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... posted: 13 Mar 2010 15:55 from: Dellboy Arthur Budd wrote: After my success producing a usable track plan yesterday I've hit another wall trying to produce the baseboard outline as a background shape. Arthur Hello Arthur You may want to have a try at what I did. I drew an outline scale drawing for my overall layout in M/S Excel, screen printed it into Windows Paint (edit/paste), carefully cropped it, saved it as a 24-bit Bitmap image (or could save as jpg etc.) and loaded it into Templot as a background picture shape, the x dimension being the actual length available for the layout. This produced a very accurate outline to work from. As the track design progressed I was able to develop/modify the Excel drawing to show shapes for the baseboards, positions for joints and framing, positions for cutouts for WITs, TOUs etc. It is a simple matter to regenerate the Excell drawing into templot as you make your adjustments to track and/or baseboards, to see ...
... ? On the .bmp the problem area in question doesn't look like a slip but it seems to work. I see what you mean about unwanted templates in the storage box so i've cleaned that up Cheers Mark posted: 14 Mar 2010 22:05 from: tony polman nice work. love to see you get round to build this as a working layout. mind you, even in `N` gauge would occupy 30ft? Last edited on 14 Mar 2010 22:06 by tony polman posted: 14 Mar 2010 22:10 from: Mark Leigh Hi Tony, My thoughts exactly. Unfortunately my numbers on the lotto haven't come in yet. Short of a millionaire donating a building about 90ft long by 40 wide to allow for storage cassettes and of course the final bit of the West Yard i can't see building it...Shame Thanks Anyway Mark posted: 14 Mar 2010 22:26 from: Martin Wynne Mark Leigh wrote: I haven't loaded the .bmp file as that is also too large 60.4MB (10.4MB when zipped). Not sure ...
... topic: 1087 Switched crossing v Double Slip posted: 26 Mar 2010 20:10 from: Gordon S Probably a daft question, but just completed a double junction complex with a 8.25 switched crossing. When doing the first tests with a Bachmann bogie wagon it simply sailed through the crossing, which was great, but even seemed to like going across the adjacent curve without problem as though it were a double slip. Has a very shallow crossing or something similar ever been used as a slip in protype practice? I said it was a daft question, but it seems a very easy way of creating a double slip.... Stop laughing at the back.... Last edited on 26 Mar 2010 20:11 by Gordon S posted: 26 Mar 2010 21:45 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: Has a very shallow crossing or something similar ever been used as a slip in prototype practice? I said it was a daft question, but it seems a very easy way of creating a double slip... ...
1004. Counting sleepers
... sleepers posted: 1 Apr 2010 00:54 from: Andrew Campbell Since counting sleepers has a lot in common with counting sheep or indeed rivets, I'd like to know if there's a canny way of getting Templot to count the total number of sleepers of a layout designed in Templot? By the same taken, can Templot measure how much rail I'm going to need? I appreciate I'll lose a fair amount of rail in off-cuts making turnouts. Kind regards and happy Easter Andrew Campbell posted: 1 Apr 2010 04:10 from: Martin Wynne Andrew Campbell wrote: Since counting sleepers has a lot in common with counting sheep or indeed rivets, I'd like to know if there's a canny way of getting Templot to count the total number of sleepers of a layout designed in Templot? By the same taken, can Templot measure how much rail I'm going to need? Hi Andrew, Sorry, these functions aren't available at present. See: message 5187 regards, Martin. posted: 2 Apr 2010 12:59 from: Brian Lewis Andrew, ...
1005. Odd Mark on Pad
... to datum menu item geometry> shift/rotate> rotate to datum menu item There is a lot of this low-level maths stuff left in Templot from the days before I released the program for general use. I haven't removed it because I sometimes find it useful when testing new features. For more information, go to the geometry> shift/rotate> settings (expert)> set datum... menu item, and click the help F2 button. regards, Martin. posted: 31 Mar 2010 19:10 from: allanferguson Well, many thanks for putting me out of my mysery. I don't profess to understand it, but I'm reassured to know that it's meant! I'll have a wee play later and maybe make sense of it. Allan Ferguson Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Odd Mark on Pad about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: ...
