RR-Track Question - How to put room floorplan into RR-Track?

Pat ShediackOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

It's been probably 12 years or more since I last planned a layout using RR-Track. I have the Version 5 of RR-Track installed on my laptop, just upgraded from Version 4. We're now in the "forever home", so I'm starting to plan my next layout which will use Ross section track as I have quite a bit on hand from my last layout (6 X 15 ft). I'm planning using the O-54 inner loop/O-64 outer loop combination again since it worked well last time. I don't care for large articulated steam locomotives, so I don't think I really need O-72 curves.

Here's my question: How do I put the train room's floor plan into RR-Track? I don't want to get "a case of the stupids"and forget about 36" aisle clearance along the 25 foot wall, 36" aisle clearance along the first 16 feet of the 22 ft 6 in wall and support poles. I think RR-Track allows for multiple views for making multi-level layouts, but I'm sort of at a loss right now on how to get started.

Here's the floor plan for the train room.

The photo below the floor plan view shown above.

The photo below shows the side view of the floor plan.

I'm just starting the planning now; only have a couple of rough ideas. We have two remodeling projects to complete first before the layout gets built. One of those projects involves replacing the train room's carpet with plank flooring of some type.

If someone could help me get started with putting the floor plan into RR-Track, I wouldn't turn it down! :-)

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G3750OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Pat,

It's also been a while since I began planning Panhandle 2 with RR-Track, although I regularly tweak the plan. I do NOT have the floorplan in the RR-Track file as part of the layout. What you want to do is accomplished in several steps (at least that's how I did it). It's not totally straightforward, but it's not impossible, either:

Draw the track plan in RR-Track. Make the layout bigger than it will be. In other words, make it as big as the room. I think I saw that in your post. When you're happy with it, export it as a Bitmap.
Use Paint (or Paint 3-D) to open the Bitmap file and convert it to JPEG.
I imported that JPEG from the step above into Microsoft Visio and then added the room walls around the layout (you can also use Dia or Paint or any drawing package you know). Make sure the room is appropriately sized.
Save the new room plan drawing as a JPEG.

Here's what it looks like:

George

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Dennis-LaRockOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

You've got some nice space there! Most folks (including myself) will probably encourage you to incorporate enough room for an 072 line... even, if you have no intention to use it. I was *never* going to buy anything that required 072... until, I did!!!

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