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21. DXF and beyond
... DoubleCAD is from the makers of TurboCad, and is intended to be a direct replacement for AutoCad LT. I don't know AutoCad and I'm very happy with TurboCad. But if you know AutoCad and want a free program using the same interface for use with Templot's exported DXF files, DoubleCAD looks to be ideal. regards, Martin. posted: 11 Oct 2009 14:59 from: Jonathan Wells A couple of days ago I downloaded and installed the free version of Google Sketchup which is version 7.1 and discovered that it DOES NOT import or export DXF files!! You need to install and pay for the Pro version to be able to import and export DXF files! I do have TurboCad 8 on my machine and might try one of the others mentioned above. Last edited on 11 Oct 2009 15:00 by Jonathan Wells posted: 11 Oct 2009 21:23 from: Martin Wynne Jonathan Wells wrote: A couple of days ago I downloaded and installed the free version of Google Sketchup which is version 7.1 and discovered that it DOES NOT import or ...
... 41 from: Paul Hamilton Hi all, Just a query really. I have a track plan that a friend did for me in XtrkCAD. I don't have this program but I do have a pdf of it. As such, I was wondering on the best approach to take this plan and create my layout in Templot. I am assuming that Templot will give me the advantage of fitting turnouts to curves etc that XtrkCAD couldn't do because it was using Peco Stremaline templates to create the track in the first place. Should I import the plan in as a back ground image (I see plenty of help on this particular topic around the forum so I am not asking for assistance on this aspect- yet!) and then overlay templot EM track work to suit the general "feel" of the plan or is there a better way? I do have C. Freezer's original track plan image too however it had to be compressed by 6" in one direction and 12" in another direction so it would not be simply a case of laying over ...
... asked several people if I said something was irregular, would they think there was something wrong with it? Everyone said yes. Nigel is of course quite correct in his answer it is a matter of context. The generel sense of the replies you have received here is to stay with "irregular" and this is my vote. However if it bothers you I suggest you don't waste any time on this, call it what you like. As far as I am concerned you can call it a "wonky crossing" the important thing is a clear and concise description of what it is and how to create one. My final 2c worth. regards, ken posted: 21 May 2010 19:48 from: John Lewis Ken wrote: The general sense of the replies you have received here is to stay with "irregular" and this is my vote. Silly(?) suggestion- Perhaps you could have a pop-up box that appears saying something like: "An irregular crossing is merely one where the four crossing angles differ from one ...
... topic: 1278 Importing Background Shape (Picture) posted: 31 Oct 2010 14:57 from: David Higgs I'm trying to import a Map into Templot of Moretonhamstead which I believe is to a scale of 1:25000. The GIF File is 2164 W x 1008H with a Bit Depth of 24. When importing to Templot I believe I need to know the DPI, how do I find this information or have I got it completely wrong Regards David posted: 31 Oct 2010 15:56 from: Martin Wynne David Higgs wrote: I'm trying to import a Map into Templot of Moretonhamstead which I believe is to a scale of 1:25000. The GIF File is 2164 W x 1008H with a Bit Depth of 24. When importing to Templot I believe I need to know the DPI, how do I find this information or have I got it completely wrong Hi David, In the current versions of Templot you can't use GIF files, you need to save it again in BMP format. Save it in the C:\TEMPLOT\ ...
... topic: 2865 Importing track plans from old-maps.co.uk posted: 4 Apr 2016 02:46 from: DerekStuart This has been discussed before, I know, but I can't find it here, 'the other place' or anywhere on google. It seems that old-maps.co.uk has taken to only offering downloads as PDF's now- and in A3. I can't scan that in and if possible I would prefer not to scan it as 2 parts. There are various tools on the internet that claim to be able to turn PDFs into BMPs. Has anyone any experience of them please? I am apprehensive about using a service from a company that I've never seen or heard of before. I did try a quick test using screen grab but I suspect something is causing it to scale incorrectly or distort. As ever, any suggestions from anyone appreciated. posted: 4 Apr 2016 09:26 from: Dave Summers Derek When you buy your map, you have the option of purchasing an email .pdf copy so the work is done for you! Dave ...
