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Planning a model railway layout can be an incredibly daunting task, conjuring up nightmares of graph paper, protractors, compasses and a degree of wasted time when the geometry does not work! But not anymore! The program already has all the Hornby TrakMat pack layouts pre-installed - from the simple oval to the complete TrakMat layout - as well as a selection of full size track circuits for those who require an instant track design. Hornby Track-Master has been designed to work with Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7. Safety Information: Warning. Not suitable for Children under 3 years.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Another piece of software from Hornby, which makes model railways so much more enjoyable. It allows you to design your model railway layout using all of Hornby set track, platforms and even use their turntable. It is very intuitive. You pick a piece of track, rotate it and snap it to another. TrackMaster also produces a shopping list for you with current prices, so that you know how much your layout is going to cost you.
I wish I had TrackMaster a year ago. Designing my layout would have been so easy. No messing about with the plastic 1/4 scale pieces or pen and paper. This is certainly the way to go!
I wish I had TrackMaster a year ago. Designing my layout would have been so easy. No messing about with the plastic 1/4 scale pieces or pen and paper. This is certainly the way to go!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I have designed a few layouts in my time and used the Hornby plastic quarter scale pieces (never enough pieces for what I'm doing) and their stencil from the 1980s and also no aid at all, just sketching out a rough plan and placing the actual track and experimenting with it. The trouble is, the latter takes ages to do, unless you're designing a very simple layout.
This Trackmaster software allows you to pick items of Hornby track from a menu and just move it around on the screen and rotate it to the angles that match the Hornby track geometry. The pieces snap together quite easily (not sure what "Muds" was on about saying that the software doesn't allow him to snap one piece to another if two track ends are close together) all you do is drag the track piece to the far side of the one you want to snap to and the little green elastic line shows you where it is going to snap. It's very easy. I think this would also be great for children to learn about how railway track works, although it is not a game or toy.
Anyway, whilst maybe not as powerful as other track design software out there (I have used Xtracad) it certainly is the easiest to use. The former is a nightmare just to get into. We have been waiting for Hornby to bring us a 21st century way to design reasonably complex layouts, utilising all of their set track pieces and platforms.
The results also just look nice, having used a photorealistic track pieces.
This Trackmaster software allows you to pick items of Hornby track from a menu and just move it around on the screen and rotate it to the angles that match the Hornby track geometry. The pieces snap together quite easily (not sure what "Muds" was on about saying that the software doesn't allow him to snap one piece to another if two track ends are close together) all you do is drag the track piece to the far side of the one you want to snap to and the little green elastic line shows you where it is going to snap. It's very easy. I think this would also be great for children to learn about how railway track works, although it is not a game or toy.
Anyway, whilst maybe not as powerful as other track design software out there (I have used Xtracad) it certainly is the easiest to use. The former is a nightmare just to get into. We have been waiting for Hornby to bring us a 21st century way to design reasonably complex layouts, utilising all of their set track pieces and platforms.
The results also just look nice, having used a photorealistic track pieces.
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This is an unbelievably bad piece of software. To use it feels like you have stepped back in time about 30 years, to the dawn of personal computers. The program uses bitmaps of track pieces - so when you try to move things around you get all sorts of alias problems and it's very slow. But that's not the worst of the problems. Snapping works only at certain scales. Compared to Visio (for example) it lacks all sorts of things. For example you can only have a 1m by 1m grid to help guide you. Pieces have to be rotated by scrolling the mouse wheel - there's no intelligence when pieces are snapped to each other. Three levels of zoom is an utter joke - if you're doing anything bigger than Hornby's basic track mat layout you have to scroll all over the place. You can't select a number of pieces and rotate them - each one has to be done individually. Even copy and paste doesn't work properly. No scenery, no buildings, no 3-D view. Utterly utterly useless - avoid. I'm so angry I wasted my money.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
What a Sham
I purchased this for a bit of fun, not from Amazon as I am a long time modeller and would not use Hornby Track in any case, The Software is an abysmal attempt at a PC program,... Read more
Published 5 months ago by R. Brown
Room for Improvement
Interesting that Amazon classify this software as a toy, it's not. Obviously intended as a means to design model railway layouts, it's therefore of benefit to anyone intending to... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Muds
Great software - saves so much time
The last time I designed a layout I had to use those small plastic Hornby pieces, which I think they still sell, and of course you were alway missing some bits so had to go out and... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Serious Reviewer
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