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... by increasing the track centres the V crossings have now moved to a position where they 'line up' with the diamond V crossings so cannot be checked correctly. Let me have another go before you spend your time taking a look. People say Templot is a hard program to use, I don't agree. I have no problem using Templot. The hard bit is being your own track engineer and designing workable formations, its like solving a 3-D puzzle! Strangely addictive though. Julian posted: 28 Oct 2014 01:10 from: Tony W Hi Julian. I had a quick look last night and the general layout appears much better. I will let you have another go but offer a little tip. By making small adjustments to the track spacing, (and I mean fractions of a mm) you can alter the way the timbers line up with those on the next track when generating a crossover. Say for instance the crossing timbers are 1mm out of line with each other for a 1 in 8 crossover altering the track centres by 1 ...
622. Saving Files
... topic: 2254 Saving Files posted: 10 Jul 2013 13:14 from: LPL All; Is it possible to save work, all ready done, onto a disc? I'd like to restore my computer but would rather save the files first. I have made some attempts on my own but without success. If, after all, saving files to a disc can be done, please, reply to let me know how. Thanks, ahead of time; Lu Luis Leistikow USA posted: 10 Jul 2013 15:03 from: Martin Wynne Hi Luis, Welcome to Templot Club. To save your work to a data file, click the main> save all templates... menu item. If you have already done that, and you want to copy all your files to a CD or external disk drive -- In My Computer go to the C: drive and copy the entire \TEMPLOT_DEV\ folder to the CD. In most CD burning software you can just drag that folder into the burner dialog. If you need more ...
... topic: 782 Toggling Background Shapes posted: 7 Apr 2009 10:35 from: Andy G Martin, I am currently working on drawing the trackwork for the relaying of Slattocks Junction. I have drawn the baseboards and also have a couple of very large scans of the existing trackwork. I've managed to get by with setting the scans to transparent on occasion so that I can see the baseboards through them but it would be very useful if there was an option to turn individual shapes off. For example I may want to display the baseboards but not the scans of the existing track. I'm not particularly bothered by the ability to group shapes but being able to toggle display of a shape on and off would be great. Andy Last edited on 7 Apr 2009 10:35 by Andy G posted: 7 Apr 2009 11:23 from: Martin Wynne Andy G wrote: it would be very useful if there was an option to turn individual shapes off. For example I may want to display the baseboards but not the scans of the existing track ...
624. SK5 files on a Mac
... installer? Windows in a virtual machine? Dual-boot into Windows? Dual-boot into Linux+ Wine? Have you tried a different browser? Firefox seems to be by far the most user-friendly with regard to downloaded files. Anyway, for anyone who has SK5 files which won't open from the browser, I have added yet more menu items: 2_261524_470000000.png You will need to know where to find the downloaded file, of course. In the next program update. regards, Martin. posted: 27 Nov 2017 10:05 from: Graham Idle Hello Martin, I have just checked the templot folder and I only have a file called TEMPLOT_VIDEO_LOADER.VIR, but no exe file. I am sure that I installed the last update the same way as all previous updates so I have no idea what has gone wrong. Regards, Graham Martin Wynne wrote: Graham Idle wrote: Videos are not working on my setup. I have just checked my C:TEMPLOT_DEV folder and it does not have sk5_loader.exe in it. How can I load this file ...
... topic: 2249 Diamond crossing construction posted: 3 Jul 2013 10:47 from: LSWRArt On a diamond crossing, I am not sure what you call the piece of running rail with one end filed to an point between the K-rail and the check rail? More importantly, how do I make one? On the few pictures I can find it looks as if many modellers have left the rail straight and just filed the tip off at an angle. I cannot find any pictures of the real K-crossing crossing pre-grouping or even in the early days of grouping. But I would have thought that if you make the rail head like this, it will mean that the rail head is not supported at the tip by the rail web? So should these rails be made in the same way as a V-crossing point rail? i.e. bend 10mm (in 0 gauge) towards the running face, file railhead only on the running side to make the running surface straight again; and then file the crossing angle on ...