26. DXF Import
... topic: 3806 DXF Import posted: 1 Nov 2020 21:11 from: Thomas Clarke A friend of mine kindly drew out to EM scale track plan of Eardisley station in Autocad. When I imported the dxf file into Templot it was the right scale but something weird happend to the file when it was imported as can be seen in the Eardisley JPG when in fact it should looked like 3.JPG. It has also placed it a long way away from the track template 1.JPG and produce some separate shapes located in the bottom right hand corner 2.JPG. Any idea what might be causing this to happen. 3704_011607_460000000.jpg 1.JPG 3704_011609_360000000.png 2.JPG 3704_011610_150000000.png 3.JPG 3704_011610_530000000.png Eardisley.JPG posted: 1 Nov 2020 21:48 from: Martin Wynne Hi Thomas, Welcome to Templot Club. Please could you post your DXF file( .dxf) as an attachment? It's difficult to see what's happening from your screenshots. The attachment button is below the post editor panel. cheers, Martin. posted: 2 Nov 2020 00:44 from: Thomas Clarke Hi Martin Templot BG. dxf ...
... topic: 441 Backound shapes selecting and renaming posted: 20 May 2008 17:48 from: George Ray I have imported some curved baseboard outlines as background shapes. The import was in DXF format, when I open the shape box there are several thousand shapes each only a small length, is there a way of selecting and renaming more than one shape so that I can easily identify which shape belongs to which curved edge. It would be nice to be able to select a background shape on the templot drawing so that it coul be identified on the list. Does anyone have any ideas. Is my problem that I shouldn't have imported as a DXF but perhaps as a bit map. posted: 20 May 2008 21:21 from: Martin Wynne George Ray wrote: I have imported some curved baseboard outlines as background shapes. The import was in DXF format, when I open the shape box there are several thousand shapes each only a small length, is there a way of selecting and renaming more than one shape so that I can easily ...
28. Templot docs
... 2010 09:13 from: Howard Raymond wrote:... It would be best to view it with centre lines disabled as I have used single rails to mark out limits and buildings. That's a nice idea- how do you set single rails? Howard. posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:58 from: Raymond For instance: The platform edge was done by copying the adjacent track, then 'no timbering' followed by omitting one rail then using F7 to move it about or F8 to slew it. It is important the the snap function is switched off. F4 and F6 will do the rest. Don't bother with it until your track is pretty much as you want it so that you do not need the centre lines. Regards Raymond posted: 28 Jan 2010 10:24 from: Howard Raymond wrote:...followed by omitting one rail that's the bit I don't see! How do you omit one rail? Howard. posted: 28 Jan 2010 10:47 from: Martin Wynne Howard wrote: that's the bit I don't see ...
... . DELETE key is now do> snap to zero (invalidate) menu item, i.e. the same as clicking the red Z tool-button. This is a toggle -- pressing it again undeletes. This allows beginners to "get rid of" the control template, which was something frequently asked for. You can't actually get rid of it of course -- this simply reduces its length to zero and displays the fixing peg as a big red Z symbol. In that condition it can't be stored, which is important when working in Quick-mode. PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys now swap between Quick-mode and classic Templot modes, the same as clicking the Q/ T button, or the main> click-mode options> menu options. I'm looking for a shortcut for reset notch on datum, but at present there are none free. Suggestions welcome. Which easy-to-use existing one could be sacrificed? I've got my eye on CTRL+\ (currently do> plain track> snap to nearest sleeper ...
30. Import DXF
... topic: 502 Import DXF posted: 25 Jul 2008 13:14 from: Alan Turner Martin, I am trying to import a DXF file. My problem is that most but not the entire file comes in. This includes some of the lines representing the track. My problem is that I don't really understand what I am doing with the DXF file. I have TurboCAD but don't really know how to use it. Help appreciated. Alan posted: 26 Jul 2008 13:02 from: richard_t Alan Turner wrote: I am trying to import a DXF file. My problem is that most but not the entire file comes in. This includes some of the lines representing the track. My problem is that I don't really understand what I am doing with the DXF file. I have TurboCAD but don't really know how to use it. Help appreciated. Templot, and other software, doesn't implement "CLOSED" lines. (I know some etching companies don't like CLOSED lines either) [If you think of a square, this can be ...
