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... you were looking for. Attachment: attach_2457_3038_richard_bosmellin _curve.box 334 posted: 25 Jun 2017 09:53 from: RichardS Thanks Martin. I'm in good company if Gordon of Eastwood fame has also seen the phenomena. Glad too that it's a known 'system feature.' My PC is quite old now and has a few moments so I expect the processor capability is lacking as you suggest. I've added RAM and minimized all the other demands on the processor but I know it's nearly time for retirement. (Although it should run Win10 it didn't do it very well and I reverted to 8.1 so it's built in obsolescence is starting to kick in) Thanks for attending to that curve. I was trying to even out a change in radius after that turnout where I initially had a join between two templates. I hadn't noticed it wasn't aligned. I think I'm nearly there with the plan though. Onward! Best wishes Richard posted: 26 Jun 2017 12:12 from: RichardS Well, I think I'm there. I've flattened out the outer line. Shortened a ...
... on the match. The curve on the rails on the turnout sides doesn't quite match between the switch and the crossing. Using a slightly shallower crossing might help but increases the overall length. I'll still perservere because it's been quite instructive in the geometry of the turnouts and the interaction between the switch settings and crossing. Adrian Attachment: attach_212_314_3way_m3.jpg 308 posted: 17 Jan 2008 04:49 from: Adrian Hopefully some one will correct me if I'm getting this wrong. I wasn't happy with the previous attempt as the centre crossing just didn't align correctly. looking at the photo it seemd to me that for the left hand turnout in particular the section between the left-hand crossing and the centre crossing was virtually straight. I had visions of mixing and matching all sorts of part templates to get the geometry but then I found the option "length of entry straight in front of fine point" in the "real> V crossing options...". So a little further tweaking has got me this far which I'm happier with. I think I'll ...
103. Print Rail Foot?
... . regards, Martin. posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:23 from: Mark C Martin, Thanks- worked like a charm! Sure isn't very intuitive, though. Oh well... Mark C posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:27 from: Martin Wynne Mark C wrote: Thanks- worked like a charm! Sure isn't very intuitive, though. Oh well... Hi Mark, I'm glad it worked. Unfortunately, one man's intuitive is another man's clear as mud. The problem was that you didn't set up the required flat-bottom prototype settings for the background templates before you created them. Which is the normal way of doing anything in Templot. I could have said that you would have to delete each one in turn back to the control template, modify it to flat-bottom, and then store it again as a fresh background template. Would that have been more intuitive? If you had 200 templates to do that way, it would take you a few hours. The modify on rebuild group functions are ...
... modeller) posted: 28 Jul 2007 02:29 from: Paul Boyd Phil- it's probably quite difficult to recommend specific cards because they change so fast, and because everyone's requirements are different. I have an old (secondhand from eBay) nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 with 128Mb of graphics memory. Despite being around 5 years old, it does just what I want, but I don't want to run graphics intensive games! It was also the only card I could find that had dual monitor support as well as video capture and didn't cost an arm and a leg! (I'm still very slowly copying my VHS to DVD) I suppose general things to look for are a card that will run at the maximum speed of the graphics slot on your motherboard, so AGP8x or whatever, as much memory as you can afford- at least 256Mb ideally, and if it's important to you one that runs quietly. I decided that having dual monitor support on one card would be a lot easier than running two cards. I initially ran a dual monitor setup ...
... 2018 01:31 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Here is a box file showing the rail not aligned in the 2nd v-crossing. Good night. Regards Rob Attachment: attach_2624_3185_Tandem_rail_issue .box 273 posted: 16 Jan 2018 02:48 from: Martin Wynne Hi Rob, The reason for the problem is that you started with a daft unusual size of turnout, a B-12. Were you simply stress-testing the tandem function, or were you intending to use such a turnout in your track plan? I didn't think to test for such an unusual size in the code, although I did say on the web page "The starting turnout can be any reasonable size". A B-12 is not reasonable or prototypical. Having such a short switch with a long regular-type V-crossing has caused a very long crossing entry straight, which has interfered with the curve calculations. The switch size for a 1:12 V-crossing would normally be a D or E. If you use F5 to set the turnout ...
