where to find CADRail software online

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I was wondering what webste I could find software to desing my layout.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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CADRAIL is available at www.sandiasoftware.com. I have used it for a number of years and would not use anything else. It makes it very easy to do track alignments, clearances, etc. You can even lay out a plan and try running a train on it to gain confidence that the plan is workable. In a nutshell, if you can lay it out without kinks or conflicts in CADRAIL, it will work in real life (as long as you build it the way you designed it).

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Depending on what you are building, there is the Atlas Right Track which is a free download at Atlas; however it only uses Atlas track in its library.

XtrkCad has a free download you can try out… I haven’t tried it so I can’t recommend it.

Unless you have CAD background , realize that learning the RR track planning CAD’s will have a steep learning code; which means - loosely translated - hard or long and boring to learn. I am willing to bet that many of the RR cad programs bought, never get used.

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I was wondering what webste I could find software to desing my layout.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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CADRAIL is available at www.sandiasoftware.com. I have used it for a number of years and would not use anything else. It makes it very easy to do track alignments, clearances, etc. You can even lay out a plan and try running a train on it to gain confidence that the plan is workable. In a nutshell, if you can lay it out without kinks or conflicts in CADRAIL, it will work in real life (as long as you build it the way you designed it).

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Depending on what you are building, there is the Atlas Right Track which is a free download at Atlas; however it only uses Atlas track in its library.

XtrkCad has a free download you can try out… I haven’t tried it so I can’t recommend it.

Unless you have CAD background , realize that learning the RR track planning CAD’s will have a steep learning code; which means - loosely translated - hard or long and boring to learn. I am willing to bet that many of the RR cad programs bought, never get used.