626. Track construction
... we've invented Pritt in Tasmania yet? Have to hunt around. So: can you gentlemen advise on glues you prefer to use? N-S rail to plastic base plate to ply. I haven't discounted having some etches done but then I'll be glueing N-S to brass to ply hopefully in one go. Is there a good glue for this application. If I go this way there will be no holding of rail to base plate mechanically so it will only be glue. Cheers Simon Handby posted: 4 Jul 2013 10:08 from: Paul Boyd Hi Simon So: can you gentlemen advise on glues you prefer to use? N-S rail to plastic base plate to ply. I haven't discounted having some etches done but then I'll be glueing N-S to brass to ply hopefully in one go. Is there a good glue for this application. I've had very good results with Loctite 435. I've used this to glue plastic slide chairs to N/S rail and ply timbers. Where I've subsequently needed to remove the slide ...
... , not by setting the gap between them. For Z gauge the scale is 1:220. If the gap between them is 1.4mm, that means on the prototype it is 1.4 x 220= 308mm. If your prototype timbers are say 250mm(?) wide, that means the centre-to-centre spacing would be 250+ 308= 558mm, which is 22 inches. So you would enter 22 inches centre-to-centre spacing. Are you modelling American railways? Generally timbers are narrower than 250mm/10 inches, and typically at 21 inches spacing. If you can post a drawing of your prototype track details, it will be easier to answer specifically about how to set it up in Templot. regards, Martin. posted: 3 Dec 2017 17:26 from: Z Gauge Tim Hi Martin and Phil, Thank you very much for your advice. I like Templot very much, I have already created templates for plain track and curves and I am very satisfied with the result. Martin, thank you very much for ...
... I might presume that bullhead arrangements might have been similar. I won't actually be building this track (it's for someone else) but I think I might have to think of some way of hingeing the short "K" switch blades. I'm more used to laying longer flexible switch blades. Jim. posted: 6 Apr 2012 09:08 from: Jim Guthrie Correction. I've just looked at the Mick Nicholson picture again and seen the opposite slip rail is bolted to the slide chair. Jim. posted: 6 Apr 2012 10:50 from: Phil O Jim Guthrie wrote I won't actually be building this track (it's for someone else) but I think I might have to think of some way of hingeing the short "K" switch blades. I'm more used to laying longer flexible switch blades. Jim. Hi Jim I use 1mm Phosphor Bronze strip to make the hinge on GW old style switches, I put it on the viewing side so that it looks like the two bolt fishplate the GW used. It sometime needs to be narrowed ...
... topic: 1884 ADMIN: short outage possible Sat 24th March posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:59 from: Martin Wynne Apologies for any inconvenience. Message from Jim at Data 1 Systems: Intermittent server outages this Saturday Mar. 24, as we are putting in a larger and upgraded power supply backup. Outages should be no longer than 10 minutes max per server, less than half the servers will be affected. We are also installing server 21, a new class of server with dual quad core processors and 24G of ram. This will possibly replace server 9 depending on demand. posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:58 from: richard_t 24Gb of RAM!- I remember when hard disks where that big. (OK I remember when hard disks where in Mb rather than Gb, but I don't want to seem that old!) posted: 23 Mar 2012 12:46 from: Jim Guthrie richard_t wrote: 24Gb of RAM!- I remember when hard disks where that big. (OK I remember when hard disks where in Mb ...
630. Double Slip anyone?
... topic: 1553 Double Slip anyone? posted: 29 Jun 2011 18:58 from: JFS Hi All, Anyone fancy their chances with this one? http://homepage2.nifty.com/kotaroooo/5pointcx.htm Look forward to seeing anyone's efforts! Has anyone ever seen anything of the sort in the UK? Best Wishes, Howard. posted: posted: 3 Jul 2011 10:29 from: roythebus Seems like a fairly normal double slip to me! 3 Jul 2011 10:29 from: roythebus Seems like a fairly normal double slip to me! posted: 3 Jul 2011 13:04 from: Alan McMillan The photograph's a normal slip but the drawing underneath is a Baesler slip. They're used a lot on the Continent, mainly in Germany, but I've never seen one in the UK Alan posted: 3 Jul 2011 16:57 from: Alan Turner Alan McMillan wrote: The photograph's a normal slip but the drawing underneath is a Baesler slip. They're used a lot on the Continent, mainly in Germany, but I've never seen one in ...
