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... Version 218a. Your copy of Templot should update automatically if you restart it and follow the instructions. If you have any problems with that, see the download and notes at: http://templot.com/companion/installation.php The main change in this update is the new tools> make 3-way tandem turnout> function. For more information please see this page: http://templot.com/companion/3_way_tandem_turnouts.php which I shall be expanding in the next few days. regards, Martin. posted: 4 Jan 2018 10:31 from: madscientist You are a national treasure Martin, how HM missed you in the recent list is beyond me Last edited on 4 Jan 2018 10:32 by madscientist posted: 4 Jan 2018 11:17 from: Paul Boyd Gosh, Martin, that's brilliant! All those hours spent fiddling with partial templates, and now Templot does most of it for you! One teeny little point- when I updated the program, it wanted to install in a folder called Templot 2, instead of Templot2. Knowing ...
... Dec 2016 14:00 from: JFS This video shows one at about 0.50 (possibly two of them- not sure about the one on the left). Lots of interesting signalling shots later on. posted: 9 Dec 2016 14:12 from: Roger Henry Video link please? Or have I got myself lost again?: _) posted: 9 Dec 2016 16:37 from: JFS Oops, it's my age you know... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =YH2ZC9rbxSw posted: 10 Dec 2016 11:49 from: Roger Henry Thank you for that Sir. Interesting and evocative. Desperate days. Contrails and all. The Black and White gives the film some nice atmosphere (The Germans had all the colour print). A London bus does look a tad odd when seen in B and W. posted: 10 Dec 2016 16:51 from: Jim Guthrie I remember the Underground system not being much changed when I started work in London about twenty years later. Jim. Parts of Templot Club ...
503. Switched diamonds
... topic: 2166 Switched diamonds posted: 25 Feb 2013 13:14 from: Raymond I am working on a ladder crossing over two tracks. If I use a curviform crossing, the resulting diamond from the turnout (14'@ 1;10) is just over 1:5, far too tight for running lines. A regular crossing results in a 1:10 diamond but I want a single slip there too. Would it be prototypical in 1900 GWR practice to have an outside slip on a moving elbow diamond? I can find nothing in David Smith's book to suggest either way. Regards and thanks to anyone who can help. Raymond posted: 25 Feb 2013 14:15 from: JFS Yes it would! regards, Howard. posted: 25 Feb 2013 14:38 from: Martin Wynne Raymond wrote: Would it be prototypical in 1900 GWR practice to have an outside slip on a moving elbow diamond? Hi Raymond, It's not possible usual to have a UK-pattern outside slip on a switch-diamond, because it ...
504. 1st P4 Layout
... topic: 2168 1st P4 Layout posted: 27 Feb 2013 11:10 from: bowie87 Hi, as stated in the Description it's my 1st time trying a P4 (Hand-built) gauge layout. It is set in early 1934 as I want the full 'Great Western' on the side of my loco's rather that the small Shirtbutton. I am limited for room, so the layout will be 2.85m x0.8m with a split at the 1.65m mark from the Left Hand side of the plan. Now before I continue I'll point out that I do own a copy of the David Smith (GWSC) book of 'GWR Switch and crossing practice' and I have tried to get as close as possible to achieve prototype track as I can with my limited knowledge of point work, timbering and templot. I am hoping at building GWR Old Style 10' Loose Heel turnouts with joggles. Now the part that has got me worried. On the attached Box file I am concerned that my turnouts won't have the clearance that should be 4.5'' (1.5mm ...
... had a green hue which is not present on my master or the item that appears in sketchboard. Again this was really just a passing thought on my part and no reflection on workpad. Regarding using shape items from sketchboard, this is pure ignorance on my part as I did not realise you could do that, and I will try it in the future. Clearly, I need to look further into the features of sketchboard and see what can be achieved. All the best, Brian Nicholls. posted: 4 Apr 2012 10:10 from: Martin Wynne Brian Nicholls wrote: It was just a passing thought that you may be able to do something similar to that with the storage box, with the side arrows to move items up or down the list. Hi Brian, I haven't provided this because it never seemed to be needed. The background shapes are normally used as lines and empty rectangles or hatched infill, so the order of drawing doesn't make much difference. Only the picture shapes are usually solid, and for those there is the ...
