A way to force the track into ideal geometry [Precise Alignment, Zero Tolerance]
Currently, there's a small error tolerance at each connection. When you move track around, the exact geometry is kept. This means that slowly, over time, the errors can add up. The only way to get rid of all the errors is to manually reconnect each individual track piece. It would be nice if there could be a way to just force all the tracks into their canonical alignment, with zero error. (If there's loops, this might force certain parts of the layout to disconnect. That's ok. It's the whole point. Finding what the actual error is.)
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This could be realized e.g. via a "Reconnect all tracks" functionality.
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Pretty much the opposite functionality as requested in "Adjustable tolerance for sectional track joints" -
Ok, thanks for clarifying!
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Ian Hickson commented
Open this in RailModeller to see what I mean:
http://damowmow.com/temp/alignment-demo.tracksNotice that the yellow and green section have the same number of tracks, and that all the tracks are connected into one big layout (triple clicking on any track piece selects every track piece in the layout), and yet that the right end of the green section isn't connected to the switches there.
If there was a way to force the tracks to be in the ideal geometry, then the whole thing would snap together and the yellow and green sections would be the same length.
You can also do the opposite (having tracks that are actually different lengths, but that look like they would fit, but if you could force them into ideal geometry, you'd find they didn't actually connect everywhere).
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Not sure what you're referring to with 'errors can add up' - there's no such built-in mechanism allowing faulty connections.
Maybe an example image or layout would help..