631. Video + audio
... written tutorials. Keep 'em coming! Andy posted: 27 Nov 2007 18:00 from: Andy B Alan Turner wrote: You can't use a midi file because that type of file only contains instructions to play an instrument. If you don't have the instrument it doesn't work. But don't most PC's these days have a sound card with a built-in midi player?- so effectively you do have an instrument. Whether you like the 'music' that comes out is a separate discussion posted: 27 Nov 2007 19:10 from: Martin Wynne Alan Turner wrote: You can't use a midi file because that type of file only contains instructions to play an instrument. If you don't have the instrument it doesn't work. Hi Alan, The instrument in this case is the synthesiser chip on the audio card, or often nowadays integrated on the motherboard. Virtually all PCs with any sound at all can play midi files. So I'm puzzled why a midi file can't be embedded in an avi media file. Perhaps it can? The resultant "music ...
... within a scale-width model. But 1/4" scale on 1.25" track gauge is significantly overscale in gauge. This must make it very difficult to build accurate scale models. And it's strange because the dominant US scale is H0 (Half-0) at 3.5mm/ft but they don't have a corresponding 0 scale for it to be half of. Here in the UK we have exactly that in 7mm scale -- but no mainstream Half-0 modelling. regards, Martin. posted: 29 Jul 2011 10:25 from: Alan Turner Very interesting. it appears that American "0" gauge seems to be 1:48 running on UK "0" gauge track? Well within 0.25mm. Alan Last edited on 29 Jul 2011 10:27 by Alan Turner posted: 29 Jul 2011 14:12 from: Glen Suckling Alan Turner wrote: Very interesting. it appears that American "0" gauge seems to be 1:48 running on UK "0" gauge track? Well within 0.25mm. I actually do run1 ...
... -style staggered rail joints: Good luck with the project. Les G posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:01 from: Adrian Marks No info directly relevant to your question I'm afraid, but these snippets may flesh out NER PW practice c1888 a little. From EE Tratman's monologue 'English Railroad Track' read to the American Society of Civil Emgineers, June 28th 1888, recorded in Transactions 388 Vol. XVIII. 53_272056_130000000.jpg 53_272056_540000000.jpg 53_272057_440000000.jpg Rgds Adrian Last edited on 28 Jul 2011 02:02 by Adrian Marks posted: 27 Aug 2011 10:46 from: Simon Dunkley Thanks for the template, Richard- just what I needed for myself, albeit not NER. However, on changing the gauge/scale, the interlaced sleepers reverted to timbers. Can anyone shed light on this? posted: 27 Aug 2011 11:56 from: Martin Wynne Simon Dunkley wrote: However, on changing the gauge/scale, the interlaced sleepers reverted to timbers. Hi Simon, Before changing the gauge/scale, click the match original option: 2_270649_170000000.png For match original ...
... to get the actual turnouts to start making them if I can think of any practical way of going ahead. The attraction of the location is that it is in a quite confined area that in total might not take an impractical amount of space for a group of determined modellers. I could load an image of what I've got so far but maybe the above is enough to be clear what I'm asking. Maybe anyone can refer me to instructions elsewhere on the Forum that tell me what to do? posted: 20 Jun 2019 10:30 from: Ariels Girdle The map you have ought to have a scale on it. If so, you can easily work out how big a model would be without using Templot. I tend to draw 300mm grid on a copy of the map. That way it is very easy to visualise how big it would be. posted: 20 Jun 2019 11:49 from: Julian Roberts Yes of course, Ariels. I think it's the NLS 50" map. Assuming it is,there are convenient grid lines ...
... valid". I am not aware of using DXF files. Bit nervous of joining development group, thank you. Any ideas, please. posted: 5 Sep 2011 23:07 from: Tony W Hi Bob. I came across your cry for help recently. Are you still having problems with your background shapes or have you managed to sort it out by now. If not let me know and I will try and see if I can suss out what is going on. Tony W. posted: 7 Sep 2011 10:11 from: Bob Juleff Hi Tony, Many thanks for offering to help and I would like to take up your kind offer. The thing is I last played with Templot back in July and quite frankly became disillusioned with it. However I would like to use it fully, so if you give me a couple of days to get back to where I was trippng up, I'll try to give you some symptoms. Bob posted: 7 Sep 2011 11:15 from: Martin Wynne Hi Bob, I'm sorry ...
