Raily 5

Plan a model railway layout in 2D, walk through it in 3D, and know it will fit before you buy a single piece of track.

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Free for plans up to 200 objects. No account needed to start.

A layout with trains, a station and wooded hills in the Raily 5 editor

What Raily is for

You have track and want to see what you can make of it. Pick your track system and get going; at the end, the inventory tells you what you are still missing.
You have an idea and want to know whether it works. Trying variants costs nothing, and what does not fit shows at once.
You have no room for a real layout. So build it on screen instead — with terrain, light, time of day and trains doing their rounds.

Raily knows the geometry of 181 track systems from 79 manufacturers, so track that cannot physically join will not join on screen either. What you plan is what you can build. The module list shows whether yours is among them.

The first time you start it, a tutorial walks you through the first steps, and the manual takes you in seven stages from the first rail to a finished layout.

From the first rail to the finished layout

Track that fits

Draw in 2D, check in 3D: the same layout, either view, at any time
Flex track by length, radius or angle, or shaped by hand as a Bézier curve
Lay whole runs from the keyboard, each piece shown as a preview first
Snapping to free track ends, the grid and guidelines

Heights and structures

Ramps spread the heights, embankments build the sub-structure beneath
Helixes built from a curve you select
Tunnels that cut themselves out of the terrain
Viaducts on piers or masonry arches, through curves and up grades

Landscape and light

Terrain sculpted with brushes or taken from heightmaps
Buildings with windows and doors, trees, lamps, poles, roads and water
Your own 3D models from STL, OBJ, 3MF or glTF
Date, time and place set the sun and the sky

Running trains

Compose trains and put them on the track
Signals, barriers, blocks and speed limits that the trains obey
Walk through the layout on foot, or fly over it with a camera or a drone

From the screen to the baseboard

An inventory: what the plan needs, what you have, what is missing, and what it costs
Track labels turn the printout into building instructions
Print to scale across as many sheets as it takes
Lay a floor plan or a sketch underneath as a template

Sharing and safety

Export to SVG, DXF and HPGL, and in 3D to STL, 3MF and glTF
With an account: plans on the server, a public gallery
Open plans from Raily 1 to 4, and export back to the Raily 4 format
Automatic background backups

Two ways to run it

In the browser

3 € / month
12 € / year

Nothing to install, on any machine you sit down at. Plans are kept on our server (100 MB with a subscription). Cancel whenever you like.

Installed on your computer

36 € once

Windows, macOS or Linux. No account, no cloud, no internet needed. Your plans stay on your own disk, with no size limit.

Prices include tax and are billed in your own currency. 14 days to change your mind, on every purchase. Full pricing.

Layouts built in Raily

A Z gauge track plan in the 2D view — Draw the plan in 2D, from the manufacturer's real pieces

An LGB oval with a passing loop in the 3D view — Then check it in 3D

The same LGB oval with a station, houses and a train — And build the landscape around it

A small Z gauge layout covered in snow — Z gauge in a briefcase, in winter

An LGB figure eight on a hillside — Garden railway on a hillside

A large H0 oval with a station in the mountains — A station in the mountains

An N gauge oval with a yard running through a town — N gauge through town

An H0 layout with a three-track station at dusk — Time of day sets the light

A triple-track H0 oval in the mountains — Three tracks through the mountains

A wooden Brio star layout in green hills — Even wooden Brio track

Example plans like these come with the program, under File > Example Plans — open one and take it apart to see how it is put together.

New in 5

Raily 4 was a desktop program that drew plans. Raily 5 runs anywhere, including in a browser, and the 3D view is no longer a preview but somewhere you work.

A dark and a light theme, and a layout that works with a pen or a finger on a tablet.
Trackball navigation in 3D; two-finger drag on a touch screen.
Double-click a rail to select everything connected to it; shift-click to select everything between two points, and shift-click again for the other way round.
Terrain sculpting, mesh editing and heightmap import.
Raily closes a gap between two rails for you, with flex track or with your system's own pieces — here is how.

Working with Raily 4? Your plans open in Raily 5.

Download Raily 5 Or try it in the browser first