... all. (This is not a deliberate failing generally. People are just different from each other. Patience is the rule here). Regardless how you go about it there are always two caveats with any teaching/learning method. 1). The material must be structured. It must never assume that the student "knows" certain information. It must be streamlined. If there are 30 ways of getting the same result, you only explain the one method. The only method. (Lying to your student is an import ant part of teaching. Eventually you tell them the truth but until they are ready the KISS principle applies). Keep the number of new concepts to the absolute minimum. It must build in a logical order, adding new skills or information in easily worked segments. For maximum effectiveness there should also be a corresponding exercise set to drill these newly acquired skills. The student should be able to find the explanation/exercise/tutorial easily. 2). It requires practice! Regular working of the tutorial exercises, each ...
... topic: 3167 Importing a PDF on Applemacbook posted: 1 Jan 2018 12:19 from: roythebus I'm using an applemac to run Templot through wine, it seems to work ok. I'm trying to import an Frank Dyer track plan that's been scanned to a PDF and sits neatly on my desktop. When I go to the bit in Templot that lets me import a photo or whatever, the dialog box on the left doesn't seem to let me access the place where the pdf is. Am I missing something (apart from a few screws loose).. It's obviously not a map that's being imported from the net so I didn't try that option. It's not in "photos", documents or anywhere visible in Wine. posted: 1 Jan 2018 21:11 from: Martin Wynne Hi Roy, You can't import a PDF directly into Templot. A PDF file is a wrapper container for other content such as images, drawings, text, etc. Some PDF reader programs let you extract the contained images, or export the page as ...
... topic: 667 An important announcement by C+ L Finescale posted: 21 Dec 2008 00:06 from: Brian Lewis An important announcement by C+ L Finescale Whilst watching Norman Solomon building turnouts on the latest Activity Media DVD- constructing templates, sticking down timbers, etc.- I was struck by the thought that I was doing this 40 years ago. Locomotives and rolling stock are so much more accurate that they were even ten years ago? So why haven't available track components reflected this improvement? Folk still create trackwork by building individual turnouts and 'stitch' them together with plain track using 'one size fits all' generic track templates. Surely we can do better than this? Well we have and as from the new year, a new era in track construction begins. Boat and aircraft kit manufacturers use lasers to cut components with amazing accuracy- as do model railway kit manufacturers in the US. It doesn't seem to happen here. But we are going to change all that. So for the past month I have been taking prototype track ...
... topic: 3791 How to import a track plan posted: 2 Oct 2020 22:01 from: roythebus Sorry to be a pain again, my own memory is fading with age. I'm trying to remember how to import a jpeg track plan into Templot. No doubt there's a helpful video somewhere but I can't remember where that is either! Basically I'm trying to import a couple of ancient Frank Dyer plans drawn at about 1" to the foot and do them in Templot. the plans are scaled and saved as jpeg. How do I get them as background shapes to start track planning? Thanks. posted: 2 Oct 2020 22:08 from: roythebus I've just scanned back through the search facility and found the original post from 2018 where Martin has kindly done one of the plans as a bgs for download. with the latest Mac updates the original wine files were lost. Let's try again! posted: 2 Oct 2020 22:22 from: Martin Wynne roythebus wrote: I'm trying to remember how to import a jpeg track plan into ...
35. DXF import
... topic: 971 DXF import posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:15 from: Al Crooks Hi folks, I'm having problems importing a dxf file from Adobe Illustrator, (CS2). I'm using 091c and following the the instructions in the help files and companion, but don't seem to be getting anywhere, I don't get any error messages, but my inserted object just isn't visible. I've made sure that background visibility is turned on in the pad menu, and tried playing with the background colour, but no joy. Are Illustrator files compatable? I've attached the file here for your perusal. Thanks in advance, Al Attachment: attach_686_971_baseboard.dxf 280 posted: 14 Nov 2009 13:47 from: Martin Wynne Hi Al, Welcome to Templot Club. The DXF import in Templot is fairly primitive, and is intended mainly for vectorized scans. It can't handle solids, and doesn't close polylines. It failed to import your Illustrator file. Sorry, I don't know anything about Illustrator files or its DXF export, so I tried importing your DXF into TurboCad ...
