new to using Scarm

I would be interested in an on line real time tutorial on SCARM..

from setting a room to laying track...

anyone out there able to set up an online class?

Even possible for a small donation.....

I really want to learn

I did this and it took me an hour..but its not in a room

really quite pathetic in my opinion

There are video tutorials linked on the SCARM blog. Also on youtube. There are tips and techniques on the SCARM website also.

At the top of the library selection on the left side is a small triangle. Selecting that opens the available libraries. Select figures at the bottom. Now you can draw shapes.

Select polygon. Using the mouse and the grid & rulers, click on the start of drawing your room or space dimensions. For example, click at 0,0, then move the cursor to your next point, let's use a 10 x 12 room, so, 120 inches on the Y axis and left click the mouse to place a point.

Then move the mouse to 144" along the X axis and left click for the next point. We have 2 walls now.

Next move the cursor to X=144, Y=0 and click again. Now there are three walls.

Finally return to 0,0 and right click to close the polygon. Now there are 4 walls.

Everything is in inches, so you'll need to convert your room measurements.

A properties box will appear. Select vertical position 0, height .015, and color as translucent.

Click ok and you now have an outline of the room measurements. I used a polygon for this to demonstrate the technique for any shaped room.

Next, select tools from the menu at the top, select toolbox, and select baseboard.

Now you can create your benchwork. Europe calls it baseboard. That is the next lesson.

Click on Help in the SCARM menu and select one of the choices.

Moonman was correct for drawing a rectangle, if you want to actually design your table top / baseboard then there is a seperate set of tools for doing just that and it is pretty simple.  Look for How to create baseboard in the tutorials or look at the little tutorial I have attached.  Russ

 On the other hand you can design track freely, and build a base "shape" in "figures" after, to find out if its all really feasible.

The basics of each skill set will only take a bit to learn, and really is simple. Real skill happens with time, and a bit more effort.(like most things)

OK. a few ways you could have built that so.. Have you: "Moved" a piece? Moved one, and got it to "auto-connect" to another by touching ends arrows till they change to colored arrows? Touched any track end arrow, and built a new piece there?

I'm thinking of changing my cursor. The "arrow cursor" seems to "get in the way" of track heights, and track end arrows color change.

ChessieFan72's posts seem to possibly be having issues. I got email alerts, but find no post here, nor saw any apparent reason for edit/moderation. His input on SCARM is normally grade A too.

Adriatic,

I see the same thing. emails and no posts.

I asked him to put up the link to his tutorials again to help with some the questions that have been asked lately.

Hey Gang,

For whatever reason, the threads with my tutorials were deleted. I need to recreate them from scratch, so it will take a day or two. In the meantime, look through this thread for my post with a tutorial on creating a baseboard with absolute coordinates.

https://ogrforum.com/t...66#21562329688628766

Stewart, read your past tut on absolute on baseboard, very clear, thanks.  Question, how did you do the Horseshoe Curve landscaping without the track showing (shown in grey on the plan)?  Thanks.  Russ

Russ, Ctrl + left click on multiple tracks and then select the tunnel icon on the tool bar.

Stewart..Back in action! Or is that traction