... slip switch- but if you say it's fine, I'm not altering it! I've slid the switch along using 5, and am not quite sure where the tips are. Hopefully I attach a screenshot. The tie bar is indicated, and there is a white line where I think the tips are- is that right, the white line indicates the tips? I think I did use the make diamond crossing at intersection- I remember it being a lot easier than following the tutorial making a ladder crossover. It was a few days ago. I have a question on making this formation but will do it as a separate topic. Cheers Julian Attachment: attach_3101_3706_Slip_switch_detai l_please_delete.PNG 74 posted: 23 Jun 2020 17:47 from: Martin Wynne Julian Roberts wrote: The tie bar is indicated, and there is a white line where I think the tips are- is that right, the white line indicates the tips? Hi Julian, Yes, the marks indicate the tips of the blades and also the end of the planing (filing). On the ...

... flangeways that is 2 x 0.68mm+ 0.25mm= 1.61mm. Wagon wheels are usually 5" wide, which scales to 1.67mm, so only just wide enough to span the gap. In fact not quite wide enough if you allow for the corner radius on the rail and a chamfer between the face of the wheel and the tread. If you use exact scale wheels you need to make sure not to exceed the specified flangeway gap just in front of the nose of the vee. Here's some stuff I have posted on RMweb a few times:____ The knuckles should be radiused, the knuckle gap being wider than the crossing flangeway gap. Here's a diagram which may help when setting the wing rail knuckles: 2_220535_490000000.png The blue infill shows the theoretical ideal with a sharp bend at K exactly matching the angle of the vee and in line with it. In practice on the prototype it is not possible to make such a sharp bend because of the 1:20 inclination of the rails. Instead, a short curve is used, as shown ...

... get Templot to export the files needed for direct 3D printing of track. 2_061704_070000000.png Unfortunately I don't get much time to work on it, my computer time being mostly taken up in supporting the current Templot functions for users. For example I recently spent several days on a re-write of the make diamond-crossing at intersection function. So don't hold your breath for chairing in the DXF any time soon. You might like to look at Andy B's work on adding chairing to Templot's DXF files: topic 2734 (The first few pages are from 2016 and a bit out-of-date) cheers, Martin. posted: 26 Jun 2020 00:04 from: PHP Thanks Martin. I can add chair blocks and orient them with a macro in my CAD program. Had the chair positions been already placed, it would have made my processes slightly easier. The sleeper centre line over length stays the same when I made the changers in the generator as you suggested. The sleepers are now square, but thats not my objective. I was ...

... #p78428 posted: 14 Sep 2020 00:45 from: DerekStuart Well I wasn't quite prepared for the dramatic music! But what good looking stuff they've shown there. There is something about the double-headed steam locos (sorry- no idea what they are, steam is new to me) that really looked the part. Thanks for sharing. Derek posted: 14 Sep 2020 01:14 from: Rob Manchester Derek, Another show this year that we will all miss out on- but hey it is only a few trains and an expensive day out and keeping CV19 under control is more important. The double header's are BR(ex-LNER) B1 locos. You need to get reading up on this steam thing- some say it is addictive Rob posted: 14 Sep 2020 23:30 from: DerekStuart Hello Rob C19 is indeed important, but so is life and not just existing. Thanks. My steam knowledge is limited- to me a K1 and B1 look the same, for example. However, you're right they are ...

... main thing about the triangular tool is you don't need to know the track radius (except as agreed above)- but of course Templot users always do know the radius! Cheers Julian posted: 11 Nov 2020 08:14 from: Hayfield Julian The gauges referred to as C&L are actually Exactoscale. 4XX TG01 are the gauge widened set 4XX TG02 are the standard set What I do to start off with is to have a standard roller gauge at one or both ends, simply to hold the rail whilst the first few chairs set If building chaired track (this includes 3 point gauges), these gauges must be plastic chair compliant, which allows the head of the rail to rotate in the slot. In the past (it was discussed on this site) I had a gauge narrowing incident when using a new Alan Gibson (the same would go for most makes) 3 point gauge when making a P4 turnout. The gauge is fine for soldered method, but grips the rail too tight, thus counteracting the cant of the plastic chairs ...