... for working the lubricator. Likewise there might be a treadle at the other side which we can't actually see. If so, would that pose a danger to crews walking on the walkway which would need to be protected by a guard rail? ie to stop feet or trouser legs getting caught on the treadle bar? posted: 16 Nov 2014 02:09 from: Matt M. I might be wrong Derek, but as I understand it the P& M style rail and flange lubricators (which this looks like), didn't have a long treadle bar. The early versions were activated by track deflection on a steel spring which opened the ports of the grease container. The later versions worked off two little pump buttons that sat an eighth of an inch above the top of the rail on the outside attached to the container mounting. All of this was designed to sit between two consecutive chairs to allow easy placement. Two holes are drilled through the rail's web. These are hollow and allow the grease through to the grease plate assembly on the inside ...
... namely- Move the peg along it to the intersection (CTRL+ F8).- Store and background.- Change to constant radius.- Click other template and make diamond-crossing at intersection. At this point it seemed to work too well because as far as I could see the two halves of the diamond were there just as happens with a constant radius(which of course it now is or was???). But after that I couldn't see that I needed to do any further alignment so I didn't do any of the following. Is this where I went wrong. If it was then for some reason I couldn't see that any further alignment was necessary?- Click transition template and align one half-diamond over it and snake onto peg.- Use F9 mouse action to align the V-crossing over the underlying rails.- Repeat the above with the other half-diamond. So instead I simply split the transition curve in the middle of the Diamond and pulled them (the two halves of the transition curve ...
... having to redo track sections as I deleted the wrong pieces. I have tried all the above but cannot seem to stop this from happening. Last edited on 4 Oct 2014 10:31 by DaveJ61 posted: 4 Oct 2014 11:19 from: Martin Wynne Hi Dave, I think you must have pressed INSERT/ store and background at some stage. So long as you keep using functions which contain the word "make" there is no need to do that. Here is a bit of Jing video showing that I didn't do any storing myself while using the "make" functions: It may take a few seconds to load. If you can't see it, click: http://screencast.com/t /aY3laFN6IEdP If you have stored the first template, start the sequence with delete to the control. You can then continue using "make" without creating any duplicates. regards, Martin. posted: 4 Oct 2014 13:09 from: DaveJ61 Aha, that makes sense. Thanks Martin. I'll give this a try a little ...
... 7 you can't even get the underlines to show by pressing ALT. But they do still work. I can't believe that Windows 95 was actually quicker to use. So in due course I will add the extra letters to all buttons and menu items everywhere. It seems crazy to have such a useful feature fully working, but no-one can use it because you can't see which letter to press. regards, Martin. posted: 19 May 2011 15:10 from: Martin Wynne A few more shortcut changes which I didn't mention earlier: INSERT key is now store& background, i.e. it duplicates the existing CTRL+ V shortcut (which remains). There is also a top tool-button for this (double down-arrows). DELETE key is now do> snap to zero (invalidate) menu item, i.e. the same as clicking the red Z tool-button. This is a toggle -- pressing it again undeletes. This allows beginners to "get rid of" the control template, which was something frequently ...
110. flat bottom rail
... ties, then the rail template lays over the top. I am still working on how to hold the rail whilst it gets spiked. I may have to find some system of gluing them to the ties and then spiking after removing the rail jig. Thanks again Regards Dave posted: 23 May 2008 13:31 from: Andy Reichert dwhellum wrote: Your system is very interesting, however I am not using tie plates but just spiking directly to the ties. Your prototype may be one of the very few NG lines that didn't use tie plates at all. The very common US modeling idea of just spiking track, is a considerable compromise, based on reducing work, that was invented half a century ago, and stuck, due to no-one questioning why real track looks so different. Just about all US modeling magazines consider "track" merely an unnoticed means for steering toy trains out of the box, that must be constructed with the least possible delay and effort. They sell more advertising that way. I'm more of a stickler for ...
