... topic: 3818 Print error on blunt nose posted: 21 Nov 2020 12:36 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin I've found a bit of a curiosity when printing templates where the blunt nose as displayed on the screen continues to a sharp point on the printouts. On the print preview attached, you can see that the centre crossing is ok, but the other two show the rails continuing to the fine point. Those two happen to be gaunt turnouts, but on the attached box file there's a normal turnout that shows the same effect. Not really a problem from a build point of view, but probably something that shouldn't happen, or I've done something strange! Cheers, Paul 105_210730_380000000.png Attachment: attach_3177_3818_group_2020_11_21 _1228_52.box 12 posted: 21 Nov 2020 13:47 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: Not really a problem from a build point of view, but probably something that shouldn't happen, or I've done something strange! Hi Paul, Yes, you have done something strange! You have set the rail-section to flat-bottom, ...

... or Copydex) could cause you great problems as they are likely to affect the wallpaper, which could well shrink on drying resulting in distortion and possibly worse (same goes for any templates left in situ). as to the 1mm flangeway, I'm sure others will point out that the critical measurement is not the actual check-rail flangeway width itself but the distance from the inner face of the check-rail to the inner face of the crossing wing-rail. Thanks for your very helpful reply. I had held off printing the templates until I received a reply and, just as I finished printing, in came your post. Thanks for your comments regarding the wallpaper. I think I shall abandon the this approach for the reason you have given and because of the issues I have found with flatness and vulnerability. I guess I am going back to the traditional cork sheets instead. Your comments about the templates are a worry. When building turnouts with copperclad I was able to remove the templates on completion of the build before fitting them to the ...

... will lose out. It's a shame, but there it is -- my resources are limited. I'm not going to use HTML5 video (MP4) for Templot because creating it makes me ill. But I will try to keep Linux users in mind and possibly create packaged videos for the VCL player using the TSCC codec. regards, Martin. posted: 18 Jul 2013 11:59 from: Nigel Brown Having read the original, my impression is that the user in question may have simply got in a muddle during the printing dialogue. Others in the same boat would assume they had done something wrong and would have played about with things to see if they could find out what; I don't think he has, to any great extent. The problem may be a bit deeper and maybe a bit more general; how far is he really committed to getting to grips with Templot? Virtually all packages of any complexity need a decent degree of commitment; just playing around with things and hoping things would just work isn't enough. The user needs to ...

... baseboards in negative territory. Third, the outline of the baseboard has been generated as a rectangular shape, and modified via font/colours and setting the trackpad line width to 3. This setting is not saved when I save the background shapes. Hi Howard, Your screenshot image was uploaded to the Image Gallery, but you didn't click on it to insert it in your message. I have done it for you. Please don't leave any part of your track plan in the negative quadrants, otherwise you won't be able to print the construction templates (without shifting the page origin). Move the whole plan into the positive quadrant using the shift group functions. The grid lines are omitted from the negative quadrants as a clear warning that you have wandered into them. The simplest way to proceed would be to start your first baseboard in its final position on the grid. But if you prefer to plan each baseboard at the grid origin, use shift group afterwards to move it to its final position. If you are not sure of its final position ...

... " in Templot, UK and Europe is only that part of a turnout comprising the moving points, not the entire turnout. I see that you have now posted on the Accu-Trak group about this. I think it would have been helpful to have waited for this reply first, although I understand your frustration. I now need to post a reply there to clarify some misunderstanding. regards, Martin. posted: 25 Feb 2011 12:12 from: BruceNordstrand Ok, definitely something going on somewhere... Just printed a #6 turnout from my plan and one directly from the USA box file and they are different even though they both say #6 US Style turnout. Here's some data from both of them Mine: switch front= 18.96 vertical lead= 185.63 actual lead= 186.51 blunt nose to timber A= 17 US turnouts box file version (sized up from the #5 in the file) switch front= 19.83 vertical lead= 166.07 actual lead= 166.96 blunt nose to timber A= 17 Now, using David Honers turnout ...

