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21. Thunderbird - OT
... I suppose I have used my transfer from OE to Thunderbird as a chance> to spring clean my email setup. Hi, I seem to have blundered my way to getting Thunderbird to work and I do like the layout and the way it works. However, (and you guess this was coming), I still have two problems unresolved, despite three days of reading the online help files at intervals. Could anyone advise in plain English please? 1. I cannot create a signature and presumably then find a way of inserting it automatically. My preferred signature is Regards Brian Lewis Carrs- C+ L Finescale www.finescale.org.uk Tel:+ 44 1 275 852 027 Fax:+ 44 1 275 810 555 With the www. etc. being a live link. 2. I would prefer the date and time was shown fully, i.e. giving the day- Monday, Tuesday, etc. Despite creating a 'user.js' file and inserting the rquired 'user_pref.... etc. nothing happens. I can live with 2. but 1. is ...
... your problems very well! I can give a few quick tips that I have found easy to understand though. Many of the tutorial are done by "old timers" (no offence intended) who do things in ways that beginners find difficult to follow- a bit like pre-Windows users who stick to all the things they had to use before mice were invented. Firstly, it is often best to start an awkward piece of track as plain track. Get it on the alignment you want, then use Template/Insert turnout to put a turnout in the formation. From there, you can use the mouse buttons near the top of the screen- Roam is particularly useful- to move the turnout along the plain track, for example. For a simple crossover, you can use the Tools/Make simple crossover once you have created the first turnout. If the turnout appears at the wrong end of the plain track, click on the F/T button at top right of the screen. You can then use Roam to move it ...
... the deep end. I keep saying this to new users. Please, please, first learn to use Templot by creating lots of freelance track plans so that you know what can be done and how things work. regards, Martin. posted: 8 Oct 2013 10:57 from: Ian Allen Andrew, Sometimes, it is easier to make adjustments to a section of track by copying it and working on the copy. That way you can adjust it in any way without affecting the original. This can also help when inserting points and diamond crossings. I have adjusted your box file and re-posted it, and you can see that there is now a point and a diamond crossing in roughly the right area that you need on the transition curve. Firstly, you need to make your other running line, With the transition curve selected (Wipe to Control), TOOLS> Make double track TS and then store that template. Then returning to the original transition curve template do this, TEMPLATE> insert point into plain track. Then, ...
... several images in a message, instead of the present attachment limit of only one per message (or needing to sign up with another web site to store your images). Note however that it is only for images -- photos, screenshots, drawings, diagrams, etc. The gallery won't accept .box and .bgs files which must still use the existing attachment mechanism. To include an image in your message this way, do this: 1. Upload it to the Image Gallery. 2. Write your message and click the Insert image from Gallery button: 2_091807_120000000.png 3. Your images will be displayed -- select the required image by clicking on it. It will appear immediately in your message. Repeat for each image which you want to include. Including images this way is preferable to adding an attachment, because they are stored outside of the database. This makes the database much smaller and faster. Here's the link to the Image Gallery. It should be fairly self-explanatory -- click the Upload Images link to upload your images in the ...
... second is to update the content to reflect Templot2. Perhaps it is timely to marshal the goodwill and talent of Templot users to deal with the first need?. One way to do this would be to form a squad of volunteers to trawl the threads and identify essential texts. Suggested process: a. A list of volunteers is created. b. Each are allocated thread(s) to investigate and report. [thus reducing duplication] c. The report could contain an alphabetical list of links which could be collated and inserted into the index.[ These index entries would need a health warning about version differences] d. Selected volunteers could be tasked with drafting instructions for your subsequent approval. This could perhaps include quick guides which contain little more than the sequence of commands.[ A format similar to that used in flight reference card checklists used in aviation] e. Threads could be prioritised, based on recent query posts. f. Another small set of volunteers could "flight test" draft guide sections, and report any difficulties, errors ...