... near side of the curve and the transition completed. Is this anywhere in the doco's as the error message is confusing. Purely by luck I just swapped the peg position to see what would happen. Cheers Bruce posted: 12 Apr 2010 17:07 from: Martin Wynne BruceNordstrand wrote: Is this anywhere in the doco's as the error message is confusing. Purely by luck I just swapped the peg position to see what would happen. Hi Bruce, Yes it is, but perhaps not too easy to find. See para 10 at: http://www.templot.com/martweb/info_files/make_trans.htm from which: If one of the original templates was itself a transition template, the new transition will be matched to it according to the position of its fixing peg. The same information is available within the program by clicking the geometry> transition curve>? transition help menu item, followed by clicking the about the make transition function button. and also at: peg/align tools> make transition curve from the control template>? make transition help ...
1007. Slip ladders at night
... topic: 1106 Slip ladders at night posted: 17 Apr 2010 04:06 from: Martin Wynne A striking image: http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/8 /3 /6 /3836.1226798708.jpg Union Station, Chicago. From this site and more (with advertising): http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=260238 Martin. posted: 17 Apr 2010 10:49 from: Nigel Brown Martin Impressive! But you can tell they didn't use Templot; no sweeping curves! cheers Nigel posted: 17 Apr 2010 20:37 from: Paul Boyd That would be fun to model! Adverts? Just block them! I use AdBlock Plus with Firefox and it's pretty effective. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Prototype pics> Slip ladders at night about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing ...
1008. ADMIN -- user support
... development in the coming months, but I regret to say that it hasn't happened -- development of Templot has been as sporadic as ever, if not more so. Something has to change if we are ever going to get another upgrade released -- it is now over 2 years since 091c. I have thought long and hard about this and come to a conclusion which I hope everyone will find reasonable: In future I shall be available here on Templot Club or by email to deal with user support requests during the first 10 days of each month only. For the rest of the month I shall be working on the program or the web site instead. Those who know me will be amazed if I manage to stick to this, but I'm certainly going to try. Because otherwise Templot development is likely to come to a complete halt. Accordingly, I would be very grateful if members would try as now to deal with the simpler requests between themselves, and if something trickier crops up to advise the member concerned that a response from me should ...
... "waybeams") running along the top of the girders to which the chairs are fixed. In order to fit, these chairs need to have a wide square footprint instead of the narrow rectangular footprint of the ordinary chairs used on transverse sleepers. Bridge chairs have the same base thickness as ordinary chairs. Bridge chairs have an additional use in pointwork where the square footprint allows them to be fitted closer together than ordinary chairs, like this: chairing_patterns.gif Bridge chairs are too wide to be used on plain track sleepers which are only 10" (254mm) wide. Pointwork timbers are 12" (305mm) wide, as shown above. regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Prototype pics> About the most "bridge" chair. about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to ...
1010. Paste?
... -handed -- click-dab. (You may have your copy of Windows configured not to show the underlines until you press the ALT key.) The underlines aren't always easy to spot. It may be an advantage to make the accelerator keys more prominent, like this perhaps -- comments welcome: 2_051043_260000000.png Note that menu accelerator keys are a bog-standard feature of Windows. Thanks for all other the comments on this topic. I've got the message. regards, Martin. posted: 5 May 2010 17:10 from: Paul Whitaker Keyboard shortcuts are available for most of the items on that menu via the Windows "accelerator keys" (the underlined letters in menu items) in version 082d and later (sorry, not in 074b). Excellent (You may have your copy of Windows configured not to show the underlines until you press the ALT key.) Yes, thanks to Microsoft- apparently the default setting since Windows 2000 (I'm using XP). Guess that's why I missed them (and pressing ALT kills pop- ...
