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... topic: 3673 C&L new products and service update posted: 21 May 2020 12:18 from: Hayfield Just had a chat with Phil, he is very busy, owing to the Covid outbreak he now only posts items out on Thursdays as he has arranged a time each week where he can safely send all his parcels out without being incontact with other customers Secondly he is struggling to keep up with demand on some products and some orders may take up to 2 weeks to be processed New products Hot on the heals of the new revised 2 bolt chair sprues the new 3 bolt chair sprues are now available [highlight= rgb(0, 28, 223); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0.4em; letter-spacing: 3px; margin: inherit;]Wednesday, May 20, 2020 20/05/2020 [highlight= yellow;] All new 4 mm 3 Bolt Chai r with 16 items on the sprue is now in stock 10 Standard Chairs, 2 S1J Chairs, 2 ...
... 20:56 from: Martin Wynne Phil Chudley wrote: I could draw the buildings in Sketchup using 4mm to 1' (doing the conversions with the Templot calculator tool) or is there a way to export from Templot in DXF using "real world" units, so that for example a 60' track panel is imported as 60' and not 240mm? Hi Phil, Working full-size rather than in model sizes is very satisfying and enjoyable. You can either design full size track* in Templot (set a custom scale as 1:1 ), or work in model sizes (S4/P4) in Templot and convert to full size on exporting the DXF, as you asked. To do that: dxf_scaling.png Extract from the help text: "If the scaled box is ticked, the DXF data will be scaled in accordance with the current print> enlarge/reduce size> menu setting." print_any_size.png The scale for 4mm/ft is 1:76.2, so to convert S4/P4 to full size, set the print ...
263. tandem aids
... 17 Dec 2017 22:50 from: Phil O Hi Martin. I'm with the above, video tutorials are what helped me to get a grip of Templot, when I started, the old step by step written tutorials were a lot harder to grasp what was going, because you didn't know if you had really done the job properly. Seeing what was supposed to happen made it a lot easier to grasp. Once the beginner has grasped the basics from the videos, it's not a huge next step to producing your own custom templates and has been said before by me and others Templot is a steep learning curve and most seem to want to jump into tandem turnouts before they have even mastered plain track and ordinary left and right hand turnouts. Cheers Phil Last edited on 17 Dec 2017 22:51 by Phil O posted: 17 Dec 2017 22:53 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Many thanks for the effort so far on the Tandem issue. The dialogue you suggest for beginner tandems looks fine until the need for some working user knowledge ...
264. sketchboard menu
... not as prominent as it was Hi Phil, Sorry about that. Something had to give, to get the 1-line toolbar within the common 1920 screen width (at the default medium program size). cheers, Martin. posted: 13 Dec 2017 18:07 from: Phil O Martin, No need to be sorry, we are very grateful for what you have given us, most of this is icing on the cake, the most important part of your brilliant programme is being able too produce flowing trackwork with custom switches and crossings inline with prototype practice anything above and beyond that is a bonus. Many thanks Phil. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> I found a flaw> sketchboard menu 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 ...
... answer your question, an intending Templot user has just asked on RMweb: "Can anyone suggest for a main line (my layout will either be WCML or ECML 1980s based) what would be the usual type of point work is it like B5 or C6 etc" I honestly don't know where to begin in answering a question like that. It's the title of a book. cheers, Martin. posted: 16 Jan 2018 22:17 from: Rob Manchester Martin, B5 turnouts on the WCML will certainly keep the passengers customers awake. You wouldn't want to be getting a drink from the bar when the train diverged over those. Can you still stand at a bar on a Pendolino and have a barman in a white jacket serve you a whisky? What does Richie do though? He isn't likely to find the information with Google and I haven't seen many books giving details of the turnout specs on the intended modelling subject. He would have found lots of info on the benefits of 4-SF on Templot or RM forums. A correspondent in ...
