I apparently missed this earlier. It provides helpful information I need for my own easement creation. I recently saw a video on another site on creating easements manually with actual track. I wonder if those rules of thumb would work in anyrail 6. Thank you for what you do Paul. Mike
Michael, I'm starting on an easement video but AnyRail doesn't make it easy. And, on top of that, I'm no expert but I think that with the help of some info from another RUclipsr who isn't going to publish his video, I think I can come up with something that is slightly helpful. Hopefully I will get it online in a week. Dave
In Video 5 at about 6:15 you disconnect and shorten the left sloping track segment. I can't see where/how you performed the "disconnect" before moving the end. To simulate the same action I need to highlight, right click and select "disconnect" from the drop-down. Thanks, PHIL (love the videos so far!)
Hi, I'm not sure what you mean. When you want to curve a piece of flex, you just need to put in the angle of the curve and its radius. Just for the heck of it, I just tried making the radius as small as 0.5" so I guess you can go that small to thousands of inches. Either right click on a piece of flex and select 'curve flex' or usr the 'curve flex' button at the top of the screen, enter your two values and you're set. Dave
Mike, As I show in Video 4, just grab the end of the track, the arrow part at the end, with a left mouse click. Then drag your mouse to where you need the track to end. If you want the track to move in a straight line, hold down the 'Shift" key. This only works with flex track. Much easier to see how I do it in Video 4 than explain it. Dave
I realize you can stretch and shorten the track in the CAD. The actual physical track is a certain length you can't physically stretch the track. You can shorten the track by cutting it. My problem is why show something that cannot be done in the real world?
@@mikedulle1149 Mike, uh, well of course you can't lengthen a piece of flex track in the real world! I never implied you could. The whole point of being able to lengthen the track in CAD is so you don't have to draw in the individual pieces. It's a time saver. You make the track the length you need, click on it, look at the bottom of the screen, see how long it is and then divide the length of the track by however long your flex track pieces are. You can add up all the track lengths that way and get a total of the amount of track you need, plus aor minus a percent or two. I would imagine that 99% of AnyRail users would do this instead of putting in individual pieces of flex. I even mention that in one of the videos. If you want to put in individual pieces of flex, by all means do so, but don't accuse me of trying to do the impossible or that I am encouraging someone to do the impossible like stretching a piece of flex longer than what it is. How would you do that anyway? My videos give you information on how the program works for one type of track, Walthers, and it is up to you to take that information and apply it to whatever you are doing. If the ability to stretch flex track in a CAD program offends you, don't blame me, contact AnyRail with your concern. I'm just pointing out what you can do with the program and how it can help with your design. I have no affiliation with the AnyRail folks whatsoever, I'm just trying to help people who have never used a CAD program before (and CAD is very confusing when you first start using it) and that includes all of the little design tools that I can find. Hope this helps answer your concerns. Dave
It is better to stay in the real world than fantasy land. To me it is better use track pieces as they are and avoid a lot of extraneous calculations. By the way the list of materials is of no use at the end of the design. One must follow the KISS principle.
@@mikedulle1149 Mike, here’s the real world reality of this discussion, does it work for you? Then that’s the way for you to work. Me, personally, I’ll stretch the track and I suspect the large portion of users will. Like I said, if you don’t like that method, fine, but that’s no reason to not show that the method exists. It’s your program and you can use it the way you want. It’s my program and I’ll use it the way I want and I’ll tell others that that design feature exists. If they want to use it, great! If not, then, great! I don’t care. But I won’t ignore it because it’s ‘not the real world’. It’s CAD. CAD allows you to stretch, curve and try different things. It’s why CAD programs exist. There might be other things I discuss that you don’t like. But if it’s in the program, I’ll point them out for others to decide if it fits their reality. That’s not for me, or you, to decide. I just tell you what the program can do and you can take it from there. End of discussion. Hope your design turns out OK. Dave
Hi Mike, not sure what you mean by 'liberties' but if you watch video 4, 'Working With Flex Track', at 1:34, I explain how to do what you are asking about. The series of videos tend to build on concepts described in earlier videos, not always, but usually. Dave
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I apparently missed this earlier. It provides helpful information I need for my own easement creation. I recently saw a video on another site on creating easements manually with actual track. I wonder if those rules of thumb would work in anyrail 6. Thank you for what you do Paul. Mike
Michael, I'm starting on an easement video but AnyRail doesn't make it easy. And, on top of that, I'm no expert but I think that with the help of some info from another RUclipsr who isn't going to publish his video, I think I can come up with something that is slightly helpful. Hopefully I will get it online in a week.
