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... -res image to work from. Save it from your photo editor in Windows BMP format, into your Templot SHAPE-FILES folder. (Make sure the file name is not more than 40 characters.) If you post here again and attach your WMF file, and say which scale/gauge you are using, we can make more specific suggestions about the best image size to use and how to get it displaying at the correct size in Templot. A simpler option is to do a screen capture from your CAD (Print Screen key), paste it into your photo editor, and then save in BMP format. The snag there is that you are limited to your screen resolution for the image size. regards, Martin. posted: 9 Jul 2010 19:34 from: Alan Turner I would suggest not using the DXF option as a BMP image gives you greater flexibility. Alan posted: 10 Jul 2010 11:02 from: Brian Lewis I agree. Also DWG files are a much better option. Any chance of being able to ...
... May 2009 23:32 from: Brian Lewis Len Cattley wrote: Am I right in thinking that Iain Rice did a book on building track (I thought I had one but can't find it) or is this wishful thinking? I think Iain wrote two books Len- one on copperclad, the other finescale. But a better and more up to date book is 'Track Construction' by Jeff Geary and John Shaw. ISBN 0954203593 Jeff also wrote another book entitled 'Wiring the Layout'. Sadly, this is now out of print and apparently unlikely to be reprinted. So if you locate the former and see the latter, it would be worth purchasing it. Regards Brian Lewis posted: 13 May 2009 23:38 from: Martin Wynne Brian Lewis wrote: But a better and more up to date book is 'Track Construction' by Jeff Geary and John Shaw. ISBN 0954203593 Hi Len, I wrote a short review of that book at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/templot/message/3223 The book is now available from Kestrel ...
... better to do as Paul suggests and lay out the sweeping curves first, using the "make transition" function between them. That way you know everything is going to fit and your radius constraints will be met. You can then insert turnouts in the templates and continue as in the video to create each area of pointwork. But before doing any of that I would strongly suggest playing about with individual turnouts in the control template. Curving them; extending them; shortening them; trying different combinations of switch and crossing sizes; printing them out. That way you will have a much better understanding of what is and isn't possible and the options available to you, when you start inserting turnouts in your plan. Just ask if you get stuck. regards, Martin. posted: 4 Apr 2009 01:24 from: BruceNordstrand Thanks everyone, very helpful Paul, green as i haven't spent alot of time with Templot. I have actually owned it for a number of years (as Martin can attest to!) but have never "got into it ...
444. Changes in 217a
... ? See this post from John Hawtin: topic 3151- message 23083 Not cluttering the screen has always been a priority because track design needs every square inch it can get. I'm aware that some dialogs take up far too much room already. See the dummy vehicle dialog for example, which I'm planning to split in two. Not everyone has a widescreen monitor to spread out on. I was in two minds about the second row of beginner buttons. Most of the frequently-used functions do have keyboard shortcuts. If you print the F-key chart you will see that it matches exactly behind a standard-size Windows keyboard (assuming such things still exist). regards, Martin. posted: 16 Dec 2017 01:18 from: Martin Wynne Godfrey Earnshaw wrote: One thing I don't like but it doesn't matter much because of what I have said above is the reverse order of the keys; Ctrl-F5, Ctrl-F9, F8, F7, F6, F5, F4 Hi Godders, They are primarily intended as "beginner ...
... issue Might have known it was nothing new! It's on my list of things to do something about. Exactly what, I'm not sure. I guess providing a Templot message as appears in 0.74b would be good! I had a panic moment when I just got Microsoft's "Bog off" box with no meaningful error message. It was the Templot error box in 0.74b that gave me a clue. I guess this is a low priority fix though as I can't think why anyone would install Templot on a machine that has no print drivers installed in normal use! Cheers posted: 4 May 2009 21:02 from: John Lewis Just a thought coming from a deep ignorance of Templot programing, whould it be possible to proveide a simple generic (virtual?)printer driver that would be ignored in favour of whatever driver was on the system? posted: 4 May 2009 21:11 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: I guess providing a Templot message as appears in 0.74b would be good! Hi Paul, But the thing is, that ...
