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... the rail centre-line, the required set angle where the planing runs out can be exactly specified as half the planing angle. On the other hand, if you are getting good results the other way, that's great. An excellent set of pictures on your site, thanks for the link. Years ago I made a wooden demo model about 2ft long of a prepared switch blade tip. I used to have it on my stand at shows when selling 85A pointwork kits and components. It came in handy for hitting awkward customers. If I can find it I will take a picture and post it here. 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> Handy Hint -- switch blade filing diagram 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 ...
... to store such templates*: 2_160414_200000000.png This means that a template can be deleted from a track plan in the make on click mode by clicking on it (to make it the control) and then pressing the DELETE key** -- which again avoids the need to access the full menu. ** While no mouse action is in force. The DELETE key will continue as now to hide/show the mouse action panel while a mouse action is in force. *If you have been using that method to store custom templates unobtrusively, set the overall length to 0.01mm instead -- geometry> template lengths (in mm) ... menu item. regards, Martin. posted: 17 Nov 2010 05:35 from: Martin Wynne Martin Wynne wrote: Another related change is that pressing the DELETE key will reduce the length of the control template to zero. (CTRL+ U to undo, in the usual way, or simply extend the length again with F4). I have now added a new tool button on the top ...
343. Help for new user
... backward compatible right back to the first ever release of Templot. However, "compatible" means only that they can be reloaded and saved without error. There are several features introduced in the later versions which will either be ignored by the earlier versions, or drawn differently on the templates. The most significant and obvious difference is that half-diamond templates are not supported in 074b, and if reloaded in 074b from 091c files will be drawn as truncated turnouts. To create a half-diamond template in 074b you create a custom switch having the same deflection angle as the V-crossing. That's a lot of work, compared with just a couple of clicks in 091c to create a half-diamond. So it's not a good idea to swap back and forth between versions if you are working on an actual finished track plan. You can always move forward to a later version, but going back to an earlier version may spoil your plan. Templot will warn you if any of the templates in a reloaded file are from an earlier or later ...
... developing an easy to understand set of help/user manual but you often seem to be dragged backwards by facile requests for support, which a little bit of lateral thinking and attempts at self-help would solve and also educate the "User" more effectively than you doing it for them. I often marvel at the patience and speed of response that you provide to such requests. (I was previously Head of ICT for a large organisation and the term "Users" was often applied in a derogatory sense when our "Customers" stepped over the boundaries of common sense, abdicated attempts at self-help and fell back upon the patience and professionalism of our support service!)) For me, it would be a better investment of your time to continue developing functionality on the existing platform but prioritise this against keeping documentation up to date and releasing the much anticipated and long awaited version 1.0. Regards, Neil posted: 27 Nov 2010 15:22 from: Paul Boyd Dave Personally I see the biggest concern over the next 10 years is a ...
... topic: 1314 C&L Timber Tracks& Templot posted: 19 Dec 2010 12:51 from: ghindle I am experimenting with Timber tracks& Templot with a small GWR P4 layout that has a Diamond crossing, B7& B8 turnouts and a lot of plain track. I have been able to match the plain track and created a custom setting for GWR 18 sleeper 44'6" track and that works well but i am struggling with the diamond and turnouts. Any advice would be appreciated before i revert to the C&L templates posted: 19 Dec 2010 13:31 from: Martin Wynne Hi Graham, I don't have copies of the C&L P4 templates, so it's difficult for me to reply. Also I don't know if the Timber Tracks range is a direct match to C&L's own templates. Brian Lewis is a member of this forum so hopefully he will be able to give full details. Generally to create an exact match to B7 and B8 prototype turnouts, in Templot you need to make these two changes to the ...
... topic: 1140 Bridport bay LSWR 1910 Latest Plan posted: 6 Jun 2010 14:11 from: philchudley Hi All A little while ago I uploaded my plan for a LSWR terminus based in 1910 at Bridport Bay. I reflected upon the feedback received and went about some redesigns. Also using the most valuable assistence provided by Martin in producing customized templates for LSWR turnouts, allowed to my to create a LSWR turnout library for 1891, 1908 and slip geometry and timbering. I have no completed the re-work and have have included the plane here for others information. The latest plan bears more that a passing resemblence to Swanage (albeit shorted and the goods yard compressed) I moved the engine shed from the original Swanage plan, since it did not look right on my compressed layout. I do realise the headshunt is far too short, however due to space restrictions the plan is to continue the headhsunt "offstage" into the fiddle yard. Initially it may appear the spacing between the adjacent tracks is a little wide, (15' 2 ...
... with O-NMRA but during the tutorial when I saved a template, the system asked if I really want to change T-55. I have no idea how it got there. 2. I wanted to start over building the slip because I made a mistake. One way I did that was to ctrl-U to undo changes back to the beginning of the O-NMRA initial turnout. I got a new mint copy of the turnout and then did template>convert to half-diamond. But now the customize check rail option is marked but the check rail is still full size. I can mark the opposite options but nothing happens to the check rail. Also the extend timbers option also is marked but the timbers themselves cannot be changed. I tried changing to some other gauge and scale and come back to O NMRA but the problem still exists. I got out of it by shutting down Templot and saying no thanks to restoring previous session. 3. It appears that the parking bay holds only one item per bay. Is ...
