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221. Transition markers
... topic: 575 Transition markers posted: 29 Sep 2008 15:23 from: JFS Hi All, Anyone know how to turn the visibility of transition start/ end markers off both on the pad and when printing?? Herewith pic of current project which using half a illion partial templates, all on transition curves and the result looks a bit messy!! Many thanks, Howard Attachment: attach_353_575_Scr_Shot1.jpg 128 posted: 29 Sep 2008 16:22 from: Martin Wynne JFS wrote: Anyone know how to turn the visibility of transition start/ end markers off both on the pad and when printing?? Herewith pic of current project which using half a zillion partial templates, all on transition curves and the result looks a bit messy!! Hi Howard, Well, you are certainly not shy of using transitions! That's going to be an impressive piece of pointwork. First of all, the transition markers which are out in fresh air can be removed and/or tidied up using the geometry> transition curve> normalize transition function (first delete to ...
... right software to plan a Marcway layout. Try AnyRail instead. By all means buy Marcway turnout kits, but discard the supplied template and build them on Templot templates. cheers, Martin. posted: 4 Feb 2020 23:57 from: madscientist The point is Martin, anyrsil or any other setback style system doesn't have marcway either The issue is how do you plan electronically using marcway. I dont intend to build the marcway track as I don't like them, but I have been asked to plan it with the ability to print proper templates. That's why I am using templot Last edited on 4 Feb 2020 23:59 by madscientist posted: 5 Feb 2020 00:30 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: The point is Martin, Anyrail or any other set-track style system doesn't have Marcway either Hi Dave, I think David Hoogvorst at AnyRail would be interested to know that there is a UK track system which isn't covered in AnyRail -- he has the C&L templates for example. If you contact him and give him the ...
223. Track layout options
... editor is then blank, you can copy and paste from the displayed preview text. Yup, user side ID 10 T error logged. Will try again once I've finished laying this vee... posted: 20 Nov 2009 10:58 from: Al Crooks Hi Martin, Here I go again! Firstly, apologies if any of these questions have obvious answers, I'm on the Mac at the moment, as the PC PSU seems to have given up, so I can't open Templot to check things. luckily I'd already printed off what I need for now....You can do that now, using dummy templates... That crossed my mind, but I was unsure if you could use numeric input to position the peg exactly where you want it....You can do that now. It's called notch-linking... So you can! I'd completely missed that in the help. Could I add a gentle request for stuff like this to be in a written manual. I know it's a little contentious, but we all ...
224. Preferences
... topic: 104 Preferences posted: 28 Jun 2007 05:52 from: Peter Salathiel Hello Martin, It would save me time, printing ink, and paper if there were a way to save my printing preferences both between sessions and during sessions. Via a file would be great. I could then have one set for individual template, another set for groups and yet another for the whole layout. It would certain ly alow me to make betteruse of all the wonderful options, particularly colour, that are in the printing section. Right now, I don't use half of them because once I change them there are too many to remember! Best Regards Peter posted: 29 Jun 2007 17:01 from: Martin Wynne Peter Salathiel wrote: It would save me time, printing ink, and paper if there were a way to save my printing preferences both between sessions and during sessions. Via a file would be great. I could then have one set for individual template, another set for groups and yet another for the whole layout. It ...
... topic: 2474 Information on print outs posted: 29 Jun 2014 14:06 from: Tony Huckin I am new to this so apologies if this is already available. Is it possible to show geometry information on the print outs of designs. In particular radii which I currently annotate manually. posted: 29 Jun 2014 15:34 from: Martin Wynne Hi Tony, Welcome to Templot Club. If you tick this box before printing the control template, a page will be printed giving full dimension details for the template: 2_290926_380000000.png If you want to add brief notes to the actual construction template, you can add label shapes in the main> background shapes functions. If you want to have a lot of text on the construction template, you can do that via the sketchboard. If you select the option to add a formatted text block item, you can copy and paste from Microsoft Word in RTF format (or any other software which can use RTF format) or write it directly. Tick this box to include such sketchboard items in the print ...
