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Planning a four lane Ninco club track. Part 4

So we've now completed a first draft of our track layout. The next stages of the process are to....

  • Publish the track plan for general discussion
  • Produce plans for building the track

Publishing the layout

There are several ways to publish or share our track layout plan for discussion and further planning.

  • We can print off the layout
  • We can upload an image to a photo sharing site
  • We can publish the circuit report to our own website
  • We can publish to the Ultimate Racer website

We're going to do all of those things

Save layout image for printing or uploading

Saving an image is simple. We go to File > Save As and in the dialogue box that opens, change the Save as type from UR30(*.scc) to JPEG(*.jpg), Bitmap(*.bmp) or GIF(*.gif).

We can then upload the image to a photo sharing website, post it to a forum or print it off.

Publishing to our own website

Our club has it's own website, so we'll use the Track Layout report to publish the layout on our site.

First we go to File > Publish on the web, and enter the details for our website; name, URL, log-in and password. Then we can simply choose the appropriate report and click Transfer

The report is published to our website and the link can be passed on to our members

Publishing on the Ultimate Racer Layout Archive

We'll also publish our layout to the Ultimate Racer Layout Archive

First we go to File > UR30 WWW, fill in our email address and click Submit to get a password. When we've received a password by email, we can go back to File > UR30 WWW and type the password in.

Now we can use the layout archive whenever we want, just choose the opened layout we want to upload and click Submit.

Here is our track layout

 

Track Building Plan

When it comes to actually building our track layout, we'll need more than just the plan, we'll need to know the reference numbers or names for each piece of track.

Select Object Layer tool First we click on the Select Object layer button to hide everything but the track itself

Wire render tool Then we click on the Wire Render button so we can clearly see the outline of each track section

Display track reference Finally we go to View > Preferences and switch on the Display section reference (or alternatively Display track name)

Here is the plan with track reference numbers displayed

Track Reference numbers

 

Track Stocks

Our club already has a large stock of Ninco track, though not quite enough to build a track of this size.

Track stock tool We can use the Track section stocks tool to find out how much new track we'll need to make this layout.

We've already entered the track we have in stock, so we can easily see how much new track we'll need.

Track stocks

 

That's all

We'll probably refine this design according to feedback, we might also design some alternative layouts, but that's the outline of general process.

 

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