Track Planning Software

G-force1 said:
. One other thing I haven't found yet is how to cut a length as required. No doubt it's there somewhere.
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You have probably found this by now but if not, click on a piece of track to select it, right click where you want to cut and choose Snip off. It will turn the track into two sections, and you can delete the one you do not want.

Loving SCARM
 
Cheers Rob. Actually I hadn't had time to investigate. I had found how to fix the curve short of the end though.

I'm having fun! :):)
 
I keep messing around trying to get this thing. I was told it should be in the Apple APP store. I must be looking with my eyes closed, 'cause I cannot find it for the life of me.
 
I've been playing with the gradients section. They show up quite well in 3D, but you seem to have to exaggerate them on the settings given, if more than a little fiddly to apply. It seems to want % grade rather than 'railway ratios' (1:40). I calculated 1:40 as 2.5%, have I got the decimal place wrong?
 
That was the site that I checked my calc with. Hmm! I had to bump the slope up to over 20% to get it to look right. No matter, it's really only a plaything, I find it much easier just to lay the track as I go. :D
 
G-force1 said:
That was the site that I checked my calc with. Hmm! I had to bump the slope up to over 20% to get it to look right. No matter, it's really only a plaything, I find it much easier just to lay the track as I go. :D
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Teaching how to suck eggs, but do watch those gradients! - School-boy logic, but gradients really need to be flat!
My experience is indoors at the moment, but a 'simple' rise, especially if followed by a bend, can be a killer..
 
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Used SCARM for several years, excellent for track planning. Loop and gradients shown above entirely derived from SCARM. I find that it translates well to the ground work.

I suspect that gradients a fact of life for most outdoor railways, We've hardly got a flat piece of garden. So, at least for us, no gradients equals no garden railway.
 
Quite right about Gradients. In my current line I have been using 1:40 to get round a 4ft Rad Curve so that I can get on top of the Low Level. Yes megga Trains have problems, but my largest regular Train is the Fuel Train with 3 Newquid Tanks, 1 Bachmann Bogie Tank and 2 4w Opens for Runners. All fitted with Bachman Metal Wheels. Even my LGB German 2-6-2 has no problem with this Train.
JonD
 
PhilP said:
Teaching how to suck eggs, but do watch those gradients! - School-boy logic, but gradients really need to be flat!
My experience is indoors at the moment, but a 'simple' rise, especially if followed by a bend, can be a killer..
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I have 15 meters continuous of 1:40 so know well what it looks like 'on the ground', well in the air actually. drawn on Scarm at 2.5% looks nothing like it, in fact is barely noticible.
 
G-force1 said:
Can't you download direct from their website?

www.scarm.info
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If I click on the LGB track planning software, it brings me to a page where no download icon is visible anywhere on the page. Toward the right, on the same page that lists all of the available scales and brands of planning guides, there is "Start Free Download". If I click on that it wants to download Yeti, some sort of music listening program.
 
I'm not sure if you are seeing the same screen as me. I get several sections, "Home", "Contents", "Why SACARM", and "Download". Next line down is -

SCARM 0.9.31 Multilingual 1.87 MB from 20 Nov 2015

That's what I clicked to download. I didn't scroll down to the list of supported tracks. It loads all those with the download and you choose when you fire it up first time in the top right.
 
I tried that and found Scarm in my downloads. But when I tried to open it I got a message saying that OSX El Capitan doesn't support a windows program.
 
Yes, I found that out. However, not many know that it will only operate on Windows. I am supposed to have a chat today with an Apple tech to solve some other issue that's occurring with the computer. Perhaps I'll pick his brain. God knows there must be more there than in my own when it comes to these machines.....:mad:
 
I'm still playing with this and found a couple of issues. I have points (turnouts) both on a bend and grade. It doesn't seem to let you do the grade bit all points seem to have to be level, probably good practice concerning cross-fall. The other one is I was going to upload a file to this forum for general inspection and when I look in the holding folder they are not there to load. Any clues on that one?
 
The forum probably has some sort of control on what file types can be uploaded so malicious files (eg worms) cannot be uploaded.

If a file type is not on recognised (on the safe list) it won't allow you to upload.

Just a guess and would be useful to upload scram files.
 
It does seem to be a filetype problem, and I agree it would be good on a railway forum to be able to upload such railway specific files. The way I've got round it is to export the file as a jPeg and load it that way, but that doesn't allow others to manipulate it in their own SCARM. BitMaps don't load either, probably because they are uncompressed?
 
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