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201. I wish it would...
... slightly, or there is a slight gap between them, at the boundary. So shortening or extending the transition template can be done quite quickly, often quicker than a lot of confusing questions from Templot asking which end of which original template should be used. I will have another go at this one day, but I know from past experience that every single possible case has to be allowed for (as above). Otherwise it is a cast iron certainty that someone somewhere will get in a terrible muddle. In my own development version of Templot there are quite a lot of useful extra functions like this, but I dare not release them because they are not sufficiently robust against user error. I had the irregular diamond functions in use for several years before I was able to release them in Templot2. regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> I wish it would...> I wish it would... about Templot ...
202. Ballast shoulder
... regards, Martin. posted: 7 Nov 2012 21:32 from: Martin Wynne p.s. John. Here's a sketch cross-section showing the trackbed width and cess: 2_071626_150000000.png The underlying formation is prepared with a top slope of 1:20 for drainage into the cess, to typically 15ft trackbed width. The ballast is then spread on top of that. 2_060536_020000000.png regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Development doings- archive> Ballast shoulder about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, all the files submitted to this web site are copyright and the property of the respective contributor. You are welcome to use them for your own personal non-commercial purposes, and in your messages on this web ...
... topic: 2398 Printing The Background Tracks posted: 5 Feb 2014 11:05 from: Clive Essery Hello guys, this is my first post on this forum. I decided to try and produce my plan on my own without bothering you guys with stupid beginners questions but have now hit an impasse. My background is that I am retired after 40 years of software development, which of course includes some CAD work. I thought I would eventually manage to produce something. Well I have succeeded in that area but I see that I am going to get a rollicking like Andrew- having built my track plan on an existing (but modified) map without practicing all of the features first. I guess I used only the basics of Templot and because I landed up doing a lot of rework, I have probably not done it the most efficient way. I couldn't for example get the move group to work properly so landed up moving my goods yard a template at a time many times as I moved it around the design. The issue that I ...
204. 16.2MM Gauges
... of any subsequent message from Alan- sorry Alan! Unfortunately my current stocks of 00-sf Gauges consist of one pair of 16.2mm 3-Point Gauges only; I'm currently reviewing the supply of Gauges and it is intended (if all goes well) to hand over the responsibility for the supply of the Gauges to another party in the near future- hence the very low stocks. This does unfortunately mean a glitch in the current stock availability, but hopefully this won't be for too long. I will keep everyone posted on developments as soon as I know more. So, apologies to both Chris and Alan that I can't assist with Gauges at this time, but hopefully it won't be for too long! Kind Regards, Brian Last edited on 6 Dec 2013 11:47 by polybear posted: 6 Dec 2013 11:56 from: Chris Dark Thanks Brian for the reply on here as well as RMWeb. Are there any other suppliers I could contact? Or is there a do-it-yourself way? I was hoping to have this ...
... of Template being able to do so many things. I did look on the group menu, but immediately went lower down the list... posted: 8 Nov 2012 22:15 from: Martin Wynne Martin Wynne wrote: I will reinstate the "shift group onto notch" function later tonight. I have moved it to here: 2_081712_180000000.png In 206c, later tonight. Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Development doings- archive> Did I miss something? about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, all the files submitted to this web site are copyright and the property of the respective contributor. You are welcome to use them for your own personal non-commercial purposes, and in your messages ...
... thanks for that. The mystery now is why the|| paused icon has jumped up the page on your screenshot. This is what it looks like on my system, with the icon in the bottom left corner: 2_211821_300000000.png Which leaves me wondering what everyone else is seeing? If it can move it could go anywhere. Your screen should also have a dark grey bar at the top of the video. I added that to avoid confusion between the Templot menu bar and the mini-player controls. Time and again when developing Templot I get the nagging feeling that what I see on my screen is completely different from everyone else. regards, Martin. posted: 22 Aug 2014 06:48 from: Martin Wynne Martin Wynne wrote: The mystery now is why the|| paused icon has jumped up the page on your screenshot. In the light of a fresh day I now see that it hasn't moved, its top left corner is in the same place. It is simply much smaller on your screen. Which is just as mystifying of ...
... topic: 2513 Concrete sleepers with GWR 2 bolt chairs posted: 19 Aug 2014 13:44 from: Hayfield 982_190842_380000000.jpg Thought this was a bit strange having GWR 2 bolt chairs on concrete sleepers, or were the GWR leading lights in sleeper development? Last edited on 19 Aug 2014 13:46 by Hayfield posted: 7 Sep 2014 11:57 from: gsmorris GWR and concrete and mortal and pot sleepers all were part of GWR history! posted: 28 Feb 2015 12:52 from: D Foster The distinctive thing about GW sleepers and chairs- which you might already know- is that the bolt comes up through the sleeper and then the chair with the nut being screwed down from the top. This made it a whole lot easier for them to experiment with concrete sleepers. The info that I vaguely recall on their early (? earliest) efforts was in the 1930s- probably in either the Engineer or Engineering. posted: 3 Mar 2015 21:18 from: Martin Wynne Concrete sleepers and GWR 2-bolt chairs. I took ...