... and with situations where you need two templates "selected" -- as for example the make transition function, and the make diamond-crossing at intersection function, and others. regards, Martin. posted: 3 Aug 2012 21:03 from: Robert Preston I agree with Howard about the control template. If the template looks like a background template, you know it has been stored. If it looks like the control template I, at least, can often not remember if I stored it or not. If I didn't, I will lose it if I select another template as the control. If I did store it, but am not sure and do another store and background, I end up with excess templates. Incidentally, given the demand for key shortcuts, is there a reason for having two keys (Ins and Ctrl-V) do the same job? Robert posted: 3 Aug 2012 21:06 from: JFS Are you sure it was that feature which people hated? I confess I did not look closely enough to ...
... 22 Nov 2008 16:48 from: Raymond Martin, That was very instructive and I learned a few things, like F5 for the future. Thanks Raymond posted: 22 Nov 2008 19:23 from: David Higgs Martin, An excellant starter tutorial. All I need now is a scan of BR(W )Moretonhampstead and I will be occupied for the forthcoming holidays! Regards, David posted: 24 Nov 2008 01:26 from: Nigel Brown Hi Martin Spot on. Very nice! Just one suggestion. You didn't actually cover the sector plate bit. Now there could be some interest in seeing how you did that. However, a simple run round loop is more common, and indeed is a very common requirement. I suspect most beginners will pause when they reach this stage and think "how do I actually do that?". How about a Part II video covering it? cheers Nigel posted: 24 Nov 2008 03:44 from: Alan Turner Nigel Brown wrote: You didn't actually cover the sector plate bit. I ...
... you shouldn't need to do any actual timber shoving just to use a custom plain-track setting in any template. regards, Martin. posted: 27 Jul 2012 15:22 from: Alan McMillan Hi Martin, Thanks for the information. I may be missing something but when I went through your instructions, nothing seemingly happened at all. I created a new template and then inserted a turnout into it. I then used F3 and F4 to extend it and the plain track parts had the correct sleeper spacings but the turnout didn't. It also didn't remember to omit the rail joints which had to be removed by using the Rail Joint Marks menu item afterwards. I've attached the BOX file in case it helps. Regards Alan Attachment: attach_1476_2034_gotthard_ramp_201 2_07_27_1521_04.box 283 posted: 27 Jul 2012 15:25 from: Martin Wynne Hi Alan, Can you clarify what you are trying to do? I thought you were asking about the plain track settings? regards, Martin. posted: 27 Jul 2012 15:33 from: Martin Wynne p.s. Alan, I ...
114. tandem aids
... thick ones. regards, Godders. posted: 17 Dec 2017 21:03 from: Richard Spratt I agree with Godfrey, a couple of good videos showing the main types of tandem would be better than an outline tandem function. posted: 17 Dec 2017 22:50 from: Phil O Hi Martin. I'm with the above, video tutorials are what helped me to get a grip of Templot, when I started, the old step by step written tutorials were a lot harder to grasp what was going, because you didn't know if you had really done the job properly. Seeing what was supposed to happen made it a lot easier to grasp. Once the beginner has grasped the basics from the videos, it's not a huge next step to producing your own custom templates and has been said before by me and others Templot is a steep learning curve and most seem to want to jump into tandem turnouts before they have even mastered plain track and ordinary left and right hand turnouts. Cheers Phil Last edited on 17 Dec 2017 22:51 by ...
115. Changes in 219b
... least none intended. If nothing seems to happen when you delete a template, the most likely reason is that you have revealed one or more duplicate templates. Just keep clicking on them and deleting them until they have all gone. To delete an unwanted template, click on it, and then click delete on its menu, or press D on the keyboard. If you have found a bug, please report the exact click sequence recipe to reproduce it. How are you trying to delete templates, and what happens now which didn't happen before? Thanks. cheers, Martin. posted: 16 Mar 2018 14:30 from: David Long Martin, If I were to start with a blank track pad and then load a new template, say a piece of plain track, then decide I didn't want it I would click 'store and background' then click on it and select 'delete' and it would go. On the new version the old template stays until you load another one and then it disappears. I have a track plan on the screen ...
