If you allow me to add to your questions :

3) Often I know where I want to start a climb and know where I want to get at a give height. It would be nice to have a feature where you can select point A, point B and give desired height at point B. I don't want to fiddle with various climb-rates as a try-and-error.

4) Please, please use a somewhat larger font for indicating the height. The now used font is so small, I allmost have to climb in my screen to read.

Thanks,

Sander 

Of course, in a 2D view, this remains tricky stuff to get right and make it easy.
But we try to do something about it in every release, and hopefully converge to an optimal solution!

1. To start with: In the next version, it'll be a lot easier to point at the purple 'endpoint' indicator. It's not so easy to let go of the principle that the height is defined at the endpoints of the track. If we'd make it possible to set the height for the track as a whole, a lot of different cases come up: "level", "level left, slope right", 'level right, slope left", etc.etc. For turnouts or crossings it would even get worse. But a shortcut key to set the height while just hovering an endpoint might help a lot.

2. Could you give an example of this? The software always tries to comply with the height differences that are already there.

3. Sure, this might be great. But we miss the concept of 'selecting multiple points'. That's why we are a bit hesitant. We are leaning more towards creating points at a "fixed height", and create slopes between them.

4. This should be easy enough.

Please keep sending us your suggestions regarding the complicated issues of working with heights!

David.

@3. I understand the issue of 'selecting multiple points'. A workaround could be to disconnect the track at te beginning and the endpoint of the climb. Next step would be to select the connection point at one end, right mouse menu, and specify desired the height at the other end of the stretch.
Feedback on the climbrate would be nice. (In the status bar while pointing a connection point, next to the X, Y and Z coordinates ?)

@4. Great.

Sander

Many thanks for that David

It's great with the height "h" key,  the only thing is that when you work on a locked height point you have to unlock it the usual way before you can work on it.

Could you add a lock height dialogue onto it?

In short, Yes.
At the moment when you want to lock/unlock a point on the track and change heights this involves 2 different processes. If it was on the same dialogue you can change height and lock the point at the same time.
Cheers,
Andrew