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Version 8 offers you unparalleled design capabilities for your railroad layout. Built on a strong, innovative set of design tools, the new 3D terrain and landscape features let you really visualize your layout like never before. Its powerful Dynamic Design Tools™ let you quickly build precise track of any design. And a comprehensive suite of 3D Object Design Tools let you craft buildings, rolling stock, equipment, automobiles, cranes, boats and just about anything you can imagine.
High-speed, textured, 3D rendering brings life to your track
plan. You can position your viewpoint at any location to evaluate your design.
And when you're done, you can print 1:1 Cross-Sections so you can cut bulkheads
for the terrain you've designed. 3rd PlanIt is a complete package, from CAD
design, to simulation, to aids for building your design. Take a tour through Gerry Baldwin's HO layout, complete with backdrop, tunnels, rolling stock, terrain and buildings. He's even entered his layout room in detail, complete with desk and chair, carpeting and transparent windows, With 3rd PlanIt, you can plan your layout to whatever level of detail you like! Click to play movie, 75Mb The Standard Library with Automatic Rescaling makes all objects available in all scales so you can easily place buildings and rolling stock in any scale drawing. This allows you to easily use buildings designed for another scale in your track plan as placeholders, or templates for scratchbuilding.
Modelers who enjoy detail can explore the limits of their imagination with 3rd PlanIt. As shown in Sunrise Feed Mill, you can model any object to any level of detail that you find satisfying. Scratch builders can design each piece and fit a model together before cutting any wood or plastic - and print 1:1 plans from which to fashion the pieces. To learn more about 3rd PlanIt, download this Tutorial (2.1 Mb) in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF). If you don't own the Acrobat Reader, you can download it from Adobe.
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Other recent additions allow you to rotate, tilt and roll objects around their
centers. The new Multi-Sense User Interface offers every
user a work environment they find preferable. If you're a user of AutoCAD*
or another program with a "Click-Move-Click" interface, you'll be right at home
on this new version of 3rd PlanIt. In its standard mode, you can free intermix
"Press-Move-Release" control with "Click-Move-Click". Or, you can set
the program to use only a single interface style, optimized for familiarity and
convenience.
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