... check and guard rails to be 2 different items. Check rails on inside of curves, through switch and crossing work and level crossings. Guard rails on bridges and viaducts, to guard against derailed vehicles going over the side. (Or at least minimalize if vehicles remain upright and at low speed). Kev Staddon Me too, but the VR W&W manuals clearly define everything as different sorts of "check rail". Mark posted: 4 Apr 2013 13:56 from: stadman Mark. OK, although I didn't realise at first it was Australian (VR) Each country etc to their own, am only really familiar with UK practices, 30+ years in the industry although not involved with track for the last 20. posted: 4 Apr 2013 14:22 from: Matt M. Hi Mark. The joys of the various colonies, then State Governments in Australia. The style of permanent-way and terminology varied depending on the system most favoured by the commissioner and his immediate underlings appointed to run it. On New South ...
... Nigel Brown Yep, now hooked on Meccano Mags! Tried the December 1938 issue and, apart from being astonished at the amount of stuff in it (think the post-war ones I knew were thinner), found a very useful description of the workings of Walschearts valve gear. Nigel Last edited on 11 Feb 2018 23:05 by Nigel Brown posted: 12 Feb 2018 00:19 from: Andrew Barrowman I still have my Bayco my brother's Bayco building set. There was also a Prestacon construction set, but it didn't last very long. It was a bit like Meccano but even more dangerous posted: 12 Feb 2018 00:35 from: Rob Manchester Andy, My first few Meccano set were the plastic variety. Can't remember how old I was but my dad didn't like the idea of the proper version- too dangerous. What I want to know is where did all my Scalextric go to? It seemed I got a new set each Christmas but I never had anything left from the previous sets- odd. My parents never got ...
... the scissors diamond (2.4 angle), but when working on the left half any mouse action creates a new copy and I end up with a vertical version of Clapham Junction (might be a Linux thing?). If you'd have a go I'd be grateful, there only so much language available here.... ;-) Cheers Richard Attachment: attach_1277_1266_Soddingham_v5_2.b ox 243 posted: 18 Dec 2011 22:39 from: Tony W Hi Richard. Yes you are right about the checkrail lengths. Are you sure you didn't alter them early on for some reason under the Real> Customise V-crossing> Wing and check rails as it is very easy to alter the wrong thing and then copy this wrong data onto subsquent templates without realising it? I have corrected them all anyway. I have sorted out your scissors, now all flat bottom by various dubious means, and it looks a lot better. All the best with your project. Incidentally just out of curiosity, which member of Hawkwind was it that was the train enthusiast? Tony ...
119. Point templates
... topic: 1267 Point templates posted: 8 Oct 2010 16:52 from: Nigel Osborne How do you construct a template for the following, scissor crossing, double slip and a three way.I've seen the video on how to construct a 3 way but it dosen't tell you how to wipe the sleepers from the centre of the point, this is an earlier than the later version I use. Also the screens and dropdown lists are differant. I didn't use computers at work, simply a computer can't lay bricks.Also computers weren't about when I was at school or when I started work.The only thing I know about computers is what I learnt my self and that's not very much. Nigel posted: 8 Oct 2010 21:05 from: Phil O Hi Nigel First it would help to know which version of Templot you are using as some versions have differernt approach to how to get at SHOVE TIMBERS which is where you add or remove sleepers or timbers plus other changes to them. I would not start on partial templates until you have mastered the more basic elements ...
... name (make sure you do this, or you might be inadvertently changing the sizes of an existing form). Enter the required paper size and margins. Click the Save Form button (don't just click OK). Click the Close button. The new form should then show up in the paper size list for any printers/PDF generators which can support that size of output. Which PDF generator are you using? regards, Martin. posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:43 from: Stephen Freeman Creating a custom size didn't solve anything. It's the same problem with all the PDF generators I've tried. Win2PDF (This was the only one to show the custom form size) PDF Printer Pilot PDF995 Page Manager PDF posted: 22 Mar 2011 13:07 from: Martin Wynne Borg-Rail wrote: Creating a custom size didn't solve anything. It's the same problem with all the PDF generators I've tried. Win2PDF (This was the only one to show the custom form size) PDF Printer Pilot PDF995 Page Manager PDF Hi Stephen, I've generated ...
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