... from: MaxSouthOz It's hard not to get angry when dealing with Templot. I always expect the worst. I try to ask my questions in the simplest form- no good. Well meaning people always treat me as a simpleton. It's not their fault. I guess I am a simpleton. Other members of my forum have asked me questions about Templot, knowing that I'm trying to use it. I'm completely mystified as to how to save templates, so I do what they do- get it up on the screen and print it off. I've got another dumb question coming up in a new thread- this time on behalf of another member. Apologies in advance. posted: 29 Dec 2013 04:57 from: Martin Wynne MaxSouthOz wrote: I'm completely mystified as to how to save templates, so I do what they do- get it up on the screen and print it off. Hi Max, I feel sure the problem is one of terminology -- what do you mean by "save"? Can you post a screenshot showing ...

... topic: 1067 Printer set up....Landscape/Portrait reversed? posted: 9 Mar 2010 16:34 from: Gordon S I've been meaning to mention this Martin, but never got round to it. When you go into Print/Printer setup and select either Portrait or Landscape, they are the reverse of the normal convention in the Print Map. Selecting Landscape prints out Portrait and vice versa. Not the end of the world. Couldn't find anything in search, so maybe it's not been raised before. posted: 9 Mar 2010 18:10 from: Paul Boyd Not the end of the world. Couldn't find anything in search, so maybe it's not been raised before. Oh, it has, many times, sometimes getting quite heated! Personally, I think in the Templot context that the terms Landscape and Portrait are misleading because of people's expectations of what that means, but Martin can't change the printer drivers! It has more meaning if you consider banner printing... From the Help page: The end-run option ...

... with Templot I don't think. I downloaded a map from old-maps.co.uk it is 1928 and thus produced by tape measure and not aviation or satellite of course. The proportions of everything is remarkably close in respect of each item, but the overall scale is highly questionable- to the tune of about 8%. This seems quite high, even for such an old map. (I am comparing this against bing maps which zooms quite close in and has a good scale, whereas google maps does not.) I have printed out the old maps as a PDF and then scanned it as a jpeg to use as a backdrop. When I used the scale of 2500, it was about double so I dropped it to 1250 and thought "oh well". I have since had to change it to 1:1106.226 to get the scale to what I believe to be right when compared to bing maps. Has anyone else any experience of old-maps.co.uk? Would anyone else have an opinion on whether my choice of going with the satellite drawn ...

... foot (1.5 pixels per inch) for a really detailed item. Maybe even 24 pixels per foot, but we want the finished image files to display conveniently here in Templot Club and preferably via the Image Gallery rather than as attachments. That means 800 pixels as a practical maximum, which at 24 pixels per foot would limit the prototype item to 33ft only. The amount of cache memory needed is determined by the sketchboard rendering resolution which the user can set for himself. This affects only the sketchboard screen view, not the printed output or the view back on the workpad. Here are some example screenshots showing that: Sketchboard with internal rendering set at 150 DPI: 2_201702_280000000.png Sketchboard with internal rendering set at 600 DPI: 2_201702_290000001.png Sketchboard with internal rendering set at 2540 DPI: 2_201702_300000002.png After doing some testing I have now changed the default to 2540 DPI (100 DPMM). That's a lot higher than Nils recommends, so I'm waiting for some feedback from him about any potential problems this may cause. As far as I can determine it's working fine. ...

... of the local LNWR station in Daventry, I now need to output a DXF file for the CAD designer at our local model club, so he can incorporate it into the final overall design for the baseboards and everything else. I spent most of yesterday afternoon trying to export the DXF file but every time, whatever settings I tried i get no error message, but no file is created. I tried to create a PDF (well within the Acrobat reader limits) but whatever I did no file was created. I tried printing to my epson A3 printer, which either failed to print anything or spat out a blank sheet. I am at a loss to understand where i am going wrong, having printed and created files without problem from an earlier version of Templot2 a couple of years ago. I have trawled through the forum for similar problems, but I think now is the time to raise a topic to beg for help and suggestions. I am running Templot v208c in Windows 7 via VMware Fusion on a 17" MacBook Pro laptop. Overall ...