AnyRail6 Tutorial Video 4: Working With Flex Track
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- We go over the basics of working with flex track. For more things you can do with flex track and other items, see Video 42 'Tracks, Lines, Surfaces and Everything'.
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Thank you so much for doing these tutorials. I have viewed 1-4 and have to tell you that you have done a magnificent job so far. I have subscribed and I appreciate the effort that you have put into this and the amount of detail that you put into the lesson. It’s obvious that you have experience in cad but you kept this on a level that those of us who don’t can understand it and learn it. Thanks again.
Derek, Thank you. I am a little behind on looking at comments so I am going to go thru and answer in order. Yeah, I have used a program called FastCAD for about 31 years in my job (former job) as a broadcast engineer. I try to explain what I can in detail, sometimes too much detail, and I like to repeat things because, I don't know about you, but that is how I get to remember things. Repetition, repetition, repetition.
Dave
I have found your tutorials via AI Chat! Your videos and explanations are brillint. I have struggled with AnyRail, trying to figure it out myself. This is soo useful! Thank you very much for taking the time to produce these tutorials.
These tutorials really are great, it's too bad that more people aren't taking advantage of them. Thank You so much for all your hard work in presenting it. I really like AnyRail, not a hard learning curve at all and the price makes it the best track planning software you can find. Thanks again.
Steve, Thank you. I'm having fun making these because I get to try different ways of doing whatever I am trying to do. I have had to start and stop and re-record several videos because in the middle of recording I get to thinking 'Would it work better doing it this way'?
I chose AnyRail for the same reason. Easy to work with and easy learning curve. I've got a few more videos in the works. If you find a cool trick or two, please leave it in the comments for others.
Thanks again!
Dave
The Anyrail tutorials are great, thank you.
Thank you. There should be one on more details about using layers soon.
Many thanks for taking the time to put these tutorials ot there. I am finding them verry usfull indead. I am just starting out on a 'retirement' project and have purchased a UK lisence for Any Rail. I was struggeling with flex track. Untill (thanks to you) setting the minimum radius! I guess it is the difference between a £50 and a £200 licence. 😀👍
Paul, Thank you. Glad to be able to help out. I too, am working on a retirement project but it just seems to keep taking longer and longer to get started. Take care, Dave
Dave did your friend ever post the video on how to do easements with any rail 6? really like your style and tutorials on any rail, most complete out there, thank you for doing them
Hi Lyndon, If you are talking about Bob Fuller, the last I heard from him was that he wasn't going to what he did on easements. Not sure if he will. Dave
Its been said before, but I just discovered this, excellent explanation. I recently purchased the package and have gone through the first 4 video's. I would like to darken my grid but from what I've seen, I just need to adjust the terminal I'm working at. Right?
To my opinion Anyrail is very user friendly. However what I really learned from your tutorials is the way of working how to lay parallel tracks, keeping all in sync with your pre-defined geometrical requirements. At the start of using Anyrail I was pre-occupied in my mind that tracks must somehow snap to a grid. Which is obviously not the case. In your video the penny has dropped how to add parallel tracks, align the switches with the center lines, simply cut the flex track, drag the flex end and let the connections snap. When required let Anyrail automatically smooth-en the flex curves. I'm using PECO code 55 which is sometimes a bit of a challenge to "force" it into the European layout. My next layout is a combination of Dutch and German railways with border activities where locomotives are changed and carry-on their journey into the "other" country. Germans like to do things strict and exact and that needs to be reflected in my design as well. Anyway a big thank you from the Netherlands for taking the time sharing your knowledge and experience with the wide world web.
Ron, thank you! I've got a couple more videos coming up. I was in Amsterdam with family way back in 2007. We rode the train out of Amsterdam Centraal station to Paris. While waiting for our train, I spent a lot of time running around the station taking pictures. I got one shot at the end of the platform of the most complicated trackage I had ever seen. Shot with a telephoto lens it made a very dramatic picture. Unfortunately the station exterior was undergoing construction so I didn't get very good shots of the outside. Plan to return when covid is over.
Dave
@@steampoweredradio2981 Hi Dave, Paris and some big German cities also do have impressive/complicated track layouts. I guess this is because most big cities in Europe act as a hub where different lines from different directions do meet and got connected to each other. In WW2 railway infra structure was an important asset from a logistic point of view for the German army. However to my opinion the Swiss did the best job in railway engineering, technically high quality railway solutions. Nowadays some of the German and Belgium lines became obsolete and are now converted into bicycle tracks which is nice. These tracks takes you through the landscape away from the urban areas guiding you through tunnels and beautiful arch shaped bridges and off course the tracks do have a maximum slope of 3 % what makes it an easy ride.
Have you demonstrated the use of easement track when creating curves? Although I understand the purpose of this track I don't know how it should be configured with Anyrail. Thanks for these great tutorials.
Hi Michael,
No I have not done one on easements. Right around Christmas time, I was helping a fellow RUclipsr with comments on an easement video he was working on. He has not posted it and I just sent a note to him asking if he was going too. I'll wait to see what he says because he had a lot of good information in there and I don't want to step on his toes or reinvent the wheel, so to speak. I'll let you know.
Dave
Hi mate, I am very, VERY new to model railways and looking to plan and build my first layout. I have watched your first 3 tutorials but don't seem to be able to locate 3B that you mention. In addition, a lot of others also seem to be missing from RUclips. Any idea why that might be? Thanks for all the work you've put into preparing these great tutorials, without people like you, mugs like me wouldn't have a chance. Cheers Paul down in Australia..... P.S. Wish you yanks would convert over to metric ;-)
Hi Paul, There is no 3B. I was going to do it and then never did and was too lazy to go back and re-edit the video to remove that reference. That being said, I just went and listened to 3A to see what I promised and I think Video 31 will become what I promised for 3B. It will be another of my long winded explanations on how to use the precision and snap to grid functions. As for the missing videos, I think you are referring to the gap between 28 and 42. When I started making these videos I never thought anyone would actually be interested in them. I figured I would make maybe at most 10 and that would be it. So I wanted to do one that didn't fit into my numbering scheme and I chose 42 because the name reflected one of the 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' books where after millions of years of calculations the answer to life, the universe and everything was 42. I thought that was clever and would be the end of it after a few videos. Surprisingly, a lot of people liked the videos and weren't confused by my explanations and I am now getting ready to upload videos 29 and 30. I have a feeling I'll get all the way up to video 41 soon. Ah yes, metric. In videos 28-30 I mention what a pain it is going from fractional inches to decimal inches and how a system based on tenths would be good. I am old enough that I was in the first phase of 'teach those silly Americans metric' in school in the 1960's and 70's. Never sank in to any of us. Now I am too old to learn it. But in electronics I had to use a lot of metric measurements so I am not completely lost. I figure that what I show in fractional units will basically be the same in either metric or decimal inches as well. Good luck with that first railroad. When I start mine, it will be the first I have built in over 25 years. I plan on doing some videos on the construction so I figure that they will give people a good laugh as I struggle with woodworking. New videos may slow down for a while. California just re-opened and I plan to make up for lost travel time. That may include Australia in the future. Take care, Dave
Is there a Video # 14? I can find 13 and 15, but no 14.
Bob, I skipped Video 14. It is supposed to be on how to overlay track on the picture of the track plan. Every time I start it it, I can't figure out how to show how to do it without the video becoming too long. I already think a lot of the videos are too long but this one would rival 'Cleopatra' for the title of longest movie ever made. I'll make another attempt at it soon. Been sidetracked by some electronic projects recently. Hope the videos have been helpful.
Dave