... topic: 1554 Image Output (PNG) Generation from the TDV posted: 3 Jul 2011 14:17 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Martin, I have a query on generating an output PNG image (or maybe any image using output in the TDV). I wanted an overview of my track plan and track-work combined so that I could import that into Autocad in order to modify a copy of the original station layout. It all appeared to work quite well, except that I found the top area of my track plan had been cut off (see attached files for clarity). The first image is what I actually wanted, and the second image is what was generated by the TDV. Now I adjusted the width dots from the default 4000 to 10050 to get the whole thing in view. However, there is no adjustment for the height of the image, what do I need to do to get the whole image I require. All the best, Brian Nicholls. 1853_030913_290000000.gif 1853_030914_360000000.gif posted: 3 Jul 2011 15:16 from ...
... generally: regards, Martin. Hi Martin, Looking good so far. A couple of points :- 1) You say "You probably already know the basics of UK pointwork geometry" in section 4- what are you assuming that people already know? It may help to be specific and say" if you know xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx then you are familiar with UK pointwork geometry" 2) I have said this before but once you have covered the absolute basics and brought people round to the Templot style I think it is important to give users some specific track design methods/worked examples as many may come to Templot( as Peco users wanting better prototype fidelity) and just want to design a single plan and then move off and build it only returning to Templot when the next new layout is due. The basic methods of making: Double track oval with passing loop and siding( like a Triang train set with a couple of track extension packs) Terminus station design- Minories type with double track/engine release/parels bay. Flowing single ...
... topic: 3049 XTrackCAD imports- Templot2 and Templot3 posted: 21 Jul 2017 19:27 from: Martin Wynne The free XTrackCAD program is still going strong after all these years, despite other free programs such as SCARM which have come since, and the popular free version of AnyRail. http://www.xtrkcad.org As far as I know, XTrackCAD and 3rd PlanIt (not free) are still the only other layout design programs which will export DXF files in a format which can be imported directly into Templot's background shapes as a design guide. This has the advantage over using a screenshot as a background picture shape in that you can zoom in without it becoming pixellated and so work to greater precision. So I thought I would post a new topic containing some old notes about this. There is an old page showing Templot tracks designed over a DXF import from XTrackCAD at: http://85a.co.uk/ision/rene_tandem.htm Like this: rene_tandem4.gif Note that the tracks shown in grey are background shapes imported from XTrackCAD, they are not Templot templates and ...
... topic: 205 Importing DXF files posted: 23 Oct 2007 20:47 from: richard_t With Templot 0.91B on Windows XP I'm trying to import the attached (R12) DXF file. It contains one PLINE with 5 segments; 4 of the segments are imported but the last isn't. I'm not sure if this is as it's the last segment, or because it's diagonal, or because it's a "close segment". I tried converting the close segment to a normal one, but it's still not imported. [EDIT] If I create the shapes with normal lines, all 5 lines are imported correctly. Would be nice to import the PLINE correctly though. Attachment: attach_117_baseboardtop.dxf 345 Last edited on 23 Oct 2007 20:51 by richard_t 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> Importing DXF files about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new ...
... attach_2700_3307_a6-chairs-test-Model.pdf 289 posted: 17 Jul 2018 18:31 from: Andrew Barrowman richard_t wrote: I've been doing similar, in 2D, using my cad program- I think I'd go slightly crazy doing a full plan, even though the chairs are blocks so they just need putting in the correct place. Attached is a simple A6 turnout, without the crossing chairs- it's a PDF, as the PNG I generated looked awful. Hi Richard, Did you draw it all in CAD or did you import a DXF from Templot? Andy posted: 17 Jul 2018 18:38 from: richard_t Everything bar the chair outlines is from Templot. I'm not that loopy (yet) :-) posted: 18 Jul 2018 05:35 from: Andrew Barrowman richard_t wrote: Everything bar the chair outlines is from Templot. I'm not that loopy (yet) :-) Correct answer! You get ten points (points, not turnouts) posted: 30 Jul 2018 17:14 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: ...
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