... purpose you are asking about. Sorry if I haven't understood your question, I will look at adding the grid lines proper to both the pages preview and the printed page map. regards, Martin. posted: 3 Nov 2015 12:29 from: Martin Wynne p.s. Gordon, Don't overlook the option of adding a bit of dummy track as a marker. Just because an odd bit of track appears on the printout doesn't mean you have to build it. The advantage is that you have all the functions to curve and align it, peg it onto other templates, or onto the grid (via the notch), etc. Martin. posted: 3 Nov 2015 15:19 from: Gordon S Thanks Martin. My latest layout plan is basically several parallel loops with a reverse curve allowing trains to run from a terminus out and back. This corner is where I'm working. The outer single lines are the return loop and are on a 1:100 gradient. The inner double track is at a constant height of 118mm above the datum ...

... guess an approximate width. Then scale it to correct size after pasting. To make a screen grab, press the PRINT SCREEN (or Prt Scr) button on the keyboard. If you are using a laptop or tablet computer which doesn't have that key, press the Fn+ SPACE-BAR keys. Always zoom-in to the highest crisp resolution available. One screen grab probably won't cover the full area of interest, but you can paste a series of grabs as separate picture shapes in Templot. It is easy to align them by making the image transparent and aligning it over the previous one. Once you have scaled the first one, all images will be the same size, so it is simply a case of setting the same width. Here for example is a grab from one of the 1:500 town plans (Worcester): 2_040621_230000000.png© old-maps.co.uk Ask again if you want more info about importing and scaling maps. regards, Martin. posted: 4 Apr 2016 15:05 from: DerekStuart Hello Dave/ Martin Thanks ...

... they are on a paved area) that cross& overlap one another. What I want to do is to make a diamond crossing by these two tracks. Is there any function that merges the tracks to form the junction? Thank you in advance Attachment: attach_2404_3008_Crossing.jpg 361 posted: 11 Apr 2017 11:07 from: Martin Wynne Hi Panos, Have one template as the control template and the other as the background template. Click on the background template to get its menu on the left. On that menu click peg/align tools> make diamond-crossing at intersection menu item. However, that works only where the resulting diamond-crossing is flatter than 1:1.5 angle. Looking at your screenshot, it seems that you may be looking for a much shorter crossing than that. In which case you would need to create it manually using multiple partial templates. You also need some detailed prototype data, because there is nothing standard about short-angle crossings, they vary by company, period and location. There is a drawing in this ...

... of the .box file. Attachment: attach_2748_3326_tandem_plot.jpg 472 posted: 12 Sep 2018 10:53 from: Martin Wynne Thanks Ray. I will have a look at making a better match. cheers, Martin. posted: 13 Sep 2018 19:17 from: Martin Wynne PLEASE -- NO-ONE SHOULD BUILD THIS TANDEM Or if you do, don't tell anyone that it came from Templot! Hi Ray, This should be a better match to your scan. Only the rail ends match the Marcway tandem, internally the rail alignments are different, as you can see. In scaling the scan, I assumed the track gauge is exactly 32mm. I have put the pegs on the rail ends, ready for you to use this .box file in your track plan. The crossing angles in order are 1:5.15- 1:8.93- 1:6.5 The radii are 2388mm (94") and 1726mm (68"). That's a lot larger than your quoted 60"/48" (which sounds unlikely for 0 gauge -- did ...

... is track-circuited. Straightcut Switch Blades with Joggled Stock Rails: When a more robust switch is needed, both of the switch stock rails are joggled outwards by a small amount to create a housing for the switch blade tips and so protect them from wheel damage. This next diagram below shows this alternative straightcut pattern switch with a joggled stock rail. joggle-1.gif Instead of a plain set in the stock rail at B, it is joggled sideways between positions A and C, with the maximum deflection from its previous unjoggled alignment being at the blade tip position B. In bullhead track the joggled section is always created by bending the rail rather than by machining a notch in it. The switch blade is planed to a blunt tip (straightcut), to a thickness corresponding to the amount of joggle, which has been exaggerated in this diagram for clarity. Apart from a rounded corner at the tip the blade is the full height of the stock rail and plays its part in supporting the wheels along its full length. A straightcut switch can often ...

