I'm about to deisgn a garden railroad and am looking for some easy-to-use design software. Atlas' Right Track is great, but there is nothing in G-scale, just N, HO, and O. Do any of you have any suggestions?
Help finding garden railway design software.
Aug 03, 2006
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in article snipped-for-privacy@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com, video guy -
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at snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote on 8/3/06 12:46 PM:
I use Empire Express on my Macintosh OS X system.
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There is also a product named Railmodeller for which I have the demo copy. I've seen o particular reason to change to it.
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I'd suggest XTrkCad, which does indeed have some Gn3 scale parameter files (LGB's parts).
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XTrkCad is available in binary form for Linux and MS-Windows AND is open source. I don't know if the source code will build as-is under MacOSX or not (it might if you have the proper support libraries (X11, glib+-1.2, and gtk+-1.2) installed, along with the needed tool chain (gcc, gas, linker, etc.).
I like RR-Track at
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found this software at a TCA York swap meet and initially bought it for developing a Lionel post-war O gauge layout and a pre-war standard gauge layout. The program was easy to use and it has a good library of the Lionel accessories. When I got into G-gauge, I added the Aristo and LGB track libraries and used RR-Track to design my backyard layout. I was very impressed that the software has the exact dimensions for these G gauge track systems (a 5' straight section is NOT 5' long!!), so that I was able to cut fitters to the RR-Track predicted lengths and everything fit perfectly. Geezer
I didn't see the source downloads on either of these pages can you give me a link to them? Thanks.
Use and try scrolling down the page till you get to the bit about downloads. Keith
Oops, sorry, you did say 'source'
Keith
YUP! You mentioned "open source" so I was looking for the "source". I had no problem finding the firmware.
Paul
There aren't source tarballs. You have to download from the CVS. Go to the sourceforge page above and click on the 'CVS' link and follow the information there.
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