Main Features of XTrkCAD

XTrkCAD makes designing a model railroad layout easy. Main features of XTrkCAD are:

• support for any scale or gauge
• on-line demonstrations, extensive help, tips and error message explanations
• straight and curved flex-track segments
• turnouts, crossings (and sectional track such as Atlas Snaptrack)
• parallel straight and curved tracks
• turntables (user defined diameter and angles)
• track circles and tangent tracks
• two tracks either by moving the track or by adding flextrack
• automatic easement calculation
• tunnels (hidden tracks)
• undo the last ten commands
• direct manipulation of track position or dimensions from keyboard
• moving and rotating any group of objects
• drawing lines, arcs and filled shapes (for showing river edges etc.)
• drawing table edges, bench work and dimension lines
• annotation with text and notes
• on-screen ruler for measurements
• printout of trackplan in any scale, even fullsize
• inventory of rolling stock
• train simulation, which includes picking up and moving trains with the mouse much like you can do with your hands in real life
• up to 99 layers