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# 1.2 Key XTrackCAD Features

- Annotate with text and notes

- Automatic easement calculation

- Create Custom Designed Turnouts and Structures

- Create parallel straight and curved tracks

- Delete objects

- Describe objects

- Draw lines, arcs, polylines and polygons and filled polygons or circular shapes (for showing river edges etc.)

- Draw table edges, Bench-work and dimension lines

- Elevations, grades and profiles

- Extend (or shrink) a segment by dragging its Endpoint

- Extend a segment with a curve (or straight)

- Generate parts list for all or selected areas of the layout

- Hand-laid Turnouts

- Helix track

- Hot Bar for Turnout and Structure selection

- Join any two tracks

- Move and rotate any group of objects

- Ninety-nine drawing Layers

- On-line demonstrations, extensive help, tips and error message explanations

- On-screen ruler for measurements

- Panning and zooming via a map window and also in Pan/Zoom Mode

- Price lists can be entered to allow the layout to be priced

- Printing in any scale (up to 1:1) at any position and angle

- Straight and curved flex-track segments

- Supports any scale

- Track circles and tangent tracks

- Train Simulation

- Tunnels (hidden tracks)

- Turnouts, crossings (and sectional track such as Atlas Snap-track)

- Turntables (user defined diameter)

- Undo the last ten commands

- Zoom in and zoom out of the drawing area