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There are many ways to plan a layout. One that I suggest is that you spend way more time looking at alternate benchwork designs that will fit into the area you are working with, then worry about the track after. Needless to say, if you are deciding on benchwork, you are also deciding on a basic mainline. So worry about the benchwork shape/mainline , and the style of layout you are going to have, then add the further details latter. In a room 7 by 13, I first did a rectangular layout design - water wings shaped. I didn't like this and moved on to an around the room design. I preferred a walk in style of layout so I moved to a letter "G" shaped layout. I decided this didn't give me the empire I wanted so I moved to a double decker letter "G" layout. It took me about 7 major benchwork/basic mainline designs before I settled on the look and style I wanted. Once I had made my basic decision as to the style of layout and shape of the benchwork, I then built it while looking in MR for sections of other people's layouts that would help me in building mine. I found one section I thought would work. I modified it and laid the track for it. This taught me what fit where and I was able to move on to the next section with more experience and better sense of what I wanted. I just kept this up as I went around the layout.
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