XTrkCAD is a CAD program for designing model railroad layouts.
Using it, you can
- Design layouts in any scale and gauge,
- Use the predefined libraries for many popular brands of turnouts to help you get started easily,
- Add your own favorite components,
- Manipulate track much like you would with actual flex-track to modify, extend and join tracks and turnouts,
- Test your design by running trains, including picking them up and moving them with the mouse.
- At any point you can print the design in a scale of your choice. When printed in 1:1 scale the printout can be used as a template for laying the track to build your dream layout.
- Learning XTrkCAD is made easy with the extensive on-line help and demonstrations.
XTrkCAD is available on Windows and on LINUX. Being an open source project, you won't even have to pay for it!
Getting Started
To get a good introduction on the possibilities of
XTrkCAD, check out our
Beginner's Tutorial.
News
June 16, 2008
XtrkCadReader is an addon software for
JMRI∞ that allows you to import your
XTrackCAD designs for use in their PanelPro application.
December 23, 2007
We're pleased to announce the availability of
XTrkCAD Version 4.0.2
Major changes in this release are:
- new help system. The built in help system has been converted to much more flexible and widely used HTML format. With many new graphics and extensively rewritten text the help information is now up-to-date with recent development.
- the wheel on a wheel mouse can now be used to zoom in and out on a layout design.
- your personal layer color settings are now stored in your preferences. This allows you to apply the same settings on each individual layout you design.
- many new and updated parameter files have been contributed to this release by Ralph Boyd, Dwayne Ward, Casey Sterbenz and others.
Download this release by using one of the buttons above.
To get the current version of
XTrkCad just use one of the buttons in the "Contents" box above, or go to the
Download page∞ and download the version for your system.
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