... the best with it. Do you have any idea on production schedules and do you have to 'fund' the product start-up to be eligible to purchase later? Remind him that the old Great Western used 2 bolt track...for the future. Rob posted: 30 Jul 2019 16:54 from: Hayfield Martin I have seen it written in a few articles that this is correct. On the other hand I understand what the local permanent way staff did sometime would differ. I am the messenger and the customer has the choice Martin Wynne wrote: Hayfield wrote: Branchline which has keys which alternate Hi John, Looking good. The usual rule on single lines was to drive keys "towards the river, towards the station, towards the rail joint". That means the direction in which the keys are driven, i.e. they remain projecting in the opposite direction. So you can use the main-line version (the right way round) on single lines in those cases, "the river" meaning down a gradient, ...
... leaving fine detail of the prototypical internals to those who use templot. In that sense, the ability to exchange info between pictograms would enable the quick an easy part of xtrkcad to marry up to the righteous and precise templot. Regards, Adam posted: 26 Feb 2018 18:50 from: Martin Wynne Hi Adam, Welcome to Templot Club. Details of how to import a DXF file from XTrackCAD into Templot as a background guide are at: topic 3049 Which is probably the best way for an XTrackCAD user to get a custom turnout design. It could then be exported from Templot as a DXF file and imported back into XTrackCAD, or inserted as a bitmap image. regards, Martin. posted: 27 Feb 2018 15:07 from: Adam Richards Martin,Well, your proposal would involve at least one enhancement to XTrackCAD over its current state which is that we don't have an image capability for an object yet- all our objects are drawn vectors today. It is something that I have been working towards adding once we have migrated to a ...
... topic: 2665 New items on the sketchboard posted: 1 Apr 2015 18:31 from: Martin Wynne For the next program update I have added a few more basic shape items on the sketchboard: square, triangle, arc, ring, segment, are new: 2_011318_400000001.png These provide a bit more flexibility in creating symbols and custom combined items. For example the ring will be useful for goods line signal arms on signal box diagrams. They can all be resized, stretched and rotated as before. And can be outlines, infill, or both, in any colours you wish, with adjustable transparency. For the arc and ring, the inner radius can be set as a% of the outer radius. Setting zero for this produces a full arc sector -- useful for coloured pie diagrams. 2_011318_400000000.png In the next program update. regards, Martin. posted: 7 Apr 2015 19:50 from: Andrew Duncan Martin A couple of small questions 1. When I tried to invoke the Sketchboard it comes up with a dialogue box saying " ...
... that was several years ago. One complicating detail is the fact that all posts are also transmitted to the Yahoo archive, and also by email to other members. From where they cannot be deleted. It's not clear to me how this is compatible with the GDPR right to be forgotten. For the present I'm adopting a head in the sand approach to this. It would be a great shame if the Yahoo archive has to be deleted, because it provides (on the rare occasions it actually works) by far the best custom search facilities for the Templot Club content. 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> General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 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 ...
... that a working check rail can just about be made to fit. The check rail length is severely under-scale but it manages to look the part: em6_slip_k.png But using the same settings in 00-SF produces a conflict. You might decide to live with this. It means filing the back of the check rails to fit, which looks a bit odd, but the check rails are still long enough to work: 00sf6_slip_k.png A possible change is to use a shorter switch. Here I have used a 1:20 custom switch instead of the usual 1:24 slip switch. The 1:20 planing is equivalent to a 7ft-6in switch -- well down into industrial sizes, and it shows. But it eases the slip road radius to 65", and makes room for the check rail with only just the corner needing to be removed: 00sf6_slip_k_20sw.png An alternative solution is to change to movable K-crossings (switch-diamond). This keeps the original switch (you might even manage a longer 1:32 switch) ...