446. Widened Lines
... ? In the absence of any confirming evidence, I would be inclined to regard it as a mistake. An extra foot on every sleeper is an awful lot of unnecessary timber to pay for. There must be some photographs of these tracks from which we could compare dimensions? regards, Martin. posted: 20 Feb 2011 21:44 from: Adrian Marks And there was me thinking it was Brunel's influence... It is a strange dimension, and one I'm very close to dismissing as having been given, transcribed or printed in error. Tratman (ASCE Transactions 388 vol. xviii, June 1888), mentions the usual 8' 11" and 9' lengths, as well as an 8' 6", but no 10' lengths. However, Tratman's work encompassed only a small percentage of the Railway Companies of the period, and the Metropolitan was not one of them. Other evidence indicates that the Met. lines proper used 8' 11" sleepers so it would seem odd that its widened lines would be any different. I'm ...
... and untick the box for marks.) 3. You can get rid of them by not generating them. Untick the generator> generator settings> radial end marks menu item, and then click the generator> rebuild all background menu item. It's not recommended that you do that while you are still designing your track plan, you need those marks to know what you are doing. You also need them when constructing track on the templates if you use radius aids to set the fixed radii. But they are not wanted when printing a fair copy of the full track plan, so you can remove them before doing that. regards, Martin. posted: 24 Apr 2009 08:41 from: pimin Martin Wynne wrote: pimin wrote: My pad is full of triangles (arrow heads?) pointing at brackets "]". what are they called in Templot? can I toggle their appearance (on or off?) can I get rid of them (at least not display them, I can't see a lot of the track work through ...
... 2009 21:57 from: Martin Wynne William Adkins wrote: I thought I would cut my teeth on Templot by designing a Sn3 curved turnout 30" outside radius/28" inner radius. I entered data in a Honner Turnout Calculator and among other values I see that the frog angle is 3.58 degrees. Have others used the Honner Calculator and what values go where in Templot? Hi Bill, You won't need to design your turnouts using the David Honner's Turnout Calculator. Templot does all that for you, and you can print the resulting templates in much greater detail than the calculator provides. However, as you found Templot is currently biased towards UK prototype practice. You can prepare templates for any prototype, but non-UK ones need to be fully customized. You will find the prototype data in David Honner's file very useful for that. "England and America are two countries separated by a common language." Indeed. In this context the most important point to grasp is that in the UK and Templot, a "switch" is ONLY ...
... 480), however due to perhaps bad storage over the years (1921 to date) I found the plan had shrunk slightly and had to modify the scaling in Templot to 1:492 to correct for shrinkage. This ratio was determined in Templot by trial and error, using the ruler against the scaling bar of the background image and also measuring a known proto distance on the plan background image. Plan size (from original Tiff file): approx. 62" x 27" I say approx because when I had a print taken from the original file which was supposed to be 1:1, the local printer appears to have printed it just a tad under 1:1 so these dimensions were taken from that printout copy as an approximation. I have attached a PDF file named: error_report_09_02_2011.pdf which contains all the on screen messages, including the blue screen message photo art the time of the crash. Also if it would help, I can send you the system mini-dump files generated when the crashes occurred, please let me know if ...
... However, I do prefer the strength and ease of adjustment of soldered construction I think. Go with that method- it works! It's sometimes a good idea to scatter a few rivets at strategic points, but plastic chairs solvent glued onto ply sleepers are very strong. It might seem contradictory, but it's also relatively easy to loosen the chairs by slipping a blade underneath if you need to make adjustments. One issue with plastic chair/ply timber construction is that unsupported track can be distorted. I now get around that by printing the templates onto thick card (Bristol Board, 250gsm) and building onto that, then the card forms the trackbed. Cheers posted: 11 Mar 2010 18:19 from: Dellboy Paul Boyd wrote: I now get around that by printing the templates onto thick card (Bristol Board, 250gsm) and building onto that, then the card forms the trackbed. Paul That's an interesting way to do it. Presumably you have any underlay between the card& baseboard, and you glue the card down with Photo-mount ...