... any memory of a group it came from, so there is no way those things can be retained when it is stored. Sorry. Hi Gordon, Returned to this topic to say it can now remember the marker colour: 2_041020_020000000.png It will be off by default, but can be turned on using the above new menu option. The option setting will be included in your program preferences, if you are saving them. In the next program update. Thanks for the suggestion. cheers, Martin. posted: 14 Sep 2020 10:06 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: No need for a video, unless you enjoy making them.... I'll leave you in peace now... Hi Gordon, I've returned to this topic to say that I've just now discovered a video which I made less than 12 months ago, but which I had completely forgotten about: http://flashbackconnect.com/Movie.aspx?id=MTd0T1Pp4DIGd5QfbfBqQw2 cheers, Martin. posted: 25 Oct 2020 10:32 from: richard_t Do you have a plan ...
... topic: 519 Can anyone help with a 3 way template please posted: 10 Aug 2008 20:04 from: class76 Im really struggling to get to grips with templot i,ve managed to print off my templates for all the other points etc i need on my layout but i need a 3 way point with 2 RH exit roads if i make sense so far. Its like the template you get with a SMP point kit. I,ve given up on trying for now im getting a headache with the program it is tough to get my head around so i am asking for help. Does anyone have a file i could use with the template i a need then the templates are done i can start the construction of the layout. Cheers Simon. posted: 10 Aug 2008 23:51 from: Paul Boyd Hi Simon A three way turnout of the type you describe is just (for example) a RH 1 in 8 turnout superimposed onto a RH 1 in 6 turnout. If you want to include the centre crossing, you ...
... guard against but given a largish plan and my lack of templotting skills it's something that happens more often than I would like. Incidentally, when one notices a misaligned template (eg. a turnout in the middle of a plan with one road misaligned what is the best way to correct it? Where to start? How does one systematically hook up the corrected alignment without disturbing the rest of the plan? One query with respect to your re-doing of the plan. I understand, and will use, a C-10 or C-12 at the start of the Barry double track immediately prior to the facing double junction. It looks something of that order on the map. However the turnout to the RS Hayes siding (# 22 on the .bgs file) is close to a B 5.25 on the map (yes, on a major running line!) and I would like to make it as sharp as possible (in keeping with the original) but consistent with trouble free running. Would a B-6 do that or should ...
509. Making crossing vees
... the bulk of the metal can be quickly removed with a coarse file or metal shears before finishing on the sander. Use a fine-grade sanding disc on the sander plate. If the vee gets too hot while sanding stop and dip the block in a bowl of cold water. The end result is an accurately aligned vee comprised of solid rail at the nose. All that then remains is to fettle the running edges at the tip and blunt back the nose to the specified width as shown on the template (0.25mm/10 thou for bullhead in 4mm scale). It's a good idea to take a few thou off the top of the nose so that it dips down slightly below the wing rails. This allows for the coning angle on the wheels as they run off the wing rail onto the nose, producing smoother running. But don't overdo it. N.B. Wear a mask while sanding and wash hands afterwards. The sandings will contain lead from the solder. Stick Elastoplast or tape on the ends of your fingers beforehand to protect them if ...
... the same problem occurring on 4mm scale 00 gauge slips. Practically, you are probably going to have to lay the slip rail, then cut and file a piece of rail to solder or glue to the back of the slip rail that reproduces as much of the check rail as you can squeeze in. I think you will find the same situation in RTR slips made to coarser track standards. Or you can start modelling in exact scale Proto:Z to avoid the problem. Jim. posted: 12 Jul 2008 23:10 from: its_all_downhill Jim Guthrie wrote: Tom, [snip] Or you can start modelling in exact scale Proto:Z to avoid the problem. Jim. Hi Jim Thanks for the reply, now I know that it wasn't my blunderings makes me a lot more confident to give this a go. Proto:Z hmm gulp.. think that is beyond me at mo.. Regards Tom posted: 12 Jul 2008 23:47 from: Martin Wynne its_all_downhill wrote: no matter how hard I try I cannot get ...