... file, the first image is saved as SK81, the second as SK82, and so on. The image data is saved in PNG format so I could have used PNG1, PNG2 -- but that looks a bit like an error and liable to be "corrected" to .png by the unknowing. I did an exhaustive search of the web to avoid conflicts with other software before deciding on the range SK0 to SK9 for the new file formats in Templot2 (SK=sketchboard). Also, at one stage during TDV development I was using the arcane HCK image format -- which saves and loads much faster than PNG and is native to the sketchboard engine. In the end I decided against it so that users could if necessary do exactly what you are doing to edit the file as a PNG. Take care to rename it correctly afterwards if you have more than one picture shape. regards, Martin. posted: 10 Jul 2013 09:29 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin If you have more than one picture shape in a BGS file ...
... topic: 2159 Accessing saved files posted: 13 Feb 2013 15:01 from: Jim Mackenzie After asking for a release code for my registered copy of Templot 1 I have downloaded Templot 2 but cannot find my existing storage box and background files from previous version, how do I find these files? I wish to develope them in Templot 2. posted: 13 Feb 2013 15:46 from: Martin Wynne Hi Jim, Welcome to Templot Club. For Templot2 the default installation program folder has changed to C:\TEMPLOT_DEV\. Previous versions were installed in the C:\TEMPLOT\ program folder. Assuming you used the default folders, please navigate back there to find your data files. Your template data files will be in the C:\TEMPLOT\BOX-FILES\ folder. Your background shapes files will be in the C:\TEMPLOT\SHAPE-FILES\ folder. Full details of all the new features in Templot2 are in this topic: topic 1511- message 9413 regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may ...
... topic: 2173 Attention 00-SF track builders posted: 8 Mar 2013 09:49 from: Martin Wynne C&L have today announced a massive program of developments in turnout kits and templates, including for 00 gauge: http://www.finescale.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42&Itemid=72 What is not yet clear is whether they will be: 1. continuing their present commitment to the minority DOGA-Fine standard, or 2. adopting the 00-BF standard, which has been the traditional "scale" 00 track standard for over 60 years, or 3. embracing the latest 00-SF standard, which is rapidly gaining in popularity because of the improved appearance and running qualities without the need to modify existing wheels. Options 1 and 3 would seem to be the most likely, because many of the tools and components would be common with their EM gauge kits. Once the expensive jigs and tools have been made, it's likely that the chosen standard will be set in stone ...
... option to use the custom conversion letters a, b, c, d, -- click program> custom input factors... on the program panel window to set them up. For more information, click the? help button on the data entry dialog (top right), and then the about conversion factors button at the bottom of the Help window. regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Development doings- archive> f conversion prefix in v: 2.06b about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, all the files submitted to this web site are copyright and the property of the respective contributor. You are welcome to use them for your own personal non-commercial purposes, and in ...
... W. posted: 2 Nov 2014 13:49 from: Martin Wynne Hi Tony, Thanks for that. I had similar family pressures last winter and I know how stressful it can be. Nature having since then taken its course, I'm hoping to have a bit more time for Templot this winter. Sunny summer days are no time to be sitting at a computer, but when the winter evenings close in, some Templot progress can be made. Well that's the theory. I have also just obtained a Raspberry Pi to develop the interlocking on a friend's railway, so it will be interesting to see which gets priority. Martin. posted: 2 Nov 2014 14:12 from: Martin Wynne dharma66 wrote: Martin, I just viewed this video tutorial and I have to say, it's absolutely brilliant. I love the links out to extra information, and the inclusion of the explanatory notes. Hi Phil, I'm glad you like it. Did you watch the FBR version or the web page Flash version? Which do you prefer? Flash isn't ...
... and wonder if this will add anything to the info I already have in prototype line books, or from the 2mm society's new 'Track' book. Thanks, Arthur posted: 28 Nov 2013 22:04 from: Martin Wynne Hello Arthur, I have a copy of this book. It's an A4 paperback book with 56 pages. It is a very readable illustrated history of the former LSWR Permanent Way Works at Redbridge. It contains maps and lots of pictures inside the works, and interesting details about the manufacturing processes and trackwork developments over the years until closure of the works in 1988. The book was published in 1989 to mark the closure. There are some pictures of different chairs and other trackwork details, but generally as an aid to modelling it probably doesn't add much to what you already know. Much of it relates to the later years and flat-bottom track. However if a copy is to be had for only £2.80 I would snap it up just for the background interest. It is listed new on Amazon at over £20 ...
