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Ok, I don't use AnyRail and this is one reason why, but let me see if I can explain how it works because unlike RRT and SCARM, you have to tell it what slope percentage you want, where to begin and which direction to travel. It then determines which tracks are needed to create the slope you specified.

1. Select the SHOW tab and check "Slope percentages" and "Height on slopes".
2. Open the included AnyRail example file. Here's what it looks like:
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3. Select the straight tracks on top and set their height to 4". It should tell you the slopes on either side are 25.2%:
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4. Right-click on the left end of the left most straight track, select "Create slope" and you will get a window to specific your slope parameters:
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 5. As you can see, it prefills some fields that you can change if you want. You can leave the Direction set to North or change it to West in this example. What it then does is determine what tracks around the left side of the oval need to be included in the slope. It displays the height of each track and appears to include a transition slope (1.8% in this example):
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6.  Now, if you do the same thing on the right most straight track, you'll find that if you leave the Direction as North, it creates a slope going counter-clockwise, not what you want. So you have to set the Direction to East for it to follow the curve. If you leave it as North, you can see what happens and then hit the Undo button or Crtl-Z. To see how it works a little better, change the percentage from 3 to 5 this time:
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As you can see, if you want to increase or decrease the number of tracks used for the slope, you need to change the Slope Percentage. Using 3, it took the entire left side of the oval for the slope whereas using 5, it took 2/3 of right side for the steeper slope.

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