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61. Double slip
... you on your way Cheers Phil posted: 17 Feb 2012 09:26 from: RedgateModels Borg-Rail wrote: Depends on your minimum radius requirement. Tiebar operation could be less of an issue. RedgateModels wrote: Oh now you've done it, do I rejig Fourgig East AGAIN to use this 1:5 double slip and change the associated turnout to a 1:5 too, would make the run-round a lot longer.... But is a 1:5 slip workable? Well, I have an A4 already on the layout, so the 54.4" radius of the double slip will not trouble the 30.5" radius of the A4. The layout will be predominantly populated by small(ish) tank engines. Just hope I can construct the slip in front of the crowds at the Mansfield Show http://www.mansfieldmodelrailway.co.uk/ Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Share and show> Double slip about Templot Club Templot Companion- ...
62. A3+ printer
... topic: 3826 A3+ printer posted: 1 Dec 2020 19:16 from: Paul Boyd Good evening all! For ages I've wanted an A3 or A3+ printer but they've always seemed too big or too expensive. I got fed up with sticking bits of A4 paper together for even quite small templates. I've now bought myself an HP Officejet 7110 from ebuyer for not much over £100, it's relatively small for an A3 printer and has a wireless connection which for me is important so I can tuck it under a chair when not in use, with no cabling to unplug. Reviews suggest it's not that good for photo printing, but frankly if you want an A3 photo printed, it's cheaper to go to a print shop! The next problem was paper. A3 copy paper is abundant, A3+ photo paper is abundant, but A3+ decent quality plain paper isn't! Eventually I found a company called FirstForPaper who list Swift paper, and the 120gsm is available as a special size of 13" x 19" (A3+ ...
... map under vers. 0.82d. The results are: (1) in the print menu the default mode still reports "colour printing" (2) The OS background map in 8-bit grayscale did not print with the trackplan (print pictures stretch is checked) (3) The OS background map in B&W (1 bit) didn't print out this time- it did under vers. 0.91b (print pictures stretch is checked) As a sidenote: the HP laserjet 1022 prints the OS map on a single A4 in grayscale as expected. Pragmatically, I'm happy enough to use the grayscale image of the OS map to do my design work on and then switch to the B&W version of the OS map when I want to print out. kindest regards Edward Martin Wynne wrote: Edward wrote: I finally managed to get the underlying OS map to print with the trackwork on top. The only way this would work was to convert the original OS map into a black&white image (1 bit) of size 74KB cf ...
64. 3 way point help
... crossing vee will not fit. Regards Tony W. Attachment: attach_2353_2946_3_way_A6.box 232 posted: 13 Dec 2016 01:50 from: Martin Wynne Hi, Welcome to Templot Club. As others have said there are a few issues with your tandem to fit in the check and wing rails for the middle crossing. Ideally the first turnout needs to be a bit longer, maybe a B-7 or a 12ft switch -7. You might also do better changing to 4-SF (00-SF) rather than 00-BF, as the narrower flangeways make more room. If you can post a bit more of your .box file so that we can see how the connecting tracks align we may be able to find a better solution. For the chairs, the best way is to study an Exactoscale template from C&L. If you are a member of the Scalefour Society you can download some of them from the Society's web site and zoom in to see all the chairing detail round the crossings and switch heels. Here is a drawing showing ...
... , just for the record, the Function Key Chart shows CTRL-F10 as SWELL which works fine for me and F10 as K ANGLE which doesn't (my problem, nothing to do with Templot) but the Keyboard Shortcuts list shows CTRL-F10 as ZOOM and F10 as SWELL Yes thanks. Many of the Help texts have not yet been updated for Templot2. It's on the list. The correct keyboard shortcuts can be found by looking at the relevant menu items. What is your problem with F10? Windows uses F10 to focus the menu bar, but Templot should be by-passing that to use it as a normal shortcut. regards, Martin. posted: 25 Aug 2012 18:50 from: dickc Martin Wynne wrote: dickc wrote: I know how to swap end to end the control template using CTRL-N but how can I do the same with grouped templates please? Hi Dick, For a turnout, swapping a template end-for-end swaps the direction from facing to trailing (or back) on the same alignment ...