... p.s. You don't need an anti-virus program on Windows10. It comes with its own (free) Windows Defender program which works fine. regards, Martin. posted: 31 Oct 2017 18:24 from: Trevor Walling Hello, As a user of a Microsoft product maybe you should contact them. It would appear their product is not fit for purpose. Unless the product is not just an operating system to enable the use of a computer to do things you want. Maybe Microsoft should make this clear to its customers that is or is not the case. I prefer not to use Microsoft products where possible and have avoided such issues. If people complained to Microsoft about their products maybe they would do something about such an unsatisfactory state of affairs. I am baffled how people put up with perfectly usable software packages or hardware being rendered unusable or obsolete without reason just so they (Microsoft) can resell a computer operating system that ties people to using only what Microsoft permit. Imagine a single motor manufacturer dictating how fuel should be produced. ...
... proceedure hassle (by email of course), including searching my trash because the formum new password email triggered the spam test and got filtered posted: 22 Jan 2008 23:43 from: Paul Boyd Brian Lewis wrote: 'HiNi' rail, containing 18% nickel, resists oxidation and yellowing. Also the running surface is a bright silver and looks so right. I am currently planning another layout. You can be sure the trackwork will be constructed using HiNi rail. Hi Brian Is this what you're selling as standard when a customer orders nickel-silver rail from you? I must admit that I hadn't bought N/S rail from you because I assumed the normal yellowy stuff. The HiNi does sound good. I prefer the look of steel rail over the "normal" N/S rail, but don't like the faff of finding the rail has rusted because a smidgen of flux was left behind. Cheers posted: 22 Jan 2008 23:52 from: Martin Wynne Andy Reichert wrote: PS. Wasted about 20 minutes replying on forum instead ...
273. Flangeway end gap
... of the end of rails (check or wing) Hi Stephen, Yes, you can do that by modifying the flangeway end-gap and the flare length. For an individual check rail or wing rail, use the real> adjust check rails... menu item. Here is a bit of video showing that being done: http://flashbackconnect.com/Default.aspx?id=m3nrRymDOeSvsWfXoQojcg2 2_020716_480000000.png To change all the check rails on a template: 1. change the flare length at real> V-crossing options> customize V-crossing> wing and check rails... menu item. 2. Change the end-gap as below: 2_020705_450000000.png The issue is not as simple as it might seem, because the flare length is a prototype setting (entered in inches), but the end gap is a model setting which depends on the track standards in use (entered in mm). cheers, Martin. posted: 2 Apr 2019 14:10 from: Stephen Freeman Unfortunately that's not what I meant. I knew I can ...
... but the physical object is called a catch point. Many different track formations can function as a trap. Martin. posted: 15 Feb 2019 18:06 from: madscientist thanks martin, nice pic Can templot handle the expanded switch rail heel position in 00-SF?( sorry if we are duplicating this conversation on Scalforum) posted: 15 Feb 2019 18:14 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: Can Templot handle the expanded switch rail heel position in 00-SF? Hi Dave, Sure. Click the set custom switch... button on the switch settings dialog. Lots of info on loose-heel switches in this topic: topic 2776- message 19351 cheers, Martin. posted: 15 Feb 2019 18:54 from: Phil O The Loose heel chair has two jaws and with the rail slid in there's about a 3/8" gap, if the web of the rail is tight too one jaw and the other jaw, there is no no key. Two bolt fish plates secure the switch rail to the closure ...
275. EM Gauge options
... for those with a religious attachment to 16.5mm gauge who want something finer than DOGA-Fine. In all these cases, EM-SF, EM4, 00-XF, 004, wheels from Romford/Markits are marginal. They will work on straight and gently curved track, but any significant curving will require some gauge-widening. In EM4 and 004 they won't work with the standard Romford/Markits axles. These two standards aren't in the Templot gauge list of pre-sets, but can easily be set up as custom settings. They are not in the pre-sets because I don't have the strength to keep on explaining them over and over again for 20 years, as I have been doing for 00-SF on RMweb and elsewhere. The golden rule with choosing which standard to use is that you decide on your wheels first. Whereas the hobby for decades has been pre-occupied with deciding the track gauge first. cheers, Martin. posted: 30 Jan 2019 15:30 from: Hayfield Godfrey Earnshaw wrote: Hi Hayfield ...
