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... (zero) end of the ruler at the mouse pointer position, a right-button click sets the 2nd (dimensioned) end of the ruler. For greater precision the mouse pointer can be changed to cross-hairs by clicking the pad> mouse options> cross-hairs pointer menu item. The ends of the ruler can also be moved by mouse action, click the action> mouse actions: pad> move ruler tool end menu items. The ALT click functions will work while a mouse action is in force (including moving the ends by mouse action), but are available only while the ruler is actually showing. Be aware that ALT-LEFT click also zeroes the "moved by" read-out figures on the Jotter. If you want to do this without moving the ruler, temporarily hide the ruler (tools> ruler> hide ruler menu item). ruler1.gif ruler2.gif Other ruler functions available are tools> ruler> 1st end on spacing-ring, 1st end on notch, and swap ends, which extend the usefulness of ...
... topic: 3746 Motorizing those pesky points. posted: 20 Aug 2020 04:45 from: Andrew Barrowman I don't know about you but I'm genetically programmed to spend as little as possible on anything, model railways included, and particularly anything to do with setting the direction of points (turnouts if you prefer). My target is to keep it down to less than $3.00 (call it 2.00 GBP) for each point. That pretty much rules out just about every commercially available option. Sure, servos are cheap, but you can spend lots of money on fancy electronic servo controllers that don't even work all that well and end up spending far more than that. Absent a freely available supply of ex Post Office relays (as previously used by Martin) an alternative is the cheap and cheerful SG90 radio-control servo. Considering how good they are they are incredibly inexpensive. (But they do have a couple of issues which this does address.) If you are happy to accept that all your point servos rotate their horns through something like ...
183. Custom gauges
... gauges posted: 7 Mar 2013 12:31 from: julia A feature request: As it stands you can create custom gauges for each layout/template you make, but you have to put the settings in each time by hand. Is there any way we can have it so that we can add custom entries to the selection of gauges available in gauges menu, it would make working in H0e so much easier. J posted: 7 Mar 2013 13:29 from: Martin Wynne Hi Julia, Custom gauge settings are included in your program preferences and can be saved between sessions. To start saving your program preferences -- main> program panel, then preferences> begin saving preferences..., then click save preferences. The custom gauge settings will then be found at the bottom of the full list (gauge> other gauges... menu item). I will look at adding them directly to the gauge menu. But note that the gauge settings are always included in your saved templates, so the usual way to do this ...
... topic: 3004 // Greetings from Greece// posted: 4 Apr 2017 18:08 from: Panos Tsirigotis Hello I am a new member in templot club and want to introduce myself. I am Panos from Greece and I am an N scale railway modeller. I am currently modelling a prototype railway station in Greece and I op to handlay track. Although prototype track plans does not include curved turnouts (it was once the greek railway practise to use straight turnouts in yards and stations due to low contruction cost, and straight turnouts were pre assempled and set in place just like the RTR turnouts), I definately want the software's assistance on custom diamond crossings and easyments in curves. I attach a drawing of my track plan that is based on the prototype. I draw this track plan using Adobe illustrator I have a lot of queries regarding drawing in Templot. Truth is that begun to draw the plan but get stuck during the process. Hope that through the assistance of club members I complete my plan and start lay down trackwork. P.S ...
... : JFS Hello Brian, Many thanks for the words of encouragement! Very happy to post more, but don't 'old yer breath too much as I am "posting as I go" and I don't always go quickly! To be honest, my main motivation for posting is that I have seen lots of things posted (mostly elsewhere) which to me could mislead a beginner, or, whilst they might "work" for one simple point, would not be the best way for anything more complex. I will perhaps also include some "basic stuff" like making vees and filing switches if that is of interest. I don't consider myself an "expert" at track building but I do have the advantage of having spent 40 years learning and am still doing so! Best Wishes, Howard. posted: 26 Mar 2011 20:37 from: Brian Nicholls JFS wrote: Very happy to post more, but don't 'old yer breath too much as I am "posting as I go" and I don't always go quickly! To be honest, ...
