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Lasercut train points switch box

I was looking for a cool way of controlling the points on my sons model railway track. Not having found anything I came up with this..

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A cool looking lasercut box for controlling model railway points switches. This has been done using inkscape and provides a cool looking maker look.

http://trackbloc.co.uk/mimic-design/

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    Step 1

    STEP 1 – TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR LAYOUT

    Take a photo of your layout an note the location of your points. There are 4 here.

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    Step 2

    STEP 2 – SKETCH A TOPOLOGICAL MAP

    This is basically a tube station like map (ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Beck)

    but applied to the point locations. We’re not concerned with the absolute geographic location of the points but their relative positions.

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    Step 3

    STEP 3 – PRINT SWITCH TEMPLATES

    Print out the template for the points switch PCBs and cut out as many as required.


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