Signals & Track How To Join Two Pieces Of Track

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  1. Boingleboeing

    Boingleboeing Member

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    Hi, has anyone found out how you can join two pieces of unconnected track, like in this example:
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  2. RagingLightning

    RagingLightning New Member

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    I'm assuming that both tracks are part of the same straight section (they line up perfectly).

    I found that setting the curve type to circular arcs allowed me to connect the two (the connection would be highlighted in blue while it is being created)
     
  3. Boingleboeing

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    Yeah, no, they are not part of the same straight section like would be nice if there was a tool to calculate the necessary curve/curves to join the two together in a somewhat cohesive manner.
     
  4. RagingLightning

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    sadly then, I'm with you on this...
     
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  5. tibbs#9402

    tibbs#9402 New Member

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    I made a simple loop. I couldn't figure out a way to properly connect the ends. However as I was trying to get it to connect, I accidently overlapped the first section. This crated a Junction. I then deleted the junction, removing part of the first section. When I tried to fill the gap and, I zoomed in and Eyeballed the placement as close as I could. The loop worked fine, even though it wasn't actually connected.

    Edit: To add, by creating the overlap, it created the correct tangency between the two sections. When I deleted it, and created the new section, it too had pretty much the correct tangency.

    Sadly the files aren't visible (although sill there in winsdows explorer), so I can't load it and get some screen shots.
     
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  6. Boingleboeing

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    to open them again go to the file menu and then recent, you will find it there, it's a know bug I have it too ;)
     
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  7. RagingLightning

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    There has to be a cleaner solution, clearly.
     
  8. GingerPitti

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    Enable "Snap to Ribbon" (or similar) in the track laying tool. Play with the snap values a little. Then start laying track from one end towards the other. It might not snap directly to the other end but create a junction a bit further down. You'll notice it finding the place to snap when the overlay lines turn dark blue.
    You can just delete the part of the junction you don't need.
     
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  9. Boingleboeing

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    Yeah I figured the blue part out, it was just deleting the junction that I didn't find out but made another thread and someone figured it out :)
     
  10. mikel290

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    eh, I remember Trainz where there were no such problems with the connection when, and here since the time Railworks as was the problem remained and has remained
     

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