Module selection
Raily knows the track of many manufacturers — too many to offer them all in one bar at once. Module selection decides which track systems you're currently working with: only the track of the checked modules appears in the Quick Pick bar.
The "Module selection" dialog.
Open it via View → Module selection… or the m key. The selection isn't a one-time decision: you can change it at any time, even in the middle of a plan.
«Module» here means track system
In Raily, a module is a track system: all the elements of one manufacturer's system, for example Märklin C track or Roco Line with roadbed. It has nothing to do with the modules of modular layout building (Fremo, standard segments).
Selecting
A click on a row activates the module or switches it off. Several can be active at the same time; that's the normal case as soon as two systems occur in the plan.
Mastering the list
The list is long. Four things help:
- Search field: typing filters by name. Press ↓ to jump straight from the search field into the table.
- Star: marks a module as a favorite.
- Archive box: the box to the right of the search field. Closed, it hides clearly discontinued modules; open, all of them are shown. Open it for a plan with older track.
- Column sorting by Source, Name, Manufacturer, System and Scale. Without a sort of your own, favorites come first, then active modules, then alphabetical order.
Where a module comes from
The first column, Source, carries an icon; hover over it and it explains itself:
| Icon | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Comes with Raily | |
| From your own module library, or your version that replaces one that comes with Raily | |
| Comes with the open plan and is not stored in your library |
Where your library lives
| Desktop app | as files on your computer. Raily icon → About… shows the Your own modules folder under "Where your files are kept" as soon as you've saved your first module |
| Browser | logged in: on the raily.ch server; otherwise in the browser's storage |
Back to the Raily version
If you've edited a module that comes with Raily, your version now stands in its place, and the in the Source column becomes a button: clicking it asks whether the Raily version should apply again, and removes yours from the library.
Saved plans keep their version
A plan you saved with your version still carries it. Raily asks, when you open it, which of the two should apply. So only your library gets tidied up — old plans stay as they were.
Opening when creating a plan
The checkbox "Open this dialog when creating a new plan" shows the module selection automatically every time you start a new plan.
About the catalog data
At the bottom is the note "Catalog data is provided on a best-effort basis and may be incomplete." Clicking it explains in detail where the measurements come from and where they run into limits, under Technical limits.
See also
- Getting started 1: Build and look
- Element info: the catalog data of a single piece of track
- Flex track: when no track from the module fits
- Inventory (dialog): which parts your plan needs
- Technical limits: the origin and accuracy of the catalog data