... topic: 1128 First attempt as modelling Leicester -Belgrave GNR Spur posted: 22 May 2010 10:02 from: nickom Hello all, I have been using Templot for a few months now and find it an excellent CAD tool, (once you master the menus and commands and its filing system), anyway I have attempted to model the Leicester Belgrave GNR spur terminus station and have used a scanned 1:500 image from my local records office as an overlay, one question I have is that I modelled it all in P4, but after attending the EM show in Bracknell and after many discussions on the pros and cons decided to change to EM, Is there an easy way to change the scale in Templot so i dont have redo it all, i.e does changing the scale in the menu Template Gauge and Scale change to EM reposition every accurately without having to the re-align the templates. I have attached the Box file, I haven't attached the BGS file and .BMP as I wasn't sure this was acceptable to the group, ( ...
... web it will require an internet connection. The probability is that users will have tried Templot in the interim and thus will know they need to upgrade- and hopefully re check the issue. There is another potential scenario. If something unforeseen was to happen such that the service that support such checks was terminated and perhaps permanently, then at one fell swoop the whole Templot community loses it's favourite tool. Rather than enduring as a legacy to your undoubted skills and all the years of hard work. John posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:41 from: Martin Wynne John Clutterbuck wrote: Expecting the users to remember to: start Templot beforehand and hibernate daily hoping it and Templot wont crash in the interim; pay for internet, dongles etc., they don't need; or wait a few years until the internet is universal, etc. is in my opinion unhelpful. Hi John, I'm not expecting users to do that, I have merely explained that such things are possible. Nowadays the vast majority of computer users need an internet connection anyway, and ...
... 3PI. I see what you show AND a bunch of extraneous track segments. I'll post a jpg of it if it doesn't go away in the next round of playing with it. Pimin posted: 31 Jul 2008 09:47 from: Martin Wynne Hi Pimin, I made a quick bit of Jing video in 3D from your .box file. Sorry no time to fix the lighting. No sign of extraneous track segments here: http://screencast.com/t /WsMeAxcJ2V regards, Martin. posted: 31 Jul 2008 10:06 from: Martin Wynne Hi Pimin, Here's your track plan exported to DXF as track centre-lines only, and then imported into 3PI as track objects. You can see that I was able to join on a Peco turnout in the usual way, and you can run trains over the connection. pimin_dxf_3pi1.png In this way you can combine Templot-designed track with 3PI's native track. The ties don't appear because the Templot track segments are too short. regards, Martin. posted: 31 Jul 2008 10: ...
... is restored. So to carry on where you left off, just copy the relevant template to the control template before continuing with the next part of the design. Alternatively, you can store library templates with your various settings for this and other options, and copy the required one of those as needed. This is the standard way to use Templot -- copy from a template which contains the desired set of settings, and then adjust it as required for the new work. regards, Martin. posted: 27 Jun 2010 10:41 from: stuart1600 Thanks for the quick response, Martin. I had obviously misunderstood the minimum radius setting, thinking it related to a box-file rather than a template. I may well be in a minority of one (not for the first time!)but setting a minimum radius for the whole layout is actually what I would prefer to do. If the entire layout was the gasworks sidings then obviously a sharper radius would be appropriate, but for any typical mainline/branchline layout then the long- ...
515. Three throw point
... topic: 2028 Three throw point posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:20 from: mike47j I'm building a three throw point in 0 guage. Anyone have any tips on how to do this. Especially how to move the inner blades? Normally, I would use a thin strip if fiberglass pcb and lace pins as hinges soldered to the inner face of the rail, but there is no space to do that on the inner blades of a three throw. Mike Johnson posted: 24 Jul 2012 13:16 from: Martin Wynne Hi Mike, Richard Lambert of this parish (" dikitriki" on RMweb) wrote a detailed topic on the construction of a 3-throw in 0 gauge. Unfortunately, it was on Old RMweb which is off-line at present. It's possible he also posted it elsewhere, such as the Guild forum, so it might be worth a PM to him. If you can wait a week or two, RMweb is getting new servers in the next couple of weeks, and if all goes to plan Andy ...
