There are about 250 libraries of objects available to include in your layout plan, and you can create shopping lists of items to purchase to complete the realization of your layout design. Rail Modeller Pro is designed specifically for MacIntosh computers, and is available at the Mac App store. MacOS users are no longer left out or forced to use a PC emulation program to design layouts. Hand-laid rail is not for the casual hobbyist, but if you are currently or thinking of hand-laying, this is a tool, a FREE tool, that you should check out. It creates templates that you use to underlay your rail and ties to create custom configurations that look just like the real thing.
Templot is a utility for people who lay their own rail. Most of them use a library of different manufacturers track products to create a layout plan.
#Railmodeller pro demo software#
Templot is unique among the software packages. There are other options, but the price ringing in at $79 at time of writing for one scale might prompt you to look very carefully at this feature set to insure you’ll get the bang-per-buck that you desire. Aside from non-trivial pricing, what sets RR-Trak apart is the you select which scale you wish to use, and the base priced RR-Trak is configured for that scale only. RR-Trak is another Windows specific program. Trax is a web-based planning tool, which means that it’s accessible to Chromebook users as well as Linux and Apple based computers.
#Railmodeller pro demo install#
The above software programs all install on your local PC.
#Railmodeller pro demo full#
A limited version is available for free, but the very full feature set would cost you $125 US at time of writing. You plan point to point locations, and 3rd PlanIt can create the curves, including easements, for you. One great feature of this software is its curve fitting ability. XTrkCAD current version is 5.1.2aģrd PlanIt is another software package that has been around for some time. It’s totally free and available on the opensource site SourceForge. XtrkCAD has one big advantage over the other software reviewed here. Other features of individual packages also include scenic items which can be visualized and moved around when displaying the layout. In fact, most packages that have been developed and improved over the past ten years have an almost bewildering array of options and features, the exploration of which could almost be a hobby in itself! The basic feature set of all the below includes a set of sectional and flexible track libraries, copy and paste sections of track plan, zoom in and out viewing, and automatic joining of track sections. Track planning software is not new, by any means. Well, maybe not completely gone, but certainly high on the list of candidates for extinction! Today, the absence of a computer in a household is a rarity, and many hobbyists can even count on having one completely dedicated to their use. In fact, it’s not even your grandfather’s pencil and ruler! Gone are the days of spiral bound notebooks filled with sketches of layouts, painstakingly drawn with pre-80’s graphic technology (pen, ruler, French curve, turnout templates, etc.).
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