Ask the Experts / B&M Supports on the Single Rail?

  • AntonStengel%s's Photo

    Has anyone had success using B&M Custom Supports on the Single Rail coaster?

     

    I'm trying it for the first time now and having a brutal time. It seems everything except the perfectly centered pieces only match up from one or two angles... rotating the view leaves the 1/4 pieces or diagonal pieces very off.

     

    Example: This support seems to be intersecting the track from one angle but completely floating from another.

     

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    This is also my first time using custom supports, so it could be user error.

     

    Any advice? Thanks!

  • Arjan v l%s's Photo

    Hey Anton. Custom supports can be really tricky. Haven't done such a coaster yet, but still have a good advice for you that might help somewhat. Try to make the support connect to the track, where the track piece also connects with the next piece. The edges if you get what i mean. With (big) curves it's mostly the edges and the middle section to make a proper connection. Loopings and inversions is a bit more tricky, but the same concept as the others. You could use a wall piece to find the best parts of the inversion to connect to. Put it on the tile where the track is (not facing the same direction), but crossed and raise it untill it reaches the track. In your situation right here, wich seems like a big corkscrew to me. The best connection points would be the edges or  middle of the track piece.

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