186. Companion changes
... formats: http://www.helpandmanual.com which I have been using for years, not only for Templot. The problem is not so much compiling the content in the different formats, but delivering it and more importantly updating it in between Templot program versions. For example at present I have a new program version almost ready for release. If I delay it until I have also updated the docs, it could be many months before it gets released. I can't do both at once. If I create PDFs or CHMs now and include them with an immediate release, they will be out-of-date very soon as I work on the updated docs. I had hoped that the EWriter format with content updated from the server was the answer, especially with its ability to integrate directly with the program: "click here to see this happen now". But getting it to appear crisp dpi-aware at a suitable size on everything from a tablet to a widescreen monitor is too much of a headache. It's no good if it appears all fuzzy ...
187. RSU Wanted
... utter despair at the desperate situation the so-called government has allowed the legislators to get us into. With regard to RSU's, the main problem is one of the CE compliance required for electrical goods, involving the payment of large sums of money (read thousands) for testing in order to gain approval. The WEEE requirements involve the sum of a registration fee of £30 for a non-VAT registered trader, though the returns situation is not quite so clearcut, costwise. What IS clear is that the directive specifically includes "Soldering Equipment". The directive also specifically includes "Electric Trains and Car Racing Sets," items within scope under Toys and Leisure. What is not laid down is a definition of an electric train. Though an official was good enough to admit it was generally aimed at RTR, there is a catch. Sell a kit, no problem. Sell it with a motor included, different story- there is even one school of thought that the built result should be returned and sent for CE approval! OK, ...
... preparing the current major revision to TEMPLOT would it be too much trouble to update the scale/gauge data that TEMPLOT uses for American O scale/gauge (NMRA-O )? Hi Glen, I have already done so. This is the current list of 0 gauges and scales in TDV: 2_281828_250000000.png I have renamed the 9/32"/ft scale as "US-OLD". It's in there because 13 years ago when I was compiling the list I found it listed in an old model railroading book, including some pictures of such models. I will look out the book and post some scans. I hope this list now includes all the common 0 scales and gauges -- more of them than for any other scale. The list still includes American 00: 00-NMRA, gauge 0.750", scale 5/32"/ft. I hope that is still ok? The NMRA changed all the dimensions not long ago, so keeping up to date from this side of the pond is not so easy. regards, ...
... The running of such wheels on "EM minus 2" pointwork proved to be a big improvement on the alternative BRMSB standard (00-BF) -- not surprising when you do the arithmetic. There was no thought at that time of using "EM minus 2" for RTR stock. RTR was much too coarse at the time, nearly all serious 00 modellers would re-wheel it with Romford if they used any RTR at all. When I was developing Templot I remembered "EM minus 2", so I included it in the gauge list, and gave it the name 00-SF (" 00 special fine"). A few years ago Dave Smith at the Carshalton club discovered it there and asked me about it. He was having trouble getting good running on his club's new layout. Or perhaps I remembered it and steered him towards it -- the actual details should be in the Yahoo message archive. Anyway the upshot was that Dave tried it and discovered that all his modern RTR stock ran on it very well - ...
190. Help with printing
... inkjet printer? Is the printer driver Vista compatible? Have you tried downloading the latest driver? Have you looked at this topic: topic 227- message 1162 regards, Martin. posted: 31 Aug 2008 16:06 from: pjhill Martin, The printer is an inkjet using the "latest" Epson drivers. I have also completely removed and reinstalled it. I don't have any problems with anything else so I suspect that it is not specifically a Vista/driver issue. The background image is greyscale but I am not including the background shape in the print. In fact I have generated a new template spanning 4 pages to try and sort out what is happening. I have tried printing both colour and greyscale and unchecked any infilling to try and reduce the file size but to no avail. I suspect it may be an Epson type problem as the computer insists on dumping a series of temp files regardless of whether I spool, print direct or disable this function in the Epson monitor. It seems to pring the first page to 0kb then not ...