226. diagram-mode output
... -lines only menu item. To match existing terminology that should perhaps be "very thick" rather than "wide", as elsewhere line width is always referred to as line thickness. It's always the words which trip me up. regards, Martin. posted: 19 May 2011 21:59 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin That all makes sense! I'll have another play later. Cheers posted: 3 Jun 2011 21:35 from: Martin Wynne For the next TDV update I have made a few changes to the print pages dialog: 2_031623_210000000.png 1. There are option buttons to change the output mode on the print pages dialog in addition to the settings on the output menu. This makes it possible to swap modes between one page and the next, should anyone want to do such a thing. Mainly it is so that you can change the mode before printing if you have forgotten to do so. 2. As a reminder of the mode in force, a splash panel now appears on the print preview screen. 3. I have ...
227. Printing problem
... topic: 2383 Printing problem posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:25 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, Not of great importance but if I choose to print the control template. Computer says there is a communication problem. However template prints out OK nonetheless. It only happens when I choose to print the control template. Running XP SP3 posted: 21 Jan 2014 11:26 from: Martin Wynne Borg-Rail wrote: Computer says there is a communication problem. However template prints out OK nonetheless. Hi Stephen, Not Templot. It's a known problem with Epson printers. Try a shorter printer cable, or a higher grade cable. If it is an old-style parallel printer cable, try using a USB connection instead if the printer has a USB socket. If it happens only with the control template, it is something related to the colour codes on the cable, or the number of pages. regards, Martin. posted: 21 Jan 2014 13:01 from: Stephen Freeman Hi Martin, I shalln't worry about it too much ...
228. Background shapes
... topic: 3647 Background shapes posted: 28 Apr 2020 08:15 from: Hayfield I have added a small plan as a background shape, and now overlaid a track plan on it, I can print out the trackplan full size, is there a way of printing the background shape full size please posted: 28 Apr 2020 08:54 from: Martin Wynne Hayfield wrote: I have added a small plan as a background shape, and now overlaid a track plan on it, I can print out the trackplan full size, is there a way of printing the background shape full size please Hi John, Click this option: 2_280343_560000000.png But be warned, it is likely to be slow, and not all printers can do it. Your system might stop responding while waiting for the printer. It should come back afterwards. Go make a coffee. (Make sure you have saved your BOX and BGS3 files first, in case it goes wrong.) The reason is the very high degree of magnification needed. Also, if the image background ...
229. Timber Centre Lines
... help dialogue box as Clicking Real-Rails-Head Centre Line. Which is where we came in. Clicking Head Only or No Rails does exactly that. What am I not doing that I should be? Best regards Charles Using Windows 7 posted: 11 Nov 2015 01:29 from: Martin Wynne Charles Orr wrote: I'm trying to show the timber centre lines and rail centre lines. Hi Charles, Do you mean on the control template or on background templates? Do you mean on the screen, or on the printed or PDF templates, or somewhere else, such as on the sketchboard or in exported images? It's important to bear in mind that the generator settings control which elements are generated. Whether having been generated they are then displayed, depends on the display settings elsewhere. (Although of course if they are not generated they can't then be displayed anywhere, regardless of any settings.) I'm guessing that you want to print these centre-lines as drilling templates for the rivet centres for Brook Smith type riveted track construction? There ...
... topic: 2895 More Printer Problems- Templot related posted: 5 Jul 2016 14:45 from: Stephen Freeman Hi Martin, Think I might have found a problem. I have just created a new track plan for myself, it's fairly basic, nothing complicated. Here are the details: 4-SF Page set to A3 Printer Driver Epson 1290 (M) Windows 7 I just wanted to print 1 page (a10) so omitted pages before and after in the Print Dialogue, trouble is, Templot insisted on printing 4 of the pages before and also wanted to carry on printing after it had printed the desired page. Stephen posted: 5 Jul 2016 15:00 from: Martin Wynne Borg-Rail wrote: Printer Driver Epson 1290 (M) Windows 7 Hi Stephen, Which driver are you using? I have been unable to use my Epson 1290 on Windows7. According to various web sites it should be possible using the integrated Microsoft driver, but no joy here last time I tried. regards, Martin. posted: 5 Jul ...