... complex layout!) 3. Hit "END" to hide lables 4. Zoom to work area. [Minor niggle- why can't the scroll wheel zoom action centre on the mouse cursor rather than the centre of the screen?] Then battle can commence- my working method;- 1. Hit END 2. Hold down Shift and hover over lables 3. Click on desired label and release Shift 4. Hit T 5. Hit END and zoom to the action area 6. Do something amazingly powerful 7. Hit INSERT Repeat If I get to the point where there is not anything else to be done for a moment or two, I just hit F7 (without hitting T first) and drag the mouse: the Control makes itself known and I drop it in a blank bit of screen. It will disappear the next time I hit T. Now that is my way of doing it and I can hear everyone saying "I don't do it that way" and that is exactly my point- how do you get a new user ...
... straight i can use the s curve transition to get across to the other straight section. I think all i need then is a transition from the other straight to s curve. I'll post a picture later. Ray. posted: 6 Jan 2012 13:24 from: Martin Wynne r_wilton wrote: Martin, i did look at the slewing function but was put off by the notes as I want to add a 3 way turnout and double slip along the length of the s bend. Hi Ray, The notes about not inserting a turnout in a slewing zone are perhaps a bit too severe. I wrote them a long time ago. In practice everything depends on the actual circumstance -- the amount of slew and length of slewing zone. Alternatively you can build up what you want using 3 transition curve templates -- easement from straight to first curve; S-curve transition from first curve to second curve; easement from second curve to straight. Use the make transition functions to create the central S-curve (remembering to move the outer ...
... from: BruceNordstrand Well, I have finally got the hang of things and am now going great guns on Templot. So far I have completed all the levels on my new RR- the town, staging, lower branch level and upper branch level. I have mastered (so to speak) the various transition options including playing with 1st and 2nd transition zones and the basics of track laying onto background scans. I probably do it a little differently than most in as much as I lay out curves and straights first and then insert turnouts where required. Still haven't confidently got to grips with the whole notch and peg thing yet, just use the basics. So a big kudos to Martin for writing Templot, it has finally succumbed to my whims and allowed me to visually see my track full size plus have a fantastic base to build upon- no more fixed number straight turnouts where they aren't welcome! Cheers Bruce posted: 5 Apr 2010 11:16 from: Paul Boyd Hi Bruce I probably do it a little differently than most in as much ...
... topic: 3831 Insert a straight in curved irregular diamond? posted: 8 Dec 2020 16:00 from: Julian Roberts Hi Martin As you saw on the Scalefour Forum, I'm making a curving irregular single slip for my Kyle project. http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f =5 &t =7028&start=25 You explained that the K crossings on a curving diamond have to be within limits, and at 1:7.5 I'm outside the limit in P4, though in S4 it might be OK. As I see it I've got three options :- 1 Ignore your warning and carry on regardless (I'm not getting any derailments on extensive testing of propelled vehicles, nor any other except a bit of hopping where wheels prove to have incorrect BB. However, it is possible to manually steer a vehicle the "wrong way", including a coach bogie) 2 Convert to switched K crossings- which is not realistic, as the photo shows 3. Redesign the crossing- the assembly is far from complete. ...
... good bit of experience of it and I'm using OO -SF. Plan track will be Smp or C&L /exactoscale etc The base layout was built up,in trax3 to get a feel for the space needed and the compromises etc. Now that I basically comfortable with Templot. I intend to lay the whole of the visual trackwork up in templot. Questions( a) should I start by laying out all the plain track in Templot( 6 parallel roads, a diverging twin track throat etc) and then" insert" the crossovers and other turnouts. Or( b) start with the central track work and proceed to work left and right adding turnouts as I go etc. This is about templot, not about how I lay the actual track. My main issue is to get the main trackwork in place in Templot, to confirm my baseboard dimensions, but I want to avoid as much as possible the reiteration that occurs when you move something on a large design. Thanks Dave posted: 27 Mar 2015 10:35 from: ...