191. Clifton Down
... 'job', The track plan is finalised and is a direct copy taken from a 1:1250 cadastral. The double track curve at the top is the main line. Clifton Down is a modellers dream. It sits in a bowl with road bridges at either end and buildings- many of which are still there, on the other two sides. The station building is huge and I was fortunate enough to obtain 1:50 detailed drawings. Traffic covered a wide range- a branch line to Severn Beach and freight, including banana and oil block trains to and from Avonmouth. 'Monkey Specials'- trains of school children visiting Bristol Zoo came from all over the UK. Due to an incident in one of the tunnels when an engine failed and the children panicked, it was decreed they they should be double headed. I have a photograph of a formation of ex LNER teak coaches being hauled by a Castle and a 28XX. Circus and Military trains, composed mainly of Horse boxes, unloaded here en route for the Downs. As you can ...
192. Crewkerne LSWR
... a small station on the L&SWR, but made necessary in this instance by the restricted nature of the site. Main line and sidings were on different levels, and all connections had therefore to be packed into the short length where they coincided." A new signal box was provided in 1960 (off the east end of the Up platform) and remained in use for a mere seven years. Some more details at: http://www.kentrail.co.uk/Crewkerne.htm and at http://www.semgonline.com/location/crewk_01.html including info regarding Crewkerne Station's small place in locomotive history when in 1953 Class MN 4-6 -2 No.35020 '’ Bibby Line'’ came to grief there (the crank axle broke), the post-repair mismatches to the canopy being evident to this day. The book in question also includes plans of another "South-Western" station with level changes twixt main line and yard- Tavistock (North*), strictly a Pymouth, Devonport& South Western Junction Rly station (*- suffixed North in BR days), ...
... doesn't make it prototypically correct. For all bullhead track, and flat-bottom track prior to about 1970, only the nose ends of the vee point and vee splice rails are vertical. For the common sizes we use, 1:6 to 1:9, there is a twist in the rail between the C and D chairs* (3rd and 4th from the nose) to return the rails to a 1:20 cant for the remainder of their length. All the other rails in the V-crossing, including the wing and check*** rails, are canted at 1:20. From about 1970 to 2000, flat-bottom turnouts used vertical rails throughout, not just the V-crossings (and the track gauge was reduced to 1432mm).* below 1:6 the twist is between the B and C chairs.* for 1.9.5 to 1:13 the twist is between the D and E chairs. *** correction. GWR check rails are vertical, and possibly other companies' too. See ...
194. Development ideas
... from parallel to, say normal, left the rails but not the sleepers of the branch track in place. I know it was a bug, but I found it useful! Simon posted: 15 Oct 2012 14:47 from: Martin Wynne Simon Dunkley wrote: Firstly, would it be possible to switch off the radial end markers via the nice dialog box you created for output options? Hi Simon, At present they can be removed by deselecting them in the generator and then doing a rebuild. I will look to include them in the output options, but I'm wondering why you want to do that? It's useful to know where each radius section begins and ends when building the track. Secondly, when adding a platform to the turnout side of a parallel crossing, would it be possible for it to follow the turnout road rather than the turnout side of the main route? That's a tricky one, because if I adjust it to follow the loop track it will be wrong for any approach track on the same template. The platform edge ...
... or can anyone please help me get started? I have played about with a number of ideas but have come to the conclusion that it would be better to check with fellow modellers first. Many thanks Peter posted: 11 Nov 2012 10:49 from: Les G PeterD wrote:... but have come to the conclusion that it would be better to check with fellow modellers first. Peter, A good place for you start would be to visit the Scalefour Society website where there is a wealth of modelling information, including baseboard construction. You can pose questions on the Guest forum too. here is a link: http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewforum.php?f =25 regards, Les G posted: 11 Nov 2012 10:57 from: PeterD Les G wrote: PeterD wrote:... but have come to the conclusion that it would be better to check with fellow modellers first. Peter, A good place for you start would be to visit the Scalefour Society website where there is a wealth of modelling information, ...