... -- when you insert a turnout in them, you get the original turnout settings back. (Just one proviso. If the original turnout included shoved timbers, and you want to preserve them every time, ignore the above and use the align functions instead of insert. Your turnouts don't include shoved timbers, so you can disregard this.) regards, Martin. posted: 31 Mar 2010 06:30 from: BruceNordstrand That is excellent news, Thanks Martin. That is exactly what I am after. I have a custom designed (Autocad) drawing that I am placing track over and Templot seems to be the only product in existence that can come close to job. Just the driver needs better knowledge of it Cheers Bruce Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Inserting a turnout... how to control WHICH turnout.... about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners ...
349. My First Points
... the switch is an REA design). Whether I should have done that is moot. "Minting" is intended to return your template to a "generic" design for your chosen company prototype, removing any changes likely to be specific to a single template. For example any timber shoving is reset, but not the flare length on the wing and check rails which is likely to be constant across all crossings for that company. In practice deciding what should or shouldn't be minted is not easy. I suspect many users of customized templates don't ever use the minting process. I'm minded to change minting to the more specific case of returning the design entirely to the default REA bullhead settings? Which would mean disabling it if the switch is not currently set to an REA bullhead size, including disabling it for all FB, GWR and straight switch options. Comments welcome. regards, Martin. posted: 1 Feb 2011 18:56 from: BeamEnds Hi Martin, thanks for looking into it. The double slip check rails is probably a blunder on my ...
... Acrobat can fully open it. Details are as follows (questions borrowed from another thread): Which version of Windows are you using? XP, SP-3 How much memory do you have on your computer? 2Gb Which version of Templot? v0.91c Which make and model of printer? Adobe PDF and Win2PDF (free) What print quality/resolution options are available on the printer and which one are you using? I've tried down to 150dpi with a 1 bit (B &W) image. Page size is a custom called Templot at 156" x 36". What is the scale of the map? How big is the track plan? Map is a 33ft/ 1" block plan- track plan is 156" x 36". What is the size of the .bmp image file? Original scan started at 92Mb, reduced gradually by changes in colour depth to 11Mb. Plan rescanned on my new A3 scanner in greyscale and joined and despeckled in Paintshop Pro, 33Mb. None of these variants will print. Please note that Templot ...
351. Constrained Tandem
... : can anyone either upload or provide links to further pics or drawings of this or other examples as I would like to know how it would have been built in practice, especially in terms of the fixing of the end of the check whilst still leaving the switch free to hinge. Just a Templot question: how can I "force" joints to appear where I have artificially shortened the rails- for example between the switch and the crossing above? (I am hoping that there is a better answer than the feared "custom switch" dialogue box- though that of course is exactly what I am creating!) Many thanks, Howard. posted: 19 Feb 2011 10:27 from: Martin Wynne Hi Howard, A pic from the Scalefour Society web site: chairs04.jpg© Scalefour Society Linked from and more excellent pics at: http://www.scalefour.org/resources/trackdetails.html There are details and a drawing of GWR check lumps on pages 42-43 of David Smith's bible: http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/gwsg/GWRSG_Publications.html The lump rail ...
... -rail offset at the tangency point (which becomes the CTRL-1 peg position): 2_191018_320000000.png 1. Nominally, gaunt turnouts are used to terminate a length of gauntletted track. But they are far more useful than that: 2. Adjusting the gaunt offset changes the radius through the turnout side of a curviform V-crossing without changing the crossing angle. This makes a gaunt turnout extremely useful as a partial template in complex formations. At present the only way to change that radius is by messing about with an invisible custom switch, which is tedious and non-intuitive. The mouse action above modifies the turnout radius smoothly and visibly. Whether users will be able to find it, with the strange name "adjust gaunt offset", is a different matter -- hence the need for a keyboard shortcut (SHIFT+ F12). 3. A gaunt turnout can be used to represent a stub switch. 4. By setting the gaunt offset to zero you can replicate "toy" set-track turnouts, and the more primitive types ...
... parallel wings: 1870_031520_550000000.jpg Here's a clearer picture on RMweb showing a parallel wing crossing: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/gallery/image/14841-fabricated-parallel-wing-xing/ Full-size version: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/1266273518/gallery_7181_438_43278.jpg To do them in Templot you would omit the check rail on the one template, split the the wing rail out on the other template as a separate partial template, and increase its wing rail reach length at real> customize V-crossing> wing and check rails... menu item. regards, Martin. posted: 5 Mar 2011 19:02 from: geoff Martin, Thanks for your reply. The parallel wings are sort of understandable for the fast-slow crossover shown in the photograph but the parallel wings in the down slow line where trains are moving straight ahead still intrigue me. I wondered whether it was related to expected speed through the crossover. The trains arriving at Rhyl used to go quite smartly through the fast- ...
