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Thanks!

 

I'm using four pieces of software. The first is Russ Becker's RRTrack ver. 5.0. It has several modes with one being the plan view where you actually lay track and everything else, and the 3D rendering view which allows you to visualize the layout from any level from eye level to straight vertical and rotate around in 360ยบ. But to get the image from that rendering engine to another program is problematic, at least on my computer, so I capture the 3D view as it appears on screen using Snagit, a very flexible screen-capture program that is much more intelligent than the "screen capture" button on my laptop.

 

I then use Corel PhotoPaint to do any further augmentation of the captured image. For example: I re-did the area around the tunnel portals since RRTrack doesn't render them very well.

 

The structural plan and all the OSB cutting designs were all done on CorelDraw X5, which is a nice vector drawing program like Adobe Illustrator. It's not cad-cam and will not output machine readable cutting instructions, but it does have excellent scaling and measuring features. I've also used CorelDraw to "sketch" in any details that are not so easy to create in a bitmap based program.

 

I have fun with the 3D rendering since it really lets me play with scenic treatment and helps define where buildings and structures will lie and at what elevation.

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