... topic: 1673 Is my Slip workable? posted: 1 Nov 2011 10:25 from: RedgateModels Hi, been playing around with an O gauge version of Ian Morton's Shake the Box layout following fun at the Birkenhead show last weekend. To fit it all in in 8x4ft I've resorted to a single slip within the run-round for access to the sidings. I've based it on a modified A4 template and it's tight, looks like the checkrails on one side will not fit. Sooooo, is it workable or do I have to start again with a turnout with a more gentle radius? Martin, I'd appreciate your expert opinion EDIT: just noticed the slip rails have disappeared, not sure why, but I'll have a go at putting them back! cheers Ian Attachment: attach_1223_1673_4gig2_slip.box 303 Last edited on 1 Nov 2011 11:10 by RedgateModels posted: 1 Nov 2011 16:27 from: Martin Wynne Hi Ian, 1:4 is too short for an inside slip. The radius would be too tight and constructing the K-crossings ...
... what I would find really useful would be an additional option on the "transition curve acceptance menu" that says something like "Yes- Continue and replace foundation templates". I find that the majority of the time I change the length of the transition curve, from both ends, to overlap the entirety of the two foundation templates and then delete the latter. One click to do all this would save time. And on the subject of transition curves, but possibly harder to implement; would it be possible to release the focus from the acceptance menu? Some TCs are much larger than the underlying templates. When showing the result, the trackbed is zoomed out to show the whole of the TC template and it is sometime not possible to see which of the left or right handed TC is correct without zooming in. Unfortunately you cannot do this until the TC acceptance menu is dismissed. But this is a minor and rare bugbear. Thanks, Duncan posted: 5 Jul 2012 22:52 from: Martin Wynne Hi Duncan, Many thanks for those ...
... -S ply method. It still remains that ply is cheaper at this stage then either copper or plastic. And copperclad is only going one way. I suspect its days ate numbered for track construction. Note that if building to 00-Sf there is no completely fully functional chair based solution without modifying chairs posted: 1 Jun 2015 14:06 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: Note that if building to 00-Sf there is no completely fully functional chair based solution without modifying chairs The same applies to 00-BF, DOGA-Fine, and EM. Only P4 has a full set of functional chairs available (Exactoscale). Martin. posted: 1 Jun 2015 23:24 from: Hayfield madscientist wrote: The reason i added chairs to copperclad was to compare like for like. I see no additional madness to adding cosmetic chairs to copperclad as to add them to B-S ply method. It still remains that ply is cheaper at this stage then either copper or plastic. And copperclad is only going one way. I ...
69. Printing Query
... topic: 1543 Printing Query posted: 17 Jun 2011 21:10 from: Richard_Jones Hi Martin, Probably a really simple query, but can I move a group of templates to optimise how it prints out when restricted to A4? ie minimum number with turnouts on a single sheet many thanks Richard posted: 17 Jun 2011 22:13 from: Martin Wynne Richard_Jones wrote: Probably a really simple query, but can I move a group of templates to optimise how it prints out when restricted to A4? ie minimum number with turnouts on a single sheet Hi Richard, Sure. You can either 1. move the page origin and page outlines -- SHIFT+ CTRL+ F10 mouse action (action> mouse actions: pad> move page origin). This is the simplest and quickest way to optimize the templates within the page outlines. or 2. move the templates on the grid. If you have designed your track plan to fit a known baseboard or location you may not want to change its position on the grid. In which case ...
70. Printing Error
... topic: 1333 Printing Error posted: 10 Jan 2011 16:26 from: BeamEnds Hi all, when printing out the points on the 7. Headshunt (just these points), on landscape A4 paper (three sheets instead of five in portrait) from Small Soddingham (file is in the 'Share And Show' thread) the long timbers that extend under the adjacent road are truncated on at the edge of the paper. It could be just my set-up, and it's not the end of the world, but I thought it might be worth mentioning. Cheers Richard posted: 10 Jan 2011 16:44 from: Martin Wynne BeamEnds wrote: when printing out the points on the 7. Headshunt (just these points), on landscape A4 paper (three sheets instead of five in portrait) from Small Soddingham (file is in the 'Share And Show' thread) the long timbers that extend under the adjacent road are truncated on at the edge of the paper. Hi Richard, In calculating which pages to print, Templot takes ...