... decided to have 2 separate sets of open-source files, intended for slightly different purposes. They are starting off identical. I have created 2 new forum sections on Templot Club, for talking about these open-source versions of Templot: TemplotMEC nuts and bolts is for talking about the TemplotMEC "kit" version of Templot, which is for users who want to dabble in programming, or use Templot as a means to learn about it. Lots of friendly help on there, and instructions for getting started with your own custom version of the Templot program. That would be in addition to and separate from your existing Templot2 version of Templot, which is not affected in any way by these changes. Find that new section at: http://85a.co.uk/forum/view_forum.php?id=26 OpenTemplot Project is for those who are developing the OpenTemplot version of Templot on the SourceForge web site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opentemplot/ This would become the official version of Templot in the event that Templot2 ceases to be available. ...
... the model would be movable, which is not typical of the prototype where the majority of K-crossings are fixed. Check rails (guard rails) are used only for fixed K-crossings in which the diamond point rails are fixed. Check rails are not required for movable K-crossings because the wheels see no break in the rail. K-crossing point rails are blunted to a tip width 1/8" less than the corresponding V-crossing blunt nose, which can be set by clicking the REAL> CUSTOMIZE V-CROSSING> BLUNT NOSE... menu item. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- regards, Martin. posted: 20 Dec 2007 03:22 from: Gordon S Thanks again guys. Having printed off a 1:10 template I can see the possible problem. The gaps across the centre crossing are pretty large and I can visualise wheels dropping in the gap. No ...
... 2" apart is a challenge. I've been in the track pad to about 150 pages, but never got to a '.exe' to allow me to that. Could you put together a tutorial that explains something like that? I've never managed to set ties in like that, in 'track pad'. Or maybe write back to tell me, please? Lu. New Berlin, Wi. USA posted: 3 Sep 2018 21:47 from: Martin Wynne Hi Lu, There is a tutorial showing how to set up custom plain track sleeper/tie spacings at: http://templot.com/martweb/pdf_files/gwr_track_panels.pdf There should be a link in the Templot Companion. I will check that it is still there. The tutorial was written by Stuart Hince several years ago, but it is still valid for Templot2. It is specifically for GWR 44ft-6in track panels, so you just need to change the dimensions accordingly. I should perhaps explain that in UK practice, the sleepers are not evenly spaced. They are progressively closed up ...
... fraction of the capabilities of Templot, but it is a tool to be used in any way you wish. Most users of commercial track prefer to use programs designed for the purpose, such as AnyRail: http://www.anyrail.com although unlike Templot they don't usually allow for the chopping down of fixed pointwork. There are some sample Peco Streamline 00/H0 templates available for downloading from: topic 294 peco_00h0.png Sorry I don't have any info about the geometry of N gauge set-track pointwork -- you would need to create custom turnouts from it. Someone may have a already done so, and be willing to share the Templot .box files. Anyone? cheers, Martin. posted: 10 Jan 2019 14:17 from: Bill Adlington Matrin, yeah I tried anyrail and realised it needed a whole set of new learning curves and that i don't mind except I have my own ambitions with Templot (assuming I can get on with it) and plans I wish to do. On that basis then it seems practical to only learn one. The ...
280. Saved Preferences
... posted an hour earlier I may have delayed that to include what you wanted in the prefs. I will try to get another update done soon with your requirements. I have been adding stuff to the prefs as I need it myself or folks ask for it. There are so many options and settings in Templot that to include them all from scratch would be a major task. cheers, Martin. posted: 19 Aug 2019 23:53 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Thanks for your kind offer to add some more custom settings to the output menu. Maybe I didn't explain properly why I want to do this. The idea is :- 1) Design a trackplan. 2) When it looks right change to a 'custom' .sk1 file that enables a track plan to be printed that only has timbers/sleepering and rails on it and use that to make a mock-up of the layout( either full size or more likely at a reduced scale. 3) Make any changes to the track plan and maybe print it again. ...
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