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... /5ths the length of the middle road. It is usually better to have equal length roads, unless you intend to run specific trains from specific roads. On a straight fiddle yard you can easily do this by having all the turnouts on road 1 at the entrance end and be having all the turnouts on the last road at the exit end. Another way of doing it is to have the turnouts so that the entrance to each yard is through the same number of turnouts: dxf_re_import.png (Richard's attached DXF file re-imported into Templot. Added by Martin.) For your curved yard it's not so easy