71. Printer problems
... that I have tried to print something out for the first time I have hit a snag: my printer consistently hangs up just before ejecting the first page. This leaves the print job in the spooler queue, which will not clear with the usual 'cancel' command, only by running an NT command script in administrator mode to kill the spooler queue. I work in '0' gauge so I appreciate that the number of pages will be large, but I have tried even a basic single default turnout template, covering just two A4 pages, with exactly the same problem. My PC is running XP with Office 2010. The printer is an Epson DX4200 inkjet (incidentally for which it says there are no calibration files). Any ideas what to try next, change settings, etc., would be appreciated. posted: 21 May 2012 14:56 from: Martin Wynne Brian_G wrote: I have hit a snag: my printer consistently hangs up just before ejecting the first page. Hi Brian, It is not intended to print anything until you ...
72. Happy Christmas
... topic: 2813 Happy Christmas posted: 23 Dec 2015 18:35 from: Martin Wynne After buying presents for everyone else, how about one for yourself? The Times coffee-table book "Mapping the Railways", originally published at £30 is currently on offer in WHSmith for just £3. Which is a bargain for a nicely-finished A4 hardback with dust cover, 300 full-colour pages, every kind of map of UK railways, all excellently reproduced. Happy Christmas everyone and best wishes for 2016. Martin. posted: 23 Dec 2015 23:14 from: Rob Manchester Hello Martin, A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too. Thank you for all your excellent work with Templot support. Rob posted: 24 Dec 2015 09:12 from: Phil O Merry Christmas Martin, I am in Stourport so will nip into Kidder later to see if they still have the book. Thanks for the info Phil posted: 24 Dec 2015 10:28 from: Martin Wynne Phil O wrote: I am ...
... . How do I adjust the timber spacing for the whole turnout, and then save those settings? Hi Giles, You didn't specify a gauge, but I assume you mean 00 gauge? There is a Templot file which you can download containing templates already matched to C&L 00 gauge templates: http://www.templot.com/samples/cl_00_gauge_equiv.box (In Firefox right-click on the above link and click "Save Link As...") Here are the notes about it: '00 Gauge templates in 00-BF standard matching C&L 00 Gauge templates for A5, B6, B7, B8 turnouts. Intended to be used when you prefer the closer than prototype timber spacings for 00 gauge, or you want to produce curved versions of C&L templates, or you have existing trackwork which has been built on C&L templates and want to include it in your track design. To preserve the shoved timber spacings do not mint from these templates (e.g. via the "quick set..." function). ...
... garden today. Regards Rob posted: 22 Mar 2015 02:37 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: Would it be possible sometime in the future to have a 'Simple Mode' track plan output option? Hi Rob, All things are possible, but first I need to understand what you want and why you need it? Your description isn't too clear, sorry. Do you mean at full size for construction templates? Or at reduced size for display, web sites, control panel, etc.? On a single A4 page, or multiple A4 pages, or large single page for roll-paper printing? Are you trying to save ink? At full size for construction it's not obvious why you would want any information omitted -- already there are several options in the printed elements dialog: 2_212124_360000000.png At reduced size for display you may find it better to print via the sketchboard in detail mode. Yes it's great to have some sunshine, I have been out walking by the river: 2_212134_520000000.jpg regards, Martin. posted: 22 Mar 2015 ...
... topic: 2387 Sketchboard print scaling. Help please? posted: 23 Jan 2014 15:08 from: Dasatcopthorne Hi Guys. I've managed to get a trackplan to appear on sketchboard but it only seems to want to print it on one A4 sheet. How can you change this please? Cheers Dave in 00-SF posted: 24 Jan 2014 06:26 from: Martin Wynne Dasatcopthorne wrote: I've managed to get a trackplan to appear on sketchboard but it only seems to want to print it on one A4 sheet. How can you change this please? Hi Dave, What do you want to change? 1. print it on more than one sheet? or 2. print it on a larger or smaller sheet? 1. To print the sketchboard design on multiple sheets like the track templates, use the normal template printing or PDF export functions in the output menu: 2_240057_360000000.png On the preview, tick the print sketchboard items option. You can swap between detail mode and diagram mode as required. You can control the number of pages ...
