The previous videos on SCARM that I once made in the mean time are 8 years old. It's about time to renew them with higher quality HD video.

This is the first video of a new series on SCARM.

If a layout starts to grow larger than fits on the monitor screen the need to pan and zoom arises. This video shows how to manipulate the screen.

Link to SCARM video 2.

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The third SCARM video is about choosing mm or inches as units, about the rulers, the workspace grid, and how to use the measuring tape.

Link to SCARM video 3.

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sieht aus wie ein Wintrack-Clone.

SCARM video 4 shows how a baseboard can be created:
- Automatically generate a rectangular board
- Free form drawing with the mouse
- Create a board by entering its coordinates in the toolbox
- How to add, delete, move line points

Link to SCARM video 4.

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In this SCARM video we'll have a look at editing ... how to select, move, copy, paste, delete tracks.

Link to SCARM video 5.

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Video 6 shows three ways to rotate a track selection.

Link to SCARM video 6.

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Make any length or any (S) curve you like with flex / flexible rail. SCARM will snap when you close a gap.

Link to SCARM video 7.

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A parallel start point can often help to lay a dual track on a predefined distance, specially for flex rail.

Link to SCARM video 8.

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Layers are of great help to keep oversight with larger layouts, or ones with height differences, or ones with many objects and/or text labels.

Link to SCARM video 9.

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We can use track colors to for instance indicate tracks that are on a different height, or to show a route we want a train to drive, or to highlight all the turnouts.

Link to SCARM video 10.

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It’s surprisingly easy to create a ramp in SCARM. Select the tracks you want to be part of the ramp and enter the height. SCARM automatically calculates the intermediate heights at every track separation.

Link to SCARM video 11.

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When designing a layout with height differences often a desire to have a bridge or a tunnel pops up. The video shows how to draw those in SCARM and how they look in 3D view.

Link to SCARM video 12.

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Hi Rudy,
very good video tutorials
I did the planning of my layout with scarm and it was fine.
Except that switches and crossings cannot be in a ramp. Even a few years later this isn't sadly possible.

Shapes or figures can be drawn to enhance a layout with, say, station platforms and buildings. These can be basic shapes like rectangles or circles, but there's also a multi-point polygon option to draw irregular shapes. Shapes can be given a height and an elevation above or below the base, and they can be given a color and a transparency.

Link to SCARM video 13.

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Text can be added to the layout to add an explanation or a legend, or to depict, say, turnout DCC addresses.

Link to SCARM video 14.

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The video shows how to:
- export a design as a bmp or jpg picture
- print the layout
- print the layout real size, to use as an underly to lay the tracks
- create a parts list (paid version only)

Link to SCARM video 15.

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