Dave
In Video 5 at about 6:15 you disconnect and shorten the left sloping track segment. I can't see where/how you performed the "disconnect" before moving the end. To simulate the same action I need to highlight, right click and select "disconnect" from the drop-down.
Thanks, PHIL (love the videos so far!)
WhAt are the designations for a curve ? 4 and 3/8 inches ? To 77 inches ? Can you explain this
Hi, I'm not sure what you mean. When you want to curve a piece of flex, you just need to put in the angle of the curve and its radius. Just for the heck of it, I just tried making the radius as small as 0.5" so I guess you can go that small to thousands of inches. Either right click on a piece of flex and select 'curve flex' or usr the 'curve flex' button at the top of the screen, enter your two values and you're set. Dave
How is it possible to shorten and lengthen track?
Mike, As I show in Video 4, just grab the end of the track, the arrow part at the end, with a left mouse click. Then drag your mouse to where you need the track to end. If you want the track to move in a straight line, hold down the 'Shift" key. This only works with flex track. Much easier to see how I do it in Video 4 than explain it. Dave
I realize you can stretch and shorten the track in the CAD. The actual physical track is a certain length you can't physically stretch the track. You can shorten the track by cutting it. My problem is why show something that cannot be done in the real world?
@@mikedulle1149 Mike, uh, well of course you can't lengthen a piece of flex track in the real world! I never implied you could. The whole point of being able to lengthen the track in CAD is so you don't have to draw in the individual pieces. It's a time saver. You make the track the length you need, click on it, look at the bottom of the screen, see how long it is and then divide the length of the track by however long your flex track pieces are. You can add up all the track lengths that way and get a total of the amount of track you need, plus aor minus a percent or two. I would imagine that 99% of AnyRail users would do this instead of putting in individual pieces of flex. I even mention that in one of the videos. If you want to put in individual pieces of flex, by all means do so, but don't accuse me of trying to do the impossible or that I am encouraging someone to do the impossible like stretching a piece of flex longer than what it is. How would you do that anyway? My videos give you information on how the program works for one type of track, Walthers, and it is up to you to take that information and apply it to whatever you are doing. If the ability to stretch flex track in a CAD program offends you, don't blame me, contact AnyRail with your concern. I'm just pointing out what you can do with the program and how it can help with your design. I have no affiliation with the AnyRail folks whatsoever, I'm just trying to help people who have never used a CAD program before (and CAD is very confusing when you first start using it) and that includes all of the little design tools that I can find. Hope this helps answer your concerns. Dave
It is better to stay in the real world than fantasy land. To me it is better use track pieces as they are and avoid a lot of extraneous calculations. By the way the list of materials is of no use at the end of the design. One must follow the KISS principle.
@@mikedulle1149 Mike, here’s the real world reality of this discussion, does it work for you? Then that’s the way for you to work. Me, personally, I’ll stretch the track and I suspect the large portion of users will. Like I said, if you don’t like that method, fine, but that’s no reason to not show that the method exists. It’s your program and you can use it the way you want. It’s my program and I’ll use it the way I want and I’ll tell others that that design feature exists. If they want to use it, great! If not, then, great! I don’t care. But I won’t ignore it because it’s ‘not the real world’. It’s CAD. CAD allows you to stretch, curve and try different things. It’s why CAD programs exist. There might be other things I discuss that you don’t like. But if it’s in the program, I’ll point them out for others to decide if it fits their reality. That’s not for me, or you, to decide. I just tell you what the program can do and you can take it from there. End of discussion. Hope your design turns out OK. Dave
I don't get how you are able to stretch and shrink the flex tracks. It seems to me you are taking too many liberties!
Hi Mike, not sure what you mean by 'liberties' but if you watch video 4, 'Working With Flex Track', at 1:34, I explain how to do what you are asking about. The series of videos tend to build on concepts described in earlier videos, not always, but usually. Dave