@AndyB
Hi Andy,
This topic isn't originally about plug track, it's about Templot track-planning and how it pops up nowadays in many places. After a bit of digging I found that the above video clip had come from here:
The author (James) is using C&L chairs, so my original post had no relevance to plug track at all. If you are reading this James, please say hello.
Yes Andy, you and several others have been 3D printing track for years. Please do post about it on Templot Club as much as you like.
I think this was your first post on the subject, 8 years ago:
https://85a.uk/templot/archive/topics/topic_2734.php
It was your subsequent posts which prompted me to get my first 3D printer a few years later and to start tinkering with the possibilities:
https://85a.uk/templot/archive/topics/topic_3307.php#p26367
However, in every case I can find, you and others have designed your track using a CAD package, and needing the CAD skills to use it.
The whole point, purpose and reason for plug track is that users can create 3D track
without knowing a single thing about CAD. The 3D track is generated programmatically by Templot and no CAD software is used anywhere in its making or in the Templot program.
As far as I know, Templot is the only program doing that, but I would be very happy to be proved wrong and post full details of any similar system (and steal some ideas from it).
I suspect the Yes/No CAD skills requirement is probably the biggest single factor in determining how and whether someone wants to get into 3D track, and I have been trying to keep posts and topics about each method as separate on here as I can. If you feel that has been unfair to your own posts, I'm very sorry. Do please post about what you are doing -- but please, please, please, if it involves using CAD,
not in a plug track topic. Start a fresh topic or continue posting in some other topic. Thanks.
cheers,
Martin.