... Templot most of the dialog windows have had scaling buttons: 2_170857_410000002.png These buttons have had little comment over the years. So either they work exactly as required, or no-one ever uses them. (Apart from the predictable complaint that the buttons are the wrong way round -- you can't please everyone. The up button shrinks the window up towards the top caption bar, the down button expands it down away from the top caption bar.) Each click changes the scale of the dialog window in the ratio 9:10 or 10:9. This is the minimum you can go down to: 2_170857_410000001.png And this is the maximum you can go up to: 2_170857_400000000.png The reason I'm writing about this now is the recent introduction of some very high resolution small screens, such as on the Surface Pro 3 from Microsoft, and similar tablet computers running a full version of Windows. I would be interested to know if anyone is running Templot on one of these, and how you get on with these scaling buttons? Do they help to see ...

... 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 ...

... topic: 2962 Query about flat bottom rail not showing templates posted: 10 Jan 2017 20:03 from: Colin Parks I have been working on a plan for a P4 test track, which combines track with bullhead and flat bottom rails. Having printed out and stuck down the first set of templates on the baseboard, a second attempt at printing one of the points with flat bottom rails, it stubbornly refused to print the rail foot, remaining as if bullhead. Attached is the BOX file, the point in question is number 35. What could have happened? Colin Attachment: attach_2373_2962_Super_Test_Track_#4_extended_version.box 174 posted: 10 Jan 2017 20:27 from: Martin Wynne Hi Colin, Welcome to Templot Club. Your template no. 35 is labelled "bullhead". It is however set for flat-bottom rails and is printing as such here. Note that only background templates can be printed with a rail foot (blue-grey rails). The control template cannot yet be printed that way*. Did you perhaps have no. ...

... a length of straight between reverse curves isn't always feasible. But Templot makes it easy to create smooth S-curve transitions in place of reverse curves: 2_292139_340000000.png Here I have used Templot's make transition function to create a sweeping S-curve transition between your curves at A and B. You can see what I meant by a less geometric and more flowing design. Now we can create another transition for the other running line, and start inserting the pointwork into the curves: 2_292143_000000000.png I changed some of your turnouts to C-10 size. That is always a good size to use if you have room for them when creating curved pointwork, allowing easier radii than shorter curved turnouts. This is the result: 2_292145_330000000.png You can see that this has a more prototypical flow to it in the yellow tracks than your original unmodified blue tracks at the top. Here is the same section when printed out for construction: 2_292148_520000000.png regards, Martin. posted: 1 Jan 2017 11:25 from: drrsenior Hi Martin, Thank you for spending more time on this ...

... do you save a print file? I understand how you save a box file of templates. Is this what an external printer will require? Will an external printer need Templot software to read the file? If they don't have the software, how will they calibrate their printer? I was hoping plans could be printed on wide rolls (up to a metre?) to reduce errors. If this is not possible or prohibitively expensive, then I am left with A4 printing on my home printer 2. Can you select say 10 pages at a time or do you have to select all 284 pages and then select from those printed pages once printed? At present it is taking about a minute to print each page when I select a 1/12 size reduction. Will it take say 5 hours to print all 284 pages? My printer is a HP Pro K550. I am really pleased with the plan I have created. Although it has taken many hours to refine, it is infinitely quicker than the several failed attempts I have had to date ...

... 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 ...

... of the basic connections survived to be photographed and they really were as tight as they look. And as for short switches... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holborn_Viaduct_2020606.jpg The LCDR was an enigma, yes they understood budgets, but equally, they had no right to put a railway here at all, and no expense was spared on the station frontage. And they built Crystal Palace High Level! Cheers, Howard Last edited on 9 Feb 2014 17:41 by JFS posted: 11 Feb 2014 10:54 from: rodney_hills Hello, Ludgate Hill is covered in Alan A Jackson's book "London's Termini", David& Charles 1969. It reprints both the 1890s plan and the 1910 rebuilding plan from an article in the Dec 1964 Railway Magazine. I have both book and magazine, but the latter article is online here: http://www.semgonline.com/RlyMag/ line: Ludgate Hill Station: http://www.semgonline.com/RlyMag/LudgateHillStation.pdf The article say that more detail of the 1910 rebuilding appears in the June ...

... topic: 345 Printing Trackplan and Scanned Map posted: 23 Feb 2008 10:40 from: George McKenzie Hi, I have been searching through the Templot messages and can't find the information which I need to print my template with the OS map as background. The template prints fine but there is no evidence of the map. Many thanks, George McKenzie posted: 23 Feb 2008 10:52 from: Martin Wynne George McKenzie wrote: Hi, I have been searching through the Templot messages and can't find the information which I need to print my template with the OS map as background. The template prints fine but there is no evidence of the map. Hi, George, On the print pages dialog click the picture shapes tab and then the print pictures (stretch) option. See: print_picture_shapes.png Make sure you click the? help button and read the notes. And check your ink cartridges!( N.B. If using Windows 95, 98 or ME this is unlikely to be successful if you are printing finished templates. In most cases the ...

... topic: 2390 Tandems again- omitting timbers posted: 26 Jan 2014 15:10 from: Trevor Walling Hello, I would like to master making tandems but I have a problem at the start of the video tutorial. undefined 2110_261007_450000000.png 2110_261009_040000000.png How do I get from turnouts fully timbered to a pair with timbers missing like those at the beginning of the video please? Trevor posted: 26 Jan 2014 15:16 from: Raymond If you want to remove all the timbers in a turnout go to 'Real' 'Timbering' 'No timbering'. If you want to remove some but not all timbers then go to 'Real' 'Shove timbers'. Hope that helps Raymond posted: 26 Jan 2014 15:35 from: Trevor Walling Thanks Raymond posted: 26 Jan 2014 16:38 from: Martin Wynne Hi Trevor, 1. real> shove timbers..., or SHIFT+ F10, or press the COMMA key. 2. the timber numbers will appear, and this dialog: 2_261130_460000000.png 3. click on the number of the timber which you ...

... to reposition page boundaries when printing control templates posted: 9 Apr 2017 16:25 from: vistisen OK I discovered that if I move the point in the track plan so that it is no longer attached to the surrounding track then the preview fits two pages. But it is IMHO a bit of a kludge. As the adjoining track is no longer in the correct position and that makes matching sleepers at the end of points difficult Last edited on 9 Apr 2017 16:28 by vistisen posted: 9 Apr 2017 19:10 from: Martin Wynne Hi, No need to move the template. SHIFT+ CTRL+ F10 mouse action to move the page origin to a more convenient position. action> mouse actions:trackpad> move page origin. See also output> page origin menu options, and output> trim margins. The page origin is marked with a small purple square. Then to set it precisely click the bottom line on the mouse action panel in the usual way instead of going to the above menu item: 2_110526_410000000.png pad_symbols.png regards, ...