... /www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/67805-converting-to-em-and-handbuilt-track/page-5 #entry1447437 I thought my reply might interest members here: Hi Michael, A slip in a mathematical transition? No, or at least not in traditional chaired track. Transition curves are normally used where there is a cant gradient (increasing superelevation) which means in effect that there is a twist in the track. Switch rails inserted in a twist wouldn't be able to slide properly or align with the stock rail. There is no major reason not to insert a slip as a special one-off in a flat transition curve, but I'm not aware of any. What is much more common is for an effective transition to be created by using a different fixed radius between each crossing in a diamond. This is often the case for a double junction, for example. This method of designing a double junction also allows standard crossing angles to be used, rather than the older method of having a single radius ...

... Thanks for the help Phil Last edited on 31 Jul 2014 15:04 by Phil O posted: 3 Aug 2014 04:59 from: Martin Wynne Hi Phil, I agree that positioning the blunt nose can be tricky because the relevant template detail is obscured when the timbers are attached to the template. I'm not too clear how your red line helps because it is similarly obscured by the timber? My usual answer is to print a copy template on tracing paper which can be laid on the rails during assembly to check the alignments. But I can see the advantage of a more prominent indication of the blunt nose position on the template which remains visible after attaching the timbers. So I have added new V-crossing labels in a similar style to the switch labels. The FP marker is seldom needed during construction, but I feel that it is necessary to have both so that the meaning of the blunt nose marker is clearly differentiated from it. With square-on timbering: 2_022328_040000002.png With equalized timbering -- the markers remain square-on: ...

... change timber spacing: switch section, closure section, wing rail, vee rail. But it's really hard to understand menu points without a picture explaining elements of the turnout since they are specific terms. Good news- I have done some experiments and I have achieved a good result. My timber spacing for a turnout is exactly what I need. The rest is done with the help of 'shove timbers' feature I suppose. I may still have further questions. Is there a feature which allows to bend the rail ends to align parallel tracks as shown on the screenshot? Thank you very much for your help. 3445_031226_100000000.png posted: 3 Dec 2017 18:40 from: Martin Wynne Z Gauge Tim wrote: I may still have further questions. Is there a feature which allows to bend the rail ends to align parallel tracks as shown on the screenshot? Hi Tim, There are two ways to do that. In both cases you will first need to extend the overall length of the turnout template using the F4 mouse action. Then: 1. ...

... I have been developing a design for a West Highland layout with trackwork following North British practice, in which sleepered formations were the rule rather than the exception. A trivial observation regarding your crossings is that the nose of the vee in some cases extends slightly beyond the timber on which it is carried, and I wonder whether that reflects NER practice, or whether the timber should be set in a slightly different position, particularly if there is a holding down bolt in front of the nose. Another feature that struck me was the alignment of timbers at right angles to one or other of the routes through a crossing. That was the way I laid out my representations of North British crossings until I read Richard Chown's comments at topic 401 – see in particular point 10 in post #92. As a result of this I adjusted my designs so as to align timbers carrying A, B, C, D, X and Y chairs on a line drawn at right angles to the bisector of the vee. I did this in the expectation that the resulting ...

... time you started a Templot session. Did the warnings not appear? Did you leave Templot running for several days? You may be reporting a bug there. Also I should perhaps consider adding subsequent warnings if Templot has not been restarted for long periods. Yes and no, you can convert it to 00 in one go. See: topic 3086- message 22111 Because of the big change in gauge:scale ratio for 00, it is not going to convert very well. It will need the templates to be re-aligned -- whether that is better or worse than starting again is up to you. Problems with stored and duplicate templates keep cropping up. I have explained it so many times using different forms of words, I really don't know what more I can say. The golden rule is that if you click something containing the word "make", don't store the control template first, because Templot will do it for you. You might want to watch this video which I posted earlier today, and note that only at the ...