516. Not quite Ogbourne
... could match the spacing from the last timber and/or adjusting the length until I lost the rail joint in the right place. It's good enough to be able to build from knowing what I have done but it would be good to understand best practice for doing this. Thanks for reading, Richard. Attachment: attach_3023_3657_MSWJR-6.mecbox 94 posted: 5 May 2020 00:40 from: Richard Brummitt Here also the background files should you wish to load them also. Attachment: attach_3024_3657_MSWJR-4.bgs3 94 posted: 5 May 2020 10:56 from: KeithArmes Can we open a .mecbox file in Templot 2, please? Keith posted: 5 May 2020 11:01 from: DaveJ61 Hi Keith, Have you tried it? I didn't know either but I clicked the file from the post and it fired up Templot and displayed it. Dave Johns posted: 5 May 2020 11:26 from: Richard Brummitt KeithArmes wrote: Can we open a .mecbox file in Templot 2, please? Keith Keith, .mecbox was created with Templot 2. It was ...
517. Saunderton
... model track plan at the same time. For example you have probably already discovered on the plan you posted that the snap join functions are not the way to get smoothly flowing pointwork, and definitely not if aligning over a map. It's much better to use the split and insert functions to create a track plan, as in this video: http://flashbackconnect.com/Movie.aspx?id=QBDJMDgdiC7PwRqLS2U3jg2 Notice that at no time in the video are two separate templates joined together. cheers, Martin. posted: 3 May 2020 10:08 from: David Gwynne Thanks Martin for your swift response. First of all, an apology as I mislead you in terms of the map I used. I had uploaded and stitched together the "find by place" 1919 maps which I hadn't appreciated weren't 6"one! Thanks for confirming that OO won't fit exactly. I had expected that it wouldn't quite work. Fully appreciate your comments about learning the software before trying to design and I've been doing that to an extent by trying stuff off line and I'd ...
... size limit and you don't have a zip compression program, please send them to me by email to martin@templot.com I will then upload them for you. On the other hand, if you can convert them to PNG format in an image editor program, you can then attach them easily or upload them to the Image Gallery instead. I notice that you are using the unusual scale of 1:50 (6.1mm/ft). Are you actually modelling in that scale? regards, Martin. posted: 29 May 2010 10:40 from: Bill Fay Martin, Many thanks. I will obviously have to learn about zipped files! However, being purely track plans they are not too big; the largest being about 650KB. My moddeling attempts are actually 2mmFS. For this exercise I wanted to stick to a true scale, in order to be as accurate as possible and not become diverted by wing rail gaps etc. being sightly off- 1:50 chosen largely at random, it sounded like a proper engineers scale! First track scan ...
519. Shove timbers
... want to lengthen a timber towards the label without moving the other end. The only way I can see to do this is to lengthen the timber and then use throw with the mouse which loses me the end position. What's the difference between forward/backward and crab-left/crab-right they seem to do exactly the same things? Why is there no button equivalent of the mouse action throw? Or is there some way of getting a guide line for the ends of the timbers? posted: 6 Mar 2013 10:12 from: Martin Wynne mike47j wrote: I want to lengthen a timber towards the label without moving the other end. Hi Mike, Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking lengthen or pressing L. Same for shorten and S. What's the difference between forward/backward and crab-left/crab-right they seem to do exactly the same things? Try twisting the timber first to see the difference. On a straight template, if the timber has not been twisted there is no difference. On a curved ...
520. Templot program code
... the generator). This is called many, many times while Templot is running. For example if you are adjusting the crossing angle with F9, it will be called every time Windows reports the mouse having moved one or more pixels on the screen. The variables are global so that they can be used anywhere in Templot if needed. For example the variable bnx is the x dimension to the blunt nose, g is the track gauge, etc. All the dimensions are in mm to extended precision (80-bit, 10-byte). After being curved to the required main road radius and transformed (shifted/rotated) to its proper position on the trackpad grid, this template gets drawn as the control template. The dimensions are referenced from the template datum, which is the gauge-face of the straight stock rail, at CTRL-0. This template datum is marked on the trackpad as a green dot. All the rail edges and centre-lines which make up the template have an aq number. The code attached below ...
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