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Structure Designer

The Structure Designer is used to define structures outlines. It is invoked by the New button on the Structure Selection dialog or by the Edit menu.

The dialog is similar to the Line Drawing dialog.

The Mode Radio box which selects the type of operation to perform:

The Spacing and Division controls enable the snap-grid. If Division is non-zero then the End-Points of lines and arcs are constrained to be on the grid.

Manufacturer, Description and Part Number (#) comprise the Title of the structure. These values are used in the Structure Selection dialog and the parts list.

Import is used to import an existing structure or turnout. The structure or turnout can be modified and then saved. This is useful for adding details to sectional track.

A series of buttons allow you to pan the drawing area (Right, Left, Up and Down), Zoom In and Out and to Undo the last drawing command.

The scale of the drawing area is indicated after these buttons.

The Ok button completes the design. The new structure is added to the list in the Structure Selection dialog. The Structure data is saved in the xtrkcad.cus file for the next time you use XTrkCad. Please consider contributing this information for others to use. You can change the Parameters or Title of existing designs by using the Custom Management dialog.

The Cancel button removes the Structure Designer dialog.


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