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EarsAreAlight

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  1. The layout editor is actually quite good once you get used to it imo, and based on the new named page "tab" feature, I've redone my two point motor equipped boards into one "layout" file so that my full loco roster can be available to run on both. Although I had to redo one from scratch because there isn't a transfer between layouts function (slightly annoyingly), this didn't actually take long. And from now on I will just take care to continue the happy accident of not having any accessory decoders with the same address on different layouts. See below for what you can end up with (as screenshot from an iPad Pro). Pretty happy with this given I've only had the new app about a week and haven't really had time to play with it properly...
  2. Ah well, in that case a couple of ICE3s and/or some regional trams? I have one Trix regional diesel tram with video doors - little clips of people running to get on or off - very fancy and couldn't resist it when I saw it in a shop in Basel about a year back...
  3. Like the look of what you've built. Maybe next time I have reason to be in Yorkshire I can bring some double-decker SBB stock to run round your "shed"? No space here to use them. And I also have a couple of videoloks...
  4. Thanks, Alan. I used snap to grid initially and then nudged the ones that looked a bit wrong later. It's also easier doing adjustments with an Apple pencil on an iPad Pro than fat fingers on an iPhone! One other tip - use the straight sections defined as objects as anchors for the track curves if you want a curve to lead somewhere but then straighten out. See the very slightly darker line in the bottom-most siding above - that is a short straight being used to anchor the curve from the point.
  5. I've not really used it in anger yet but the new app looks to be more flexible in the long run. I do miss the photo as a background feature, not least since I'd just spent some time doing layout backgrounds for the old app. But that and the current lack of text labels aside, it is possible to do control boards quite neatly with a bit of perseverance. See below for an example which i knocked up yesterday for my newly acquired layout... The tip for rotating points etc is to tap the point you want to rotate then hold and tap with a second finger elsewhere and rotate. But crucially, move the finger above the point to the side while still twisting - that way you can see where it ends up. Also, you can move your fingers further away, and just like a lever effect, your adjustments become more precise.
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