1011. newbie
... be the last thing to buy! I seem to start the boards then drift onto another project, so I reckon if I build the track first I'll be able to plop it onto the boards and get something running quickly! Cheers posted: 9 Mar 2010 21:57 from: tony polman Thanks for that, paul. open frame boards. think the ideas been around a while. having invested in Templot, iyo, would it still be of advantage to me to join EMGS? posted: 9 Mar 2010 22:10 from: Paul Boyd would it still be of advantage to me to join EMGS? Without a shadow of a doubt Thanks to some "budget cuts", the EMGS is now the only society of which I'm a member, modelling in P4 (a gauge also supported by the EMGS) Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Share and show> newbie about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index ...
1012. Low-memory mode
... 23 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin. Is that message still there on start-up? I just bang Return half a dozen times to get in As far as screen resolution goes, I can't imagine anyone using anything as low as 800x600 in everyday use, but bear in mind that you may have some visually impaired users who may want big things on the screen. I would have though 640x480 is dead and buried by now- I think my phone has higher resolution than that! posted: 15 Jun 2010 19:10 from: Jonathan Wells I have 512Mb on my laptop and Templot runs without complaining about lack of memory. It says a lot about your programming that a powerful application like Templot can run with as little as 512Mb( remember the days when 512Kb in a microcomputer would prompt frothing amongst teenagers??) Last edited on 15 Jun 2010 19:11 by Jonathan Wells posted: 15 Jun 2010 20:15 from: John Lewis Hi Martin Legacy features I have never seen the "Low Memory" warning. XP Professional SP3 ...
... ). A custom switch should be possible based on this. The timber spacings shown for the switch imply that the points (blade tips) are in fresh air overlapping the toe timber by 1". This would be an unusual arrangement, but no doubt photos could confirm it. Also for the most part the timbering is shown ends-in-line (real> timbering> timber ends in-line menu item), i.e. not centralized as in your file. regards, Martin. posted: 30 Jun 2010 10:58 from: julesmwatson Hi Martin (and Alan), My apologies- I had forgotten that I was posting on a UK based site. I'll not be so careless in the future. As already mentioned, the Victorian Railway (VR) broad gauge is 5'3" (ie the same as that used in Ireland- which is no accident, but that is a story for another day). I'm modelling in HO scale, but using a more prototypical gauge of 18.2mm (rather than 16.5mm). While the ...
1014. Printers v Plotters
... topic: 1161 Printers v Plotters posted: 7 Jul 2010 10:45 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, Recently I had occasion to dust off my ancient Roland Plotter and use it. Purpose was twofold. 1) I had just run out of normal A3 paper and only had plotter paper to hand having used most of my supply for a rather large project. 2) I wanted to test it out, as I have decided to use it for other purposes, namely custom waterslide transfer and pcb production (one-offs mainly) plus it also gives me the possibility for small quantities of chemical etching. How you might ask is this possible? Well, I originally bought the thing, many moons ago to produce artwork for just that but technology overtook the need for hardcopy and I was too busy to go further with it (all pre-dates my business activity). You can get special pens for it which can be used for putting down resist, for pcbs the only problem is board thickness, standard 1.6mm is too thick so ...
... topic: 1164 Straight track spec& turnout details posted: 12 Jul 2010 17:10 from: Mike Waldron Hi all: I see I got a mention on one of the other threads by Richard Jones- a fellow LBSCR modeller. I am the 'proprietor' (if you can call it that!) of E.B.Models- http://www.mjwsjw.co.uk- and I am currently endeavouring to get my head round producing 30' lengths of 1895 London Brighton& South Coast Railway specification track in Templot- and also interlaced turnouts. These latter, under the Brighton regime, had 4 timbers under the crossing nose area- one before the nose, one under, and two after it. They also had check rails only 4 chairs long. I have switch lengths, planing lengths and most of the information to hand- but I'm blowed if I can get it sorted. Can anyone help please? Mike Waldron. If it would be easier to contact me off group, them my email address is mike@mjwsjw.co.uk Parts of Templot Club may not function ...
