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Talking T Gauge
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oztman
Joined: 14 Jan 2009
Posts: 34
Location: Sydney, Australia
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 Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:04 am Post subject: Track planning software |
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As a way of filling in part of a hot Sydney afternoon I created a T gauge library for the Railmodeller track planning software (only for the Mac). The library contains three pieces: 60 mm straight; 120 mm 30 degree curve and 132.5 mm 30 degree curve. It seems to work OK....
If anyone would like a copy please drop me a message and I'll send you the library file - it's only 4k.
Edit: I've assumed that the total track width, including roadbed, is 8 mm.
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Z scale, but very curious about T - and who knows? |
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rmyers
Joined: 19 Nov 2008
Posts: 73
Location: Evanston, IL USA
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject: Re: Track planning software |
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| oztman wrote: | As a way of filling in part of a hot Sydney afternoon I created a T gauge library for the Railmodeller track planning software (only for the Mac). The library contains three pieces: 60 mm straight; 120 mm 30 degree curve and 132.5 mm 30 degree curve. It seems to work OK....
If anyone would like a copy please drop me a message and I'll send you the library file - it's only 4k.
Edit: I've assumed that the total track width, including roadbed, is 8 mm. |
The roadbed is 12.5 mm. When you have the two radii, they abut.
For me it was a cold Chicago afternoon, but I've done something similar with XTrkCad. The param file I did includes fractional length straights and curves, as well as 132.5mm radius 'snap-switch' type turnouts. All this is purely speculation, but it allows me to play with layout design. I've also applied patches to the scale file so that 1/450 is recognized. I'm intending to add NMRA style turnouts too, but I have to convert the measurements. I haven't pushed the changes back to XTrkCad yet, but if anyone is interested, I'll email them.
Bob |
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