The possibility to flip the layout
After spending hours on perfecting a layout it would be great to be able to flip the layout horizontal or vertical. Basically left turnouts becomes right turnouts etc-
Scheduled for major update 6.5
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Pascal Bourguignon commented
Note: If amongst the selection, there are elements that don't have a mirror specified in the database, it would be nice to still perform the flip, using the same element in the right position (without changing its orientation), but changing its color to red. Then the user may choose what to do next.
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CryptoDan commented
..the FLIPPENING!!
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Should also include mirroring of baseboard geometry.
Potentially flip images in the layout as well. -
Status Update:
Commencing the modification of all 270 track libraries to specify the 'mirror' component for every turnout, laying the foundation for the soon-to-arrive 'Flip Layout' capability.
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Alex Hammerstein commented
That would be brilliant
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Mike Harper commented
Not being able to flip a drawn layout (or a selected portion of a layout) horizontally or vertically is a real pain. Essentially I have to redraw the entire layout again - this can be many hours of work to complete. Other layout software already include this feature and while I understand it may be difficult to write the required software, please give this some priority. I note the "planned" comment for this feature was dated Apr 28, 2017 - not much progress then. Maybe I am missing something somewhere but cannot find any detail in the help facilities for this feature.
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We’re planning to make this functionality available once our new library editor - with the ability to mark up counter-parts of elements (left <-> right switch) & currently under heavy construction - has been completed!
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A mirror function would indeed be nice.
But such a function is not so trivial as it may seem:Currently there's no way for the program to know that switch A has to be replaced with switch B, the right handed variant, to obtain a properly mirrored track section.
However, the new library editor currently under development will allow to flag parts as mirror parts/pairs that would enable such a feature in the future!
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Dennis Berggren commented
If the application can mirror all tracks it's aware of it would be a great benefit. Of course if it can replace parts it would be even better!
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Gerben Wijnja commented
Just noticed that a selection can be rotated in beta 4. So you can select the complete layout and rotate it. Nice! Flipping horizontally or vertically is not yet supported though, although I can imagine that maybe not all parts are available flipped. Also that would change some part numbers, like a left turnout becomes a right turnout and therefore a different part number. May be hard to implement... The software needs to understand what parts are equal, when mirrored. And maybe not all parts are available in mirrored form? Most are, I guess.
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Gerben Wijnja commented
And also to rotate the complete layout in steps of 90 degrees please.