Drawing tools

At the top of the left toolbar are the tools for everything that is not track: roads, building footprints, water surfaces, walls, labels.

Drawing happens on the work plane, in the colors of the two color swatches at the top of the toolbar. All these shapes are paths and share two things: a height turns the area into a solid, and two paths can be combined, with the -, +, and / keys.

Path

Click sets a corner point. Drag while clicking instead sets a curve point with handles. A double-click ends the path.

The second click on a finished path lets you edit it: drag points and handles, and in the property panel

• turn a point into a corner, smooth it, or make it symmetric, or delete it,
• split a segment, straighten it, or turn it into a Bezier curve,
• join two endpoints, which closes an open path, or separate a point.

Below that are the height and the fill: the fill color, or in 3D a material.

The fill can be hatched or crosshatched: lines at an angle and spacing of your choice, in their own colour and width, drawn over the fill colour. Without a fill colour they give the look of a technical drawing.

Rectangle

Click one corner and drag to the opposite one. Releasing creates the rectangle and selects it; handles and properties come with the second click.

• Shape: Rectangle, L shape, U shape, O shape, or Free path. The first four are the same frame with legs on the sides of the box; switching keeps the box. The baseboard is the same shape with a thickness.
• Corner radius: only for the rectangle.
• Free path, or Convert to paths in the context menu for several at once, turns the shape into a path with individual points. There is no way back.

Text

The new text box hangs from the pointer; a click places it. It initially has neither border nor fill. While typing, a dedicated bar appears for font, formatting, color, alignment, and lists.

• Size mode: Unlimited grows with the text, Fixed width wraps, Fixed size holds both. Dragging a handle sets the matching mode.
• Padding and border width: the margin around the text and the box's outline.

See also

• Track labels: the name on the track is not a text box
• Flex track: the circle segment does not draw track
• Material Selector