... radii. But you can also select plain track, either straight or with a choice of radii. You can also select the default turnout which appears when you start up Templot and use the "Template/Convert to plain Track" menu item when you are left with a plain track based on the main route through the template. To get the track straight, use the F6 Curving facility and type in a very high radius value- like 1000000- and you get your line straight. I don't think Martin allowed for the insertion of infinity. Jim. Last edited on 15 Sep 2017 10:59 by Jim Guthrie posted: 15 Sep 2017 11:52 from: Tony McGartland Thanks Jim and John, will try that. Cheers posted: 15 Sep 2017 12:00 from: Martin Wynne Jim Guthrie wrote: The quickest way is to use the Quick dialog box which you can call up with Ctrl-Q. Hi Jim, Or click the NEW button at the top of the screen. To get the track straight, use the F6 ...
... topic: 1182 Inserting a diamond crossing posted: 27 Jul 2010 23:13 from: Paulr1949 Hello all I am trying to create a templot plan of a 7mm NG/SG layout as a learning curve(!). It contains a number of diamond crossings, two or three of which I would like to recreate now. On the attached (hopefully) box file it can be seen where I am trying to do it, but I can't seem to get the angles anywhere close. I have tried shift+ F1 to insert a diamond, and "Insert half-diamond in straight track". I must be doing something wrong- can anybody help? I am not sure if the background shapes (which are bitmaps of the track plan) will load with the box file, so I am attaching them to a separate entry Hopefully Paul Attachment: attach_829_1182_NOGv91c_10_07_27_2 305_20.box 211 posted: 27 Jul 2010 23:15 from: Paulr1949 And here is the BGS file... Attachment: attach_830_1182_NOG_3_boards_v2.bg s 201 posted: 27 Jul 2010 23: ...
... . What's different? Am I mad? But they ought to be the same? Hi Richard, One has a generic type of V-crossing and the other has a regular type of V-crossing: gen_xing.gif reg_xing.gif Full details at: http://www.templot.com/martweb/gs_realtrack.htm#xing_types regards, Martin. posted: 10 Oct 2010 22:15 from: Richard Spratt I'd guessed it was something to do with the crossing. But what I don't understand is that I made both templates one after the other by inserting them into previously drawn straight templates and they got different crossing types? posted: 9 Feb 2011 07:46 from: Gordon S Whilst searching for the answer, I came across this and am unsure if this is the same process. If I take a 1000mm radius circle and insert a turnout, the radius comes out at 1000mm as you would expect. The turnout is an A5. However, if I now draw a straight line which is tangental to the 1000mm circle and then insert a turnout in the straight line ...
... into two components. This part I have called the "stand": 2_241233_460000000.png It sets the gauge-face of the rail by locating the foot of the rail*. This assumes of course that the rail foot is the same width as the head. If not there will be a gauge_tweak setting to make final adjustments to the chair position. *vertical rail. I'm not getting into the madness of inclined rail, which in my view is unbuildable in small scale models. Behind the stand there will be an "web insert" component in the rail web, which will be dimensioned to match the rail section, in the same way as the key on the other side. The two parts of the jaw will blend together in the final render. The central rib on the REA drawing is more difficult to replicate simply than the ribs on the outer jaw. I think I have got somewhere near without getting too involved in 3D blends which would require dozens of additional facets. An important consideration for models is to keep it below the wheel flanges ...
... wrote: box file attached with 45ft panels. Many thanks Alan. (From which, spacings are 12"+ 27.5"+ 29"+ 13 spaces of 31"+ 29"+ 27.5" (+ 12"), end sleepers widened to 12" width.) p.s.1. Alan has widened all the joint sleepers up to 5 metres of template length. If you extend a copied template beyond that, you will need to widen the remaining joint sleepers (using the shove timbers functions). p.s.2. If you insert a turnout in this plain track, you will retain the lengths and spacings in any approach or exit track, but lose the widened joint sleepers. The solution to that is either to widen them individually, or in 091b and later you can to split off the approach and exit tracks as separate templates, and then align a copy of the library template over them -- peg/ align tools> align the control template over background template> facing-facing menu item, choose the delete option for the existing background template ...
