CAD Programs for designing a Layout.

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Rich:

I have only touched the surface of what 3rdPlanIt is capable of in 3D. I have experimented with the topography design elements but I didn’t go into a lot of depth and, to be honest, I got a bit bogged down trying to create visible mountains. I decided that showing the trees at various elevations was adequate for my purposes, but the program is capable of much, much more.

Also, because of some recent revisions, I haven’t gotten around to properly connecting all of the roads and the track in the helises yet.

Dave

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Here’s some more from my old layout - I even drew out the benchwork

ANd when built it looked like this:

I don;t have any overall view of the benchwork after the foam was glued on. But you can get some idea of what you cna do here.

–Randy