Cadrail software version 6

See the additional Installation instructions Using the Demo. After installation on your computer, start the Cadrail application. Select Help Contents from the Help menu or press the F1 key for complete instructions. You can start using Cadrail after you have run the setup program to install the application onto your computer.

Start the Cadrail application as you do any Windows program. Click the Start button on the Windows Task Bar. Note: the images shown are for Windows 7 systems. If you have an earlier version you may see slightly different images.

The Cadrail version number shown may be different than yours. April 20, Version 9. November 26, Version 9. Use in combination with the center mouse wheel zooming to easily change your view.

Runrail: new Locomotive, tender and passenger cars. Now draws ties on top of fill, rails on top of ties. Align tools: the aligned object elevation is changed to match the endpoint elevation of the align to object. Auto-Align: now limited to figures with less than objects. This change lessens auto-align starting when not wanted.

Divide at Intersection: corrected problem when using two arcs that are tangent. Divide at spacing: corrected problem when dividing arcs that made the side view draw elevation wrong. Changed to follow rule 3 for turnouts see manual. Figure Create: corrected problem that allowed the same object to be defined in two figures.

Fill drawing on screen has been adjusted so that smaller fills are drawn for a particular scale and fills along arcs now match the arc more closely Object Editor Turnout Property: added warning to figure editor- "slopes dont match". Now checks for rule 3 page 92 man compliance when set turnout prop first two objects should be straight leg of turnout, object 3 is the diverging leg. Turnouts will work with Runrail for Wyes, however they do not work properly with the Turnout tools on the Figure tool bar.

Print Dialog: object labels are no longer shown in the preview to avoid clutter and improve speed. Turnout drawing in Screen: now objects using the filled track style are drawn so that the fill for the diverging leg does not cover the straight leg track track for the straight leg is drawn last, over the fills March 25, Version 9.

Object Editor Dialog and Drawing Manager : - Spirals - changed behavior for updating other variables when the radius, length, or delta of the spiral is changed. Now the length or radius will remain constant and a new delta angle calculated when the length or radius is changed. When the delta angle is changed, the length remains constant and the radius is revised.

In this fashion you can specify a Length and Radius for your spiral and see the required Delta angle between the spiral tangents. If you change length xy, the elevations of the object endpoints are maintained while the grade changes. If you change length xyz, the grade is maintained while the elevation of the endpoints change. Corrected problems with drawing tools: - Vertical Line Tool: corrected problem when used with Get End. Printing: changed grid line width when printing to make the grid more visible.

Corrected problem with editing locked objects: some tools did not ask if you want to unlock a locked object prior to editing i. This condition produced an error message with some tools error 9.

Now, if you delete an object from a locked figure, the parent figure will be unlocked. All Line, Circle and Spiral tools are now full 3d aware. In past versions, for some tools, the elevations were not calculated. Now, for example, when you fit an arc to two tangent lines, the elevation z coordinate is calculated based on the elevations of the existing lines.

When possible, the existing grades are maintained, i. New Layers Treeview and Toolbar. Makes temp figure that can then be manipulated with figure tools.

The borderless form style used in previous versions of Cadrail 10 disables some windows features. The affected features other than cosmetic involve multiple monitors and application resizing.

If you wish to restore the features turn off the Borderless Form option. If no object is found where clicked the rectangle is begun. If an object is found it will be selected. A rectangle is begun from the clicked point weather object is there or not. Once the Rectangle is defined the objects totally enclosed within the fence will be selected into a temporary Figure group.

If any Object in a Figure is selected, the entire Figure will be selected. After selecting object other tools such as Freehand Move, Delete, Copy, etc can be applied to the temporary Figure. Continue clicking to create a polygon fence surrounding the objects you want to select.

After the Polygon is complete click the RMB to close the fence and select the enclosed objects. Selecting Groups of Objects 3 ways. Get End, Get Object. Fence begins at click point whether object is found or not. When an object is found at the click point a temporary list of Objects Figure group is begun. If a tool is immediately selected the toolbar snaps back to upper left. Only does new quick optimize during save as was save and save as. Much faster now. If you get an out of memory error on your system then you need to do smaller sizes.

We have arranged the toolbars more compactly and removed duplicate functions. So in a way nothing has changed Cadrail is just more compact. Main menu item View removed. Old dialog still available on bottom toolbar. Hot keys F2-F9 are still active.

Main menu item Help removed. Use top tool buttons upper left. F1 Hot key still active. RMB click controls for individual tool help. Use Drawing Manager Properties Tab. Auto-Select tool removed. Proved more confusing than useful. Pictures drawn in 3d view. Picture objects and figures with picture fills are shown in the 3d view. Prior version the picture images were not drawn in 3d, just a black rectangle was drawn. Figures are filled in a fan pattern around the polygon, 3 and 4 side figures will show a single image fill.

More than 4 sides repeat the image in a triangle fan pattern. Filled figures: when the fig is a rectangle with picture fill, must define fig objects starting with bottom of rect in relation to picture bottom y axis in plan view and define fig objects clockwise. Changing the order and direction will change the picture orientation in the 3d view. So that can be used if thats what you want ie flip or rotate the picture.

Otherwise define the figure starting at lowest y value bottom in the plan view and add objects to the figure clockwise. Lights improved: choose from 0 to 3 lights using numericupdown control located on the 3d view top toolbar where the Lights button was previously. Each object is now closely fit by the embankment following curves and angles. Previously the embankment used a square grid which made jagged edges.

The previous embankment method is still available as the GRID option. You can switch back and forth between methods. In some cases the drawings that depend on the old auto-terrain methods using contours and etc don't work well with the new Fit to Object option.

Use the grid option for backward compatibility. This older technique for terrain is no longer required as the Figure Terrain Fill is much better for producing landscape terrain like mountains. This allows the new 3d view Auto-Embankment to be much more precise. The new Fit to Object embankment lets you set the desired side slope using the slope drop down list on the 3d top toolbar.

Plus you can set the embankment color for the Fit to Object option using the embankment color button on the 3d top toolbar. This helps visualize some things like terrain and track elevations.