231. Print to image
... topic: 480 Print to image posted: 9 Jul 2008 01:06 from: richard_t Can anyone suggest a good/free (or both!!) print to image printer driver? TIA Richard. posted: 9 Jul 2008 01:33 from: Martin Wynne richard_t wrote: Can anyone suggest a good/free (or both!!) print to image printer driver? Hi Richard, Some Epson printers include a print to bitmap option. You may be able to download and install a driver without the printer. I use Snagit. Not free, although there is a free trial. It's primarily for screen captures, but includes a good virtual printer which can save large bitmap images. Like this: fremington_print_b1.png fremington_print_b2.png fremington_print_b3.png regards, Martin. posted: 9 Jul 2008 02:05 from: richard_t Martin Wynne wrote: richard_t wrote: Can anyone suggest a good/free (or both!!) print to image printer driver? Hi Richard, I use Snagit. Not free, although there is a free trial. It's primarily ...
232. Printing Query
... topic: 1543 Printing Query posted: 17 Jun 2011 21:10 from: Richard_Jones Hi Martin, Probably a really simple query, but can I move a group of templates to optimise how it prints out when restricted to A4? ie minimum number with turnouts on a single sheet many thanks Richard posted: 17 Jun 2011 22:13 from: Martin Wynne Richard_Jones wrote: Probably a really simple query, but can I move a group of templates to optimise how it prints out when restricted to A4? ie minimum number with turnouts on a single sheet Hi Richard, Sure. You can either 1. move the page origin and page outlines -- SHIFT+ CTRL+ F10 mouse action (action> mouse actions: pad> move page origin). This is the simplest and quickest way to optimize the templates within the page outlines. or 2. move the templates on the grid. If you have designed your track plan to fit a known baseboard or location you may not want to change its position on the grid. In which case ...
... topic: 536 OT problems with Thunderbird posted: 3 Sep 2008 14:25 from: Brian Lewis Please forgive the OT subject, but I know that there are a number of Thunderbird 'experts' here. Since purchasing a new CPU for used as my email/Internet computer, when I print out emails I get a page of unwanted data as well. These start off with 'X-Account Key' and go through a list of 30+ headings, finishing with 'Content-Type'. Clearly, I have to switch something off, but what? Can anyone advise please? Regards Brian Lewis posted: 3 Sep 2008 22:30 from: Jim Guthrie Brian Lewis wrote: Please forgive the OT subject, but I know that there are a number of Thunderbird 'experts' here. Since purchasing a new CPU for used as my email/Internet computer, when I print out emails I get a page of unwanted data as well. These start off with 'X-Account Key' and go through a list of 30+ headings, finishing ...
234. Beginners queries
... 05:18 from: Martin Wynne Mike Kynaston wrote: 3) part of his layout will be a double track going under another pair of tracks. I don't think there is anyway to show gradients so is it just a case of letting the lines crossover each other? Is there any suggested or preferred way of doing this or doesn't it matter? Hi Mike, Templot is a 2D program. There is no provision for multi-levels, as it is primarily about track formations referenced to the rail-top. The printed templates are the same, regardless of which level you intend to use them on. Where tracks cross on different levels it is up to you how you want to proceed at the design stage. On the trackpad, most users know which is which and simply allow the tracks to cross over each other. Usually at any one time you are working on only one of the levels, so you could if you wish group and save each level in its own BOX file and load only the one you are working on at ...
... Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: Am I dreaming or was there a page on the Companion showing chair names and positions on bullhead S&C work? BRT( blue 1956 ed.) pages 87 and 92 gives details but your colour diagrams are always so well drawn and much better to explain to people. Hi Rob, I can't remember a specific page, but I have at times coloured in Len Newman's template drawings for Exactoscale, e.g. chairing_patterns.gif topic 780- message 4620 There has also been some discussion in Andy's 3D printing topic: topic 2734- message 19837 What specific information are you looking for? There is a PDF of the Paddington drawings of the standard REA chairs at: http://www.scalefour.org/downloads/gwrtracknotes/R4290A.pdf cheers, Martin. posted: 1 Apr 2018 11:18 from: Martin Wynne p.s. Rob, Back in version 214 I did start on an experimental function to add chair outlines to the templates: 2_010608_040000000.png 2_010608_040000001.png I may pick it up again one day. It's an utter minefield because of so many ...