354. Templot Crash
... or shoving timbers it also puts a heavy load on the CPU. A little later I managed to get this message :- 2001_171944_160000000.png closely followed by :- 2001_171945_500000000.png I only had the single track item on the go with no background images or anything like that. I had been playing around with rail lengths trying to figure out how to get 30' track panels with 12" joint sleepers and 10" for the rest of the panel( 32mm O scale) and had tried to save the current settings into one of the custom locations. The memory available when it gave the error was about the same as in the Task Manager 'shot' above. Regards Rob posted: 18 Mar 2011 17:05 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: 2001_171945_500000000.png Hi Rob, Thanks for the detailed report and capturing the screenshots. As far as I can remember this is the first time I have seen that message appear in normal use since the day I wrote it. I had to do a bit of digging in the code to remember how it is triggered ...
355. Paste?
... the menu instead of the right, where these things usually seem to appear- but I guess they won't fit there for the items that open sub-menus. Maybe you could just ignore the Windows settings and display the underlines anyway? A bit rude perhaps, but then other applications seem to do it I put them on the left because that is the only simple way to get them in a neat column. The proper solution is to set the menu to OwnerDraw. That ignores the Windows settings and allows me to make custom menus with fonts, colours, icons, etc. But it's a lot of programming work and out of the question for the entire menu structure. I may perhaps consider doing it for just this menu though. The accelerator key could then be in bold colour in a box or some such, rather than an underline. For the shove timbers dialog, I will detect the keys separately instead of relying on the accelerator keys on the buttons. Thanks for letting me know that you are not seeing them. regards, Martin ...
... the entire turnout road could be fitted into. It's the radius normally quoted by manufacturers of commercial turnouts. The rails don't actually follow this curve exactly because of the effect of the switch deflection angle, and the different types of V-crossing. There is a video explaining substitution radius at: http://www.templot.com/martweb/videos/subs_rad.exe The internal geometrical radius is also quoted for complete information. It represents the "average" radius up to the nose of the vee only. It is useful when matching a custom turnout design to some older types of pre-grouping, industrial and narrow-gauge turnouts. 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> Turnout information sheet 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 ...
... there? And how do I get rid of it? Hi Richard, As Jim suggests, the most likely explanation for a timber so far outside the template boundary is that it has been shoved there. To remove it, start the shove timbers function -- real> shove timbers menu item. Then click on the number of this sleeper (not the sleeper itself). The sleeper will turn red. Then click the restore timber button. Hide the shove timbers dialog. Another possible reason is that you are using a custom plain track setting with some significant error in the sleeper spacings. However, I think in that case you would have noticed other anomalies and strange effects much sooner. Your .box file upload seems to have failed. If you try again to upload your file, we can say for sure where this sleeper has come from. The option to shove timbers outside the template boundary allows some useful effects -- you can use shoved timbers to represent trackside structures which will then move with the template, like this: shoved_structures.png These rectangles ...
... web site contains a virus. (Along with another 39,530 web sites on the same hosting provider!) This was caused by an AVG fault. It has now been corrected -- please make sure you obtain the latest AVG update. Here are the details: 2011 Network Status Alerts AVG False Positive Virus Notification 15 Apr 2011 Update 1:14 PM- AVG have now released an update that resolves this issue. If you are still experiencing this problem then you should download today's update via your AVG client. Some customers using the AVG anti-virus software may find that their website is being reported as containing a virus. We have contacted AVG about this who have confirmed that this is a false-positive as a result of a flawed update recently released by them. They intend to correct this as soon as possible. Martin. posted: 16 Apr 2011 22:07 from: Judi R AVG have a history of false positives and I found, from personal experience, that their software was becoming more and more demanding on my 5 ...
... down by clicking the up-arrow in the top left corner. I agree it's too wordy though for an alert. That stuff needs to be in the help notes instead. regards, Martin. posted: 28 May 2011 09:54 from: Martin Wynne Here's a trick you can do with an irregular half-diamond. By using a much flatter K-crossing then the V-crossing, you can create a short turnout of typical industrial or narrow-gauge pattern. This is much quicker than creating a proper custom switch, and allows for easy adjustment of the turnout size. Just add some plain track for the switch front. Here's one created using 1:18 for the K-crossing and 1:4 for the V-crossing. Easily adjusted using F10 and F9 to any size you like: 2_280439_210000000.png Because it's actually a half-diamond you are restricted to equalized timbering, but that could be squared up if necessary with some timber shoving. Not suitable for running lines of course. A 1:18 curved switch is ...
... please assure us that this will only ever be for development versions? Hi Paul, Yes, it's only for TDV. There is no reason for it on the full versions. It would be unjustifiable where users have paid for full access to the program. And just to reassure you, TDV doesn't send anything at all, it merely fetches an authorisation code. By the way, the new update has swapped to a UK server, which has much shorter ping times for UK users. Jim in Ohio offers much better hosting customer service, but he can't do anything about the physical distance. regards, Martin. posted: 21 May 2011 22:25 from: Paul Boyd Hello Martin I've spotted another quirk with TDV. If you're adjusting the length of a template, for instance, then hit Ctrl-V to store, the mouse action dialogue box stays open and active- on 0.91c it closes. Also, the control template disappears so I need to hit Home to make it reappear. This becomes an irritant when using partial templates as you ...
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