1016. Mixed gauge
... start by drawing (a) my own 7mm layout and (b) my club's 7mm NG layout. The club layout has a standard gauge track running through, which is mixed at times(!) and a lot of NG (16.5mm) track/points. So far I have managed to get the track plan imported as a background. Is it possible to do mixed gauge track, and is there a simple way? Paul PS- there may not be an immediate response from me as I'm off on hols for 10 days on Wednesday Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Mixed gauge about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, all the files submitted to this web site are copyright and the ...
... to be working. The initial problem may have occured due to the default printer defaulting to the fax printer on the network server rather than the actual printer that was installed on the computer. I also checked if the switchable graphics was causing the problem as the laptop switches between the Intel integrated graphics or the Radeon graphics card dependent on whether it is running on battery power or not. There were no apparent issues. I'll now copy over all the box files created with 091c. Regards, David. posted: 15 Aug 2010 10:14 from: Martin Wynne David Smith wrote: Reinstalled 091c and had success this time. Hi David, By the way, this is the first time you have mentioned that you had the printer defaulting to a network printer. If you had mentioned that in your first message, I could have told you the problem straight away. All -- please, please, when you ask for help, give all the details. The download note at: topic 330 says: Just a reminder that Templot needs a default ...
... topic: 1176 interlaced sleepers on a 3-way turnout posted: 24 Jul 2010 11:40 from: Mike Waldron Has anyone produced a 3 way turnout with interlaced sleepers? Apparently they were fashionable in the early days of the LB&SCR. Would value any help possible Mike Last edited on 24 Jul 2010 11:53 by Mike Waldron posted: 26 Jul 2010 10:23 from: Mike Waldron I have just been running the 3 way Tandem turnout video- which is great- but I have not quite worked out how to get to the starting point- namely to being with both turnouts stripped of their central timbers. Added to which, I am working with interlaced sleepers instead of some of the timbers- LBSCR pre 1900 practise. I suspect that the timbers left out are the ones I will be interlacing- from the rear of the switches to the 4 timbers that the crossing and check rails are set on. It's just getting to that stage I'm not sure of. The rest I can work out from the video. ...
1019. Pug .91c
... from: railwaynut02 Thanks Martin for your reply. I think I should say that I am operating Templot through Parallels 5 into Windows. Everything else works OK. Templot -74 works OK. After downloading I come to the run request, clicking this actions it into the next drop down. On clicking next here, it nows comes up with an unidentified error and would I contact the software supplier. Templot .74 still works OK. I have now deleted the downloads to allow a fresh start. railwaynut02 posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:32 from: Martin Wynne railwaynut02 wrote: Thanks Martin for your reply. I think I should say that I am operating Templot through Parallels 5 into Windows. Hi railwaynut02, I'm sorry I know nothing about Macs so I'm afraid I can't help. I'm sure there are other Mac users on here who can solve your problem. Have you installed a printer on Windows? Just a reminder that Templot needs a default local printer driver -- not a network printer -- to be able to run. The actual physical ...
1020. Newbie - Chair Types
... articles on this site about different chair types and placement. Is there anything out there that shows pictures of the different chair types and describes their uses? I am absolutely going to get started with PCB pointwork and avoid that question preventing me from starting building track. But I am looking to mix Peco Code 75 flex and haid laid track. Chairs will be obviously missing with this situation so I either need to resolve that or just do PCB everywhere which will increase the build time. Regards, Greg posted: 4 Aug 2010 10:46 from: Nigel Brown Hi Greg Do you really want to do that? You can buy code 75 flex track from suppliers such as C& L which is much closer to prototype dimensions, and hence to Templot, which will look much better when finished. You can also buy point kits which will provide chairs and information on how to use them. You could of course construct PCB pointwork and add cosmetic chairs; personally I've found that approach a bit tedious and would suggest using plastic sleepers as per the above ...
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