... topic: 3782 Bizarre printing offset? posted: 26 Sep 2020 11:44 from: William Williamson Hello there, I'm not really a beginner but this feels like it's a simple question with a simple solution! For some reason, when I print off a plan, the templates are really offset: http://i.imgur.com/6Nu5KIY.png The trim markings at the top aren't visible, and I can't work out what's going on. I've played with the trim margins configuration in the application but I can't really make head nor tail of what I've done wrong! This only happens in templot, and happens on all plans printed (even the default startup box) If I attempt to print to PDF, I get a printed area that's to scale, but with ginormous margins, as if it's designed for much smaller paper. Any ideas? posted: 26 Sep 2020 14:28 from: William Williamson Apologies, looks like this is something to do with my printer after all. I was able to set big margins and then trim to those, ...
... operation. I found out the hard way years ago that when building a turnout and crossing formation that starting with the turnout can cause a lot of problems. Jim. Last edited on 13 May 2019 20:14 by Jim Guthrie posted: 13 May 2019 20:21 from: Martin Wynne Hi Godders, For a diamond or slip it's best to start with the vees, as Phil says. That's because they need to be exactly the correct distance apart, to allow the other rails to align correctly. That also means printing a template for exactly the gauge which you are using. In other words don't try to build 00-SF 16.2mm say, on a 16.5mm gauge diamond-crossing template. Or 0-MF 31.5mm on a 32mm gauge template. Print one for 00-SF or 0-MF, it will be a fraction shorter. For a regular-pattern V-crossing on a curve, both legs of the vee should be curved to the same radius. Curve them after making the vee, to match the template. ...
... topic: 1530 Large format printing service posted: 9 Jun 2011 18:05 from: Martin Wynne A large format layout printing service in the USA which mentions Templot: http://www.layoutprinting.com I have no knowledge or connection with this -- the link was posted today on another forum. It may be worth investigating if you are looking for large format printing of your track plan. The great advantage over a local digital copyshop is that the printing is done by people who know what a model railway is, and understand the need for precision printing. Postage from the USA may be a bit prohibitive though. regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Large format printing service 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 ...
239. Printing preferences
... topic: 3381 Printing preferences posted: 4 Feb 2019 22:52 from: Bob Allison Hello all. I have searched high and low for answers to the following questions, without success, so I'm hoping someone out there can help. 1. Is there any way to supress the text that is printed just inside the trim margins (" page starts at", "page ends at" etc)? It always conspires to hide important details like the crossing nose or the tips of the switch blades. 2. Can I change the printed colour of the track in Sketchboard fit-to-page output. Thanks in advance, Bob posted: 4 Feb 2019 23:41 from: Martin Wynne Bob Allison wrote: 1. Is there any way to supress the text that is printed just inside the trim margins (" page starts at", "page ends at" etc)? It always conspires to hide important details like the crossing nose or the tips of the switch blades. 2. Can I change the printed colour of ...
... only show on the Control Template. I know sometime in the last few months I selected an option somewhere that did this, which is what I wanted. However, I can't remember where it was that I made this selection. Reminder someone. P.S. This is not the selection on the Geometry Menu. Please help I want my lines back on background templates. posted: 26 Aug 2016 10:32 from: Martin Wynne Hi Godfrey, Track centre-lines or timber centre-lines? On the screen or on printed templates? On existing background templates or newly stored ones? After reloading a file or while working? Are you using saved program preferences? If so are you using the option to include the generator settings? There are several ways to make centre-lines disappear on background templates: 1. design them without centre-lines in the first place, or with the centre-line moved to a different place (e.g. double-track centre-lines instead of track centres), in the geometry menu or the geometry ...
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