Hi, I got Abracadata a while ago and am starting to explore it. One problem that I had was that on a layout that I had drawn based on my own, when I tried to use the use the straight track tool, I could not get it to work. I would get the cursor "+" with the little track symbol, but when I pressed the mouse button, it would not draw the track. The same thing happen when I used the curve track tool or the spline track tool. Even when I would open up a new layout to start from scratch, the same thing would happen.
The way that I managed to work around it so far was to install another installation of 3D Railroad on my hard drive. But even when I did this, the same thing happened and those drawing tools did not work on that file. So in addition to a reinstallation, I copied the elements from the previous layout and pasted it onto a new layout in the newly installed 3D Railroad and then I could access the straight track and other tools. Also, in the new installation, when I started a new layout, I could use the tools.
I think (hope) what I did was to set some switch in the program to disable those tools. If anybody who has experience with the Abracadata 3D Railroad Design software has any idea as to how this happened and how to correct it, I would really appreciate it. Until I correct it, I will be a little leery of using 3D Railroad, given that it can change like that. Thanks in advance!