214. Keyboards
... F keys and the alternatives are available. Out of interest top left key is ². 99_230712_170000000.jpg The vertical bar character or pipe| key option works OK as do the others once I've found the correct combination of keys. As I implied earlier this isn't intended as a criticism, more a "should be aware of". Cheers for now John from 33820 St Ciers sur Gironde, France Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Development doings- archive> Keyboards about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, all the files submitted to this web site are copyright and the property of the respective contributor. You are welcome to use them for your own personal non-commercial purposes, and in your messages on this web site ...
215. Re: Templot Tuition
... Templot for a couple of years now& all I do is print out bog standard turnouts& track, then tack it all together on the layout board. I would like to print out the plan I want, but can't get my head round the protocol. Judging by Martins comments it would seem he has created a giant that is slowly getting the better of him, which is why a manual would be of more use to people like myself. eg., I have no idea of what I have missed with recent developments on Templot. awaiting the replies& hate mail... I can't seem to change my profile to put my name in can you help regards Peter Hepworth (sevenmil) posted: posted: 16 May 2007 10:34 from: Martin Wynne I don't often do this, but just to counter the general tone of this thread, I have just now received a message from a recent new user in New Zealand: I have to say that in the short period of time I have used it I'm very impressed with ...
... /info Yesterday I came across some old paperwork for my trade stand at the Gauge 0 Guild show at Telford 1998. That was the first time I started selling Templot. That's 17 years ago now, and it soon became clear that not only did I have to explain the software, but also the basics of building model track. Not something I ever expected or wanted to do. I have written the same stuff over and over again so many times now, that I'm weary of it. I'm happy to go on developing the Templot software and explaining it, it still interests me and I'm coding at present. But not trackbuilding methods and techniques. I spent 10 years doing that commercially, but it was a long time ago now -- over 40 years since I started. Hundreds of other modellers are building track and competent to explain it, so over to someone else. Derek Genzel's original 1970s articles are still a good read: http://scalefour.org/members/digests/dl.php?f =62-0v1-2.pdf http ...
... from NLS. It may be of interest: http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p =70194#p70194 If the contour lines are included in the printed templates, scenic formers can be cut to match them when building up the model scenery. That could be useful in 2mm scale -- maybe less so in 7mm in the absence of a barn. That assumes of course that the modern contours haven't changed over time, although hills and valleys tend not to move around much unless there have been major infrastructure developments. cheers, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> More about background maps about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, all the files submitted to this web site ...
218. Changes in 218d
... . The consequence of changing the size of that while running just don't bear thinking about. The only way would be to dump the data to a file, restart Templot, and then reload the file. I'm not going there. I have enough other stuff to do. cheers, Martin. Of course Martin, the application programmer decides how compliant the application is with the Windows specification. In general Microsoft lays out the criteria for a compliant application. It's not a critism of templot, merely a statement, today any app developer has to inherently handle dynamic resolution changes even if it's simply putting up a dialog box saying you can't handle it !!! At the end of the day it's not an issue anyway, Parallels only can do what Windows supports and there are several workarounds that will not cause dynamic resolution issues. Philip can simply run templot in full screen mode, or start it in desktop mode with a window big enough, or run it in coherence mode As I said at the start, I've yet to find an application that exhibits ...
219. Changes in 219b
... dialog is at trackpad> trackpad background options> trackpad background templates detail... menu item.) 3. Background templates can have locations flagged for external connectors in the DXF exports: 2_031310_320000000.png This has no effect on track planning in Templot. Such connectors would allow exported Templot tracks to be linked to native tracks in other track planning software such as XTrackCAD. At present this function simply allows the locations to be flagged. The actual connectors are not yet created in the DXF export files, awaiting more information from the XTrackCAD developers. 4. The shift and rotate group functions have been upgraded to allow all background shapes to be shifted or rotated in sync with the track templates: 2_111712_010000000.png 2_111715_420000000.png This would normally be used only when the entire track plan has been grouped. There is also a new function to shift templates (and background shapes if wanted) back into the positive quadrant on the grid if shifts or rotations have taken them out of it. All group rotations take place around the current position of the notch, which can be positioned beforehand ...
... topic: 3321 0 Gauge starter layout posted: 25 Aug 2018 14:54 from: Richard_Jones As I alluded to in a post on Singleton, the impulse purchase of a Dapol O gauge terrier in KESR blue livery has led to the development of a small layout, so that I can "play trains", as that day will be some time off for Singleton. So, imagine the KESR had built the line from Northiam to Rye and included a triangular junction (as mooted for the Cranbrook extension), then my "mini-layout" enviages a platform just to the East of Northiam, where one leg of the triangle meets the KESR, which avoids two lines across the road at the station. The other leg of the triangle, which provides for through running from Tenterden to Rye, is "off stage left" and has would have similar extensive facilities (!) to the West junction. For signalling purposes, "Rother Platform (West) for Rye" is within the station confines of Northiam, so that the home ...
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