RevellSlotTracks Help - Controls
Menu Bar
The menu has the following options:
- File - file operations
- Item - selected track piece operations
- Help - additional information
Top Line Information
Appearance - selects the appearance of the track pieces
Measurements - changes the units where measurements are displayed
Track Piece Selection Toolbox
This toolbox has four (4) tabs arranged vertically along the left side of the main program screen.
- Track Pieces - 2-lane: Buttons for each regular track piece type
- Attachment Pieces - 2 lane: Buttons for track aprons and fences
- Track Pieces - 2-lane: Buttons for various 4-lane combinations of track pieces
- Backgrounds: Buttons for various 1-foot patterns
Tabbed Layout Screens
These tabbed screens are where the track layout design happens.
- Summary (Stats) tab: Shows track pieces and attachments used for each layout and totals vs. available inventory.
- Tabs 1-8: Layout tabs, each tab defaults to a 2-lane layout
Each layout tab screen contains:
- Layout name - edit as desired
- Display scaling - move the slider to magnify or demagnify the layout area
- Rotation - use the dial to change the layout orientation on the screen
- Align screen with track - keeps the track end (append position) oriented left-to-right
Mouse Controls
With toolbox track piece selected, click on open layout area to append that piece to the layout
With toolbox track piece selected, click on existing track piece to replace that piece with the one in the toolbox
With toolbox track piece selected, double-click on existing track piece to insert the toolbox piece before the existing layout piece
With toolbox attachment piece selected, click on existing track piece to add the attachment to the track piece
With toolbox background tab active, click on sesired background button to change the background grid
Left-click and hold on "anchor" track piece and drag that piece to a new screen location to adjust layout position
With mouse cursor over a layout track piece, right-click to activate the pop-up menu
- Append will bring up the dialog to add a track piece after (downstream) the selected track piece
- Insert will bring up the dialog to add a track piece before (upstream) the selected track piece
- Replace will bring up the dialog to replace the selected track piece
- Attach will bring up the dialog to add atttachments (aprons and fences) to the selected track piece
- Banked will bring up the dialog to modify an existing banked curve (no action on non-banked pieces)
- Set Elev X will change the elevation of the selected track piece(s)
- Delete will remove the selected track piece and all of its attachments