... cure all current speed problems. regards, Martin. posted: 18 Oct 2011 10:38 from: Martin Wynne Jim installed a much larger pipe yesterday. That's the internet link between his servers and the outside world. But it's a big extra investment for him, so we are expecting some "adjustments" to the hosting fees when they come up for renewal. The result is that most users in the world should be seeing a big improvement today in response times to Templot Club. Unfortunately some users in the UK, including me, and possibly others elsewhere, are seeing that occasionally a page takes a very long time to load. As far as I can trace, this is being caused by errors on an internet link between Colorado and Ohio. There doesn't seem to be much we can do about it, other than hope it gets fixed soon. If a page takes a long time to load, say more than 10 seconds, try clicking the Stop button in your browser. Then click the original link again. The above applies only ...
197. Baseboard Material
... JFS Well, in theory, Tempot can output in DXF and CNC programmes accept DXF Input! So you can create centreline-only template for all the baseboard edges, delete all the track and away you go. Of course, there is still the small matter of all the framing etc... Cheers Howard. posted: 14 Jun 2013 18:07 from: Martin Wynne JFS wrote: Of course, there is still the small matter of all the framing etc... Hi Howard, The DXF output can include the background shapes. So for straight-edge baseboards and framing, you don't necessarily need dummy centre-line templates. regards, Martin. posted: 14 Jun 2013 19:10 from: JFS Martin Wynne wrote: The DXF output can include the background shapes. So for straight-edge baseboards and framing, you don't necessarily need dummy centre-line templates. Indeed Martin, but I am not sure that Singleton has much by way of straights anywhere And for straight edges, CNC routing might be a bit over ...
198. TDV feedback
... working. Only thing is, my background shapes are not there, so I have to reload them. All in all this makes starting Templot a rather long and complicated story with alot of message box spam that I as a user dont really want. So to keep this short, my initial feedback is: Please try to move away from program modal popups. Inform the user via other means if possible. (I can provide a screenshot from Solidworks, its a great approach) Please make saved preferences standard and ensure they include everything that is saved per session today, I see no real reason for not having it save my preferences per default without having lots of popups and extra information each time I start. (add a reset settings to standard option if you are worried about support questions) Please consider moving to a project file approach if you really have to split things into separate files. This is the only software where I have to load 3 separate files to start working where I was last time. I should only have to load 1 ...
... Hi Martin, Another thing I am missing is the grid, which can be very useful on occasion. Is there a way to have this plotted, too, or am I out of luck here? Best regards, Mark posted: 15 Nov 2011 16:58 from: Martin Wynne radiopaque wrote: Another thing I am missing is the grid, which can be very useful on occasion. Is there a way to have this plotted, too, or am I out of luck here? Hi Mark, The grid isn't included in the DXF output because normally you would have a grid available in the CAD program into which you will be importing the DXF file. If it's important to have a grid in the DXF, you could add the grid lines manually as lines in the background shapes. It would be a bit tedious but doable. Save them as a BGS file so that you can add the same grid lines to other track plans at any time. (You could perhaps create the grid lines more quickly as an array in your CAD ...
200. LNER Track drawings
... topic: 2146 LNER Track drawings posted: 22 Jan 2013 14:03 from: Nickeaston I have attached a Zip file containing some LNER trackwork drawings I have recently had the opportunity to scan. They are reductions of full size drawings and were provided to material clerks for them to order components. They are mostly dated from 1927 to 1932. There were far to many drawings to include them all so I have put in what I think are more useful ones. There are no chair drawings in the file as there were dozens in the drawings I had and it seems a bit esoteric to include them Hope you find them useful Nick Attachment: attach_1560_2146_Track.zip 486 posted: 22 Jan 2013 20:25 from: Chris Mitton Many thanks for this Nick- as my Stowe Fen layout is allegedly based on ex-GE and GN practice in the 1930's, this will be very useful. OK so some of the trackwork would actually date from the 1880s or so, but some would have got relaid even on such an obscure branch.... Regards ...
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