451. Downloading Problems
... topic: 3082 Downloading Problems posted: 23 Sep 2017 15:33 from: John Lee Having little success in working with Templot I had a track plan prepared by a professional trackmaker which was successfully downloaded and printed off on my printer. I have not used the files for some time but recently when I attempted to open them I got a panel appearing which read templot_ 215b_...exe 6.88 MB. A continuing series of panels appear and a message appears which reads "Access violation at address 00117A6 in module TEMPLOT.2.EXE Read od address 00000168" I have downloaded the latest version of Templot after having deleted my original version in case it had become infected, and attempted to import a new file prepared by the same person but with the same result. I cannot understand why after being able to successfully open up and print off files this happening. This is complete Double Dutch to me and I wondered if anyone else has had this problem and if there is any damage to my computer and if there is a cure. John Lee posted: 23 ...
... turnout, so that the turnout road forms part of the crossover, instead of the running line. This allows the running lines to form the ruling curves, with turnouts branching from them, in a more prototypical manner. Here I replaced the turnouts with plain track, to illustrate that. The grey tracks are your originals: 2_160434_510000000.png The curves include transition curves, which in some cases stray into the turnouts. That's not entirely prototypical, but in fitting a model into a small space is sometimes unavoidable. Once the template is printed, the fact that the curve through it is on a transition makes no practical difference to model construction. Would you like me to finish this and post the .box file? There isn't much point if your ideas are still in flux. For example I am mystified by your reference to a gravel shed? I have the tracks entering on the left as running lines at normal 6ft way. However I have a horrible feeling the upper track is in fact a siding, in which case it needs to be at 10ft way ...
... topic: 1348 Is it possible to "curve" a plan that has been created from a prototype scanned image posted: 21 Jan 2011 21:24 from: Steve Evans I have scanned a prototype track plan into templot and have added the track templates. Doing a print preview the layout would be over 14 feet in length in OO. The space that I have available is 9 feet on its longest length. I do not want to compromise on length because I want to run prototypically length trains so the easiest way to achieve this would be to "curve" the plan so that I can make it fit in a space 9 feet x 6 feet. Is this possible? I assume that I would just load the template plan without the background shape and then bend it somehow. Grateful for any advice. Regards, Steve posted: 21 Jan 2011 21:47 from: Martin Wynne Steve Evans wrote: I assume that I would just load the template plan without the background shape and then bend it somehow. Grateful for any advice. ...
... control template to form the second turnout of the crossover. If you are using Templot as a program to design a track plan, the track plan is built up as a collection of background templates, each one located in its position on the grid. If you are using Templot to create a collection of individual construction templates, it is better to store them as unused or library templates. They can then all remain on the initial template datum location, and you can copy them one at a time from the storage box for printing as the control template. This seemed to work but then all of the existing stored templates were changed to the same template. Am I doing this correctly? That doesn't sound right. There is no function which does that. Can you explain again? There are many ways to use Templot according to what you are trying to do. You can quickly snap together a track plan from standard templates in a few minutes, or spend days creating a single template matching a specific prototype. Are you trying to match one or ...
... topic: 3371 Trainset Point Planning posted: 10 Jan 2019 13:14 from: Bill Adlington I have an N Gauge Group that would find Templot and making points like Witchcraft but happily chop-up track over a printed plan. I can get along with Trax and use it well to make the best of set-points in a plan but the printing side of Trax complicated on larger plans. I am asking here (on 85A) if it would be possible to make "point plans" as such (would stay within Templot as a saved file or a saved track section on the plan) that only match the rail geometry of set-points at the outer edge of the turnout as made- say at where the check rail end and the other end at point blade toes?...yes, all the sleeper/timber locations that Templot produces would be ignored as they have been set by the manufacturer on the set-point. Bill posted: 10 Jan 2019 13:52 from: Martin Wynne Hi Bill, Welcome to Templot ...
