Open Rails path creation in Track viewer issues

[scfe_fan]

So I'm CLEARLY doing something wrong, the problem is that I have no idea what it is. My Open Rails Track Viewer REFUSES to let me create a path that take a diverging path through a turnout. Here is what I mean:

When I put in a start path on the track, (in this case a station platform track), it automatically takes the default route through all the switches.
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This is a zoomed in view of the throat tracks I want to navigate through:
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As soon as I click on a switch and hit "take other exit", the path ends immediately at that "other exit" 3.jpg
Clearly I'm not doing SOMETHING right and if someone could enlighten me on what that is, I would be eternally grateful as I'd LOVE to be able to make activities for my routes.

Also a few things to note. YES there IS at LEAST a 5m piece between the ends of switches that back up to each other.

[R. Steele]

From the trackviewer manual:

Initially the whole path is drawn. How much of the path is drawn can be changes as follows:
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PageUp draws more of the path (until the full path is drawn)
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PageDown draws less of the path.
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Shift-PageUp will draw the full path,
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Shift-PageDown will only draw the starting point.
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Using the key 'c' will center the view window on the last drawn point of the path. It can be
kept pressed during zooming or during the decreasing/increasing the path length.

Quite often the situation you describe will happen ( why?--- don't know ) so using Shift+PageUP will draw the complete path. Than you can go from that point to the end, aligning the switches to suit your design,

It would be good to acquaint yourself with the Trackviewer.pdf manual....available in the Documents folder in any installed Stable Version.

[eric]

It's also possible you don't have a valid junction where you think you do.

Putting red or blue poles too close together left-right of each other can wind up not behaving as expected. I ran into this with the Olgilvie station throat, and had to delete some if the slip switches to provide adequate spacing horizontally.

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[scfe_fan]

It's also possible you don't have a valid junction where you think you do.

Putting red or blue poles too close together left-right of each other can wind up not behaving as expected. I ran into this with the Olgilvie station throat, and had to delete some if the slip switches to provide adequate spacing horizontally.

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Hopefully that doesn’t end up being the case. I’ve already had to change one double slip to a single slip because it was making the tracks do weird things. Gerry’s tips seem to have worked so far so hopefully it stays that way.


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