... topic: 1303 Another new user of Templot posted: 9 Dec 2010 11:33 from: Tim Chapman The drawing pad on 74b has the following menu headings: control generator track geometry adjust tools pad print help but your "create a track plan" tutorial headings are different: control generator template real geometry action do tools pad print help When trying to use your "create a track plan" tutorial instructions, the different headings stop my progress when I want to "insert a turnout in plain track". Your tutorial's arrow goes to "template" but I can't do that because I do not have that heading and none of the other headings has "insert a turnout in plain track" in their menu. Is there a version of this tutorial that is compatible with 74b please? Tim posted: 9 Dec 2010 11:56 from: Martin Wynne Hi Tim, Welcome to Templot Club.____ The static "track plan tutorial" is at: http://www.templot.com/martweb/tut5a.htm and uses version 074b of ...
37. Code Formatting
... provide faint vertical lines on the left showing each level of indentation, which makes it a doddle, but Lazarus is not one of them Perhaps using 3 or 4 spaces for indentation would make it more obvious? (I generally use 4 but I noticed that you had used 2 quite a lot, so I left Lazarus set at 2.) One change I would prefer if it's possible, would be a blank line below "procedure..."/"function..."? There is an option to insert above these headers, but not below. I DID find a setting which removes blank lines above, so we could turn that off. What I would like to see is a way of inserting the comment line of underscores that you have before each procedure, which is another thing I normally do, and I find it helps enormously. Again, no dice in Jedi. You probably noticed that I already sometimes put ends below a block rather than strictly below the begin. But in that case I often comment the end ...
... use to calculate the required twist angle. This is what to do to align two bitmap images: 1. Scan the sections with plenty of overlap, so that there is some chosen feature which appears on both of them. 2. Create picture shapes to contain the images and load the bitmap files into them. Click the? HELP button for more information about how to do this. If images overlap, remember that picture shapes are displayed in the order listed. When a new shape is added to the list it is inserted immediately below the one currently selected in the list. In this way you can arrange the images to overlap in the desired order. 3. It is usually helpful to display one of the images transparently. Select it in the list and then tick the MODIFY SHAPE:> PICTURE CONTENT:> TRANSPARENT tickbox. You may need to set a lighter workpad "paper" colour for this to be effective. 4. Using any of the normal LINE SHAPE functions add a marker line along the chosen feature on the image which ...
... topic: 3013 Make a crossover from straight to curved track posted: 16 Apr 2017 11:36 from: Panos Tsirigotis Hello there. Although I am about to complete my track plan (with all the imperfections it has), there is a specific spot marked with a red cirlce in the attached screenshot which I cannot bridge. It is a crossover from straight to curved track. My problem is that I want to insert a curved turnout with it's curvature oriented at the track's curve (If you know what I mean). It seems that the inserted turnout in the curved track has an opposite curvature. (Or there is an optical illusion?) .Is there any other shortcut to make this crossover? thank you in advance Attachment: attach_2416_3013_Crossover_2.jpg 308 posted: 16 Apr 2017 12:08 from: Tony W Hi Panos. I would try to link the two ends with a piece of plain track and get the alignment right first and then insert a turnout into it, after which you can play around with the handedness and curvature of ...
40. Getting Started
... the wording changed slightly in the interests of clarity, but all the previous functions are still available. If you can't find something, just ask here. For instance on page 32 Sorry, I can't find that. Can you say which screen diagram number you mean? The page sizes change on different computers. it tells me to create a turnout (on the approach to the platform), then to change the radius, but I can't see how to do that in the new version. The usual way is template> insert turnout in plain track menu item. Then to curve it you use the F6 mouse action, or click the geometry> radius and curving... menu item to set the radius directly. Another example is from page 20, I can not get the curve to go positive, so my platform line starts heading for the top right hand corner of the screen, rather than the gentle arc across the bottom of the screen. Use the F6 mouse action to bend it down to the desired curve. There is more ...
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