... topic: 3114 Getting a list of materials needed posted: 22 Oct 2017 12:40 from: Hayfield Sorry for being so thick, but I thought you could get a list of the amount of rail and timbers required for the template just designed. Looked in search, gone through a few pages og Baffled Beginners, looked at the tool bar several times, printed out the turnout details page. Just cannot either find it or how to calculate it, or am I wrong posted: 22 Oct 2017 21:33 from: Rob Manchester Hayfield wrote: Sorry for being so thick, but I thought you could get a list of the amount of rail and timbers required for the template just designed. Looked in search, gone through a few pages og Baffled Beginners, looked at the tool bar several times, printed out the turnout details page. Just cannot either find it or how to calculate it, or am I wrong Hello John, You didn't look in the storage box. Use the box-> show cumulative box data menu option ...
457. MERG DCC system
... in addition to the train engine so it would be better to call it DH for double header or similar. Just a thought although it may cause confusion with DCC chips having CV's called consist address and such like. Elves back to work. Watch this space. Rob posted: 23 Oct 2017 08:43 from: Charles Orr I use servo's to drive my turnouts and the CANMIOServo is perfect for that. In addition, my control panels are being built using other suitable CBUS modules. I'm also doing a lot with 3D printing using a Prusa I3 Mk2. I have a Mk3 on backorder. Using Fusion 360 I have designed a turnout operating unit that does not use a wire pivot, based on the design of another MERG member. This looks more prototypical. Plenty to learn. Best regards Charles posted: 23 Oct 2017 10:06 from: Judi R Rob Manchester wrote: Is the DCC control system a British designed product? If so, why does the hand unit have 'consist' on it- that is an american term to suit ...
458. wish list
... buttons that represent the most commonly used features that I use. when I mean 3x, at 2560 x 1440 res, I have a lot of available real estate, unlike Windoze systems it seem New Windows systems can be obtained with similar monitors. But not everyone buys a new computer very often. Many users are still using older computers with smaller screens. It doesn't do them any favours if I make Templot require the latest hardware in order to use it. If you have trouble remembering the keyboard shortcuts, don't forget to print out the chart at help> print F key chart menu item. If you don't have a keyboard, or prefer clicking a mouse to pressing keys, try the Windows On-Screen Keyboard. Just type "on screen keyboard" in the Windows search box: 2_020806_150000000.png Click the Fn button to get a row of F keys. Let's not start a Windows v. Mac battle on here. You can find such battles all over the web, so another one here is hardly needed and isn't going to change anything. ...
... , but I haven't tried it so can't comment. Some builders use Loctite 435 to fix the switch slide chairs to the rail, which otherwise have a habit of falling loose after removal from the template. regards, Martin. posted: 29 Nov 2015 00:20 from: Tony W Hi Richard. Yes, there is a risk that some timbers using functional chairs can move along the rail once the track is removed from the tape, but it should be a simple matter to gently place the track back over the Templot print and reposition the timbers before laying in place on the layout. It is probably best to leave the track on the plan until one is ready to lay them in position on the baseboard. If you pre-curve your rails (as you should) your constructed track alignment should not really alter. Martin has already made most of the comments I was going to make, but I would like to emphasise the importance of making sure the two bends at the knuckle are absolutely opposite one another or you will encounter problems as ...
... topic: 582 Measuring the distance between two points posted: 8 Oct 2008 15:39 from: Gordon S Hi guys, searched everywhere on the forum but can't find how to measure the distance between two turnouts approximately 9' apart on my layout plan. Tried the ruler bar but can't see what it does. I can guess using the pad grid or even print off the various templates full size, but feel sure there is a way of measuring between two points set up on a mouse click. Grateful for your guidance. The two points referred to in the title are points on a drawing, not the incorrect reference to a turnout....I'm learning. ;-) Last edited on 8 Oct 2008 15:41 by Gordon S posted: 8 Oct 2008 16:16 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: Hi guys, searched everywhere on the forum but can't find how to measure the distance between two turnouts approximately 9' apart on my layout plan. Tried the ruler bar but can't see what it does. I can ...
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