... topic: 1564 Transmitting the throw posted: 16 Jul 2011 10:04 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, I've been chewing the cud so to speak just recently over the various methods of operating turnouts. By far the best electrical method is to my mind, some form of slow-motion mechanism. What I think puts people off (including me) though are 2 things cost and how much noise they generate. It cannot be said that any of the readily available slow-motion motors are really that quiet (this may be OK in an exhibition setting but not at home). So that just leaves R/C servo motors and manual operation. Whilst R/C Servo Motors are not totally silent they are as near to it as we are likely to get for the moment. Manual Control may not be suitable in every instance due to personal preference and location (yes I know about memory wire but not for me). Both have the same issue though. That is, how to transmit the throw to the tiebar. If ...
... topic: 2756 Parallel Vees- how do I go from here? posted: 10 Oct 2015 21:05 from: Jubilee42 I'm trying to use Templot to design my layout. I've cheated a bit by roughing it out in AnyRail, but without any proper turnouts, which I am planning on building myself. I've spent 6 or 7 hours with Templot and gone forwards and backwards in equal measure. I can see the potential, it's just utterly unlike any program I've used before! Anyway, I've found a really useful function to create turnouts with parallel exits- brilliant!! But I want to put another turnout on the turnout side,and it won't let me, because of the Vee I've used. can anyone give me a shove in the right direction? Ta! 3033_101604_080000000.png posted: 10 Oct 2015 21:34 from: Martin Wynne Hi, The parallel type of V-crossing is a bit of a legacy from years ago and not much used nowadays. As you can see it is limited in what you can do with it ...
... action should be available (adjust V-crossing entry straight). Will be fixed in the next update. It's not often an irregular half-diamond has a regular V-crossing, but it can do -- for example when it is required to form a crossover with a regular turnout: 2_110840_390000000.png Adjusting the crossing entry straight then allows some fine tuning of the lead length to fit the site. For example in the above screenshot the irregular diamond-crossing has angles 1:7.5, 1:8.5, 1:10. The 1:8.5 K-crossing angle means the K-crossings will need to be movable (switch-diamond), requiring point-motors awkwardly close to the baseboard joint. By increasing the crossing entry straight (see the marker, boxed yellow -- it would normally be near the V-crossing) I was able to shorten the half-diamond a bit. I then snaked (CTRL+ F6) the other half-diamond back into alignment with it. Note that I put the peg on ...
639. Templot on Mac
... topic: 2759 Templot on Mac posted: 16 Oct 2015 19:16 from: roythebus I've read on here before it's not possible to run Templot on a Mac, but would it be possible to run it on a Mac using Parallels software? This can apparently run all Windows reliant programs, but would I also have to install windows as well to run Templot? I'm really fed up with Windows software, my Compaq running Windows 7 has become so slow it's almost unusable, and I really can't get to grips with Windows 10, hence the change to Apple Mac. posted: 16 Oct 2015 19:51 from: Martin Wynne Hi Roy, Lots of Templot users are running Templot on a Mac. There are 3 ways of doing it, see: http://templot.com/companion/index.html?basic_qa.htm Unfortunately you have just missed a special offer on CrossOver, see: topic 2735- message 19205 Sorry I know next to nothing about Macs, but others here will be happy to help. Winebottler is free, but it seems can ...
... topic: 2751 Problem with loading 212a posted: 7 Oct 2015 08:33 from: David Long Martin, I tried to load the update this morning but my anti-virus program, Avast, blocked it as an infected file and I am now unable to access my files. Before I temporarily uninstall Avast to allow the upload can I be certain that the new version hasn't acquired any unpleasant add-ons? Regards David posted: 7 Oct 2015 10:04 from: Raymond I use Bitdefender and the the new Templot installed without any problems at all and runs perfectly. Some setting in Avast perhaps? Raymond posted: 7 Oct 2015 10:44 from: David Long It's very odd. I have been running Avast on successive machines fro around five or six years but it has never so firmly blocked any updates previously. David posted: 7 Oct 2015 12:36 from: JFS David Long wrote: It's very odd. I have been running Avast on successive machines fro around five or six years but it has never so firmly blocked ...
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