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Vintage64
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« on: July 24, 2008, 11:11:41 PM »
I wish I could add curved elements of radii that are not available from the manufacturer. That way I can draw a R8' parallel to the Roco R9. The R8' would be layed as flex of course.

The same functionality could be useful for straight track when for instance I want to offset a track by the distance between parallel track (61.6 mm in Roco). Again the execution would be in flex.

Finally I would like to introduce a dual or triple track element of lets say 100 mm lenght that has two or three parallel tracks that my track work can snap to.
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santerdam
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2008, 11:34:00 PM »
Vintage64, you can make a kind of library yourself. Just create a new trackplan and place any rails or combination of rails you want to use frequently. Save this file as "my-library.any".

When you start working on your target trackplan, you start AnyRail a second time. So you have two AnyRail windows open. You can select any track-part in your library-plan, copy to the clipboard, switch to the target-plan and paste from the clipboard.

Good Luck,

Sander
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Vintage64
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« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2008, 03:30:08 AM »
Sander,

I am doing this already but thanks for the reply.

Choosing items from the floating library window would make it so much easier though.

Thomas
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David
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« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2008, 08:55:21 PM »
This would be quite complicated to implement right now!
Still, we're considering some way to store your own objects and reuse them more easily.

David.
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David Hoogvorst
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Vintage64
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« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2008, 11:30:49 PM »
It doesn't have to be fancy. How about a XML file that the user can edit? Straight and curved elements only.
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