... for not doing something like this much sooner. It does rely on the irregular half-diamonds, so wouldn't have been possible before Templot2. I have added a new peg position at peg on split deflection: 2_281934_280000000.png This puts the peg on the TP switch toe position (CTRL-2) but at half the switch deflection angle. Which makes it easy to peg an irregular half-diamond onto a bit of plain track to create a switch front. The result is that I was able to create this with just a few clicks, and no timber shoving needed. In most cases you will want to set the V-crossing to curviform for a symmetrical result. In practice in many track planning situations there would be no need to create a separate switch front, it could be pegged directly onto an existing approach track. Then rolling the rails to put the switch-front rail joints in the right place. It's not a perfect solution, because being a half-diamond template some turnout functions are not available. For example you can't have ...

... of the world is 1:160). regards, Martin. posted: 31 Mar 2015 17:23 from: madscientist The library confuses me( its bad when a 20 year programmer is confused), is there a help or video posted: 31 Mar 2015 18:02 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: The library confuses me( its bad when a 20 year programmer is confused), is there a help or video Hi Dave, Sometimes I think I should simply switch the whole Templot project off for a few years while I write a full updated set of docs, and only then switch it back on. Otherwise I shall spend the rest of my life explaining things ad hoc over and over again as new users arrive and never get time to produce the definitive user documentation. Library templates are explained on this page, see library templates in the menu on the left: http://templot.com/martweb/pug_info_1.htm but of course it is an ancient page from 2003 so needs a lot of updating. The idea is that ...

... following Jubilee42's comments, can I ask- if it's not a secret of course- if I wanted to re-programme Templot from scratch (forgetting that even VBA taxes me) how big is the programme in terms of lines or characters or whatever. The exe is incredibly frugal on hdd space and memory usage; considering the level of functionality it's surprising how small it is. Hi Derek, The compiler is currently showing 349,449 lines of code. That's a fairly meaningless number, because it depends whether you write a few long lines or lots of short ones. I will do a bit of delving and see if I can find the number of statements. I don't recall ever seeing such a figure in the compiler stats, but it should be in there somewhere. The small size of the exe file is for two reasons mainly: 1. I don't use any Microsoft tools to create it. 2. It uses only the Windows Common Controls and traditional plain menus -- that's why it runs well on Linux/ Wine/ CrossOver. ...

... topic: 2755 Experimental Companion formats posted: 9 Oct 2015 10:29 from: Martin Wynne Hi all, If you have a few minutes to spare you may like to have a look (in 212a) at the help> experimental Companion formats> menu items. I have embedded 3 versions of the Templot Companion web site from http://templot.com/companion/ directly within the Templot program. As you know there is very little actual content on there yet -- I am still experimenting with formats. I would welcome some feedback on how you find two of the formats, EXE and the simple viewer. Unlike the web site, these are able to launch files directly -- specifically in this case the FBR video tutorials, and also other useful utilities that I may write such as the dpi-awareness swapper. Which means the FBR videos can be directly included in the A-Z Index without needing to be downloaded and run from your browser. At present they are temporarily linked in the program from the watch a video> ...

... by Nigel Brown posted: 5 Nov 2020 10:20 from: Julian Roberts Thank you for those links Nigel. Luckily for me there are several sources of photographs of the area and trains of the past. I spent the next morning staring at my Ambis etches, feeling as baffled as before, and considering all the other options, before thinking I haven't given the Masokits stretcher bars enough of a go. So I made up two of them and fixed them onto a turnout. Unlike the previous time I'd tried them a few weeks ago for a turnout that will be offstage and has "model" (i.e. overscale) joggles, this turnout has undercut blades with no joggles, so the way they lie against the stock rail is critical, and they must lie all the way along the length of the planing, if there are to be no derailments. (This is P4 gauge) I'm very pleased with the result. The points set in each direction perfectly, quite freely but with a solid feel, all the way along the planing ...