... track plan will be similar, but altered to my requirements. Sightly compressed in length. Using commercially available building kits altered to give the flavour of the station, perhaps keeping the goods shed. Sort of how it might have developed, rather than a slavish representation I wish I knew not only how to import these maps into Templot, but also how to get it to the correct size. As far as I am concerned a total black art. When ever I try with scanned maps the enlargements tend to be out of focus etc Thanks again, much appreciated posted: 3 Feb 2018 17:32 from: Tony W Martin Wynne wrote: The turnouts turned out to be 1:8 as usual, but will have moved since then (for a longer loco clearance at the end). cheers, Martin. The GWR also had the same problem as the platform road release was extended at some time by cutting back into the platform several feet. Regards Tony. posted: 3 Feb 2018 17:53 from: Martin Wynne Hayfield wrote: ...
... topic: 3363 Printing track plan posted: 5 Dec 2018 15:26 from: roythebus I know this has probably been asked before, how can I print a small scale copy of a proposed track plan using just the centre lines on something like a standard A4 sheet? posted: 5 Dec 2018 16:30 from: Martin Wynne roythebus wrote: I know this has probably been asked before, how can I print a small scale copy of a proposed track plan using just the centre lines on something like a standard A4 sheet? Hi Roy, To print on a single page, click this menu option before printing: 2_051112_520000000.png To change which elements appear on a printed output, for example if you want only track centre-lines, click this menu item: 2_051112_520000001.png This dialog will then appear, and you can untick elements not wanted: 2_051112_520000002.png You can then print quickly by clicking this menu item: 2_051112_520000003.png If you print only track centre-lines, you may find that they are too faint. You can click this option: 2_051122_570000000.png ...
... me to zoom, I have to close the Background shape box, zoom, open the background box and start again. Any chance it could allow zooming without the need to close the background box? I will probably be told now that I have missed something and I can do this all along! Alan posted: 7 Mar 2009 12:36 from: Martin Wynne Alan Turner wrote: Any chance it could allow zooming without the need to close the background box? Hi Alan, You can't zoom on the workpad without shifting focus to it, which inevitably means it will come to the front. You could re-size the workpad window so that it doesn't obscure the background shapes window in the process, but that is really only practical if you have multiple monitors. (Zooming the workpad also cancels any mouse action in force, because a change of zoom means the mouse action response setting must be changed.) But you don't have to close the background shapes. Click on the workpad title bar at the top of the screen. That will ...
... topic: 3393 Templot print output posted: 6 Mar 2019 15:26 from: Martin Wynne Anyone here adept at data-mining from government stats? I was trying to find the number of households having an A4 printer (or larger), rather than simply the number of computers or internet access. There's quite a lot of evidence that the number of home printers is falling rapidly. Certainly the price of ink and the amount of it the kids get through are no longer the talking points they once were. High street copy-shops seem to be the place where folks now get their photos printed, if they bother to print them at all. Googling "uk plan printing" returns dozens of places offering large-format digital printing from PDF files. Which has obvious implications for Templot. Is it time to shift the emphasis from printed output to the PDF export as the default output? Going further, there is plenty of space on our server. Templot could optionally upload the PDFs to the server as part of the output process. ...
... there isn't any way in Templot to do a print run along the Y-axis. If you were to export a PDF file for wide-format printing at a local copy shop, you could set up the PDF pages to be tall and narrow, and export only the pages you want into the file: 2_121517_210000001.png 2_121517_210000000.png If your roll/banner printer is capable of it, your PDF reader program may be able to print such tall narrow pages to it as single sheets. However, for home banner printing on an A4 or A3 printer direct from Templot, I think the only option is to rotate the trackplan, or parts of it, by 90 degrees. Rotation takes place around the notch, which you can set to be at some convenient location on the grid before and after rotation, geometry> notch> menu items. Then the page origin for printing can be set anywhere you like. The trimmed page width can be set to match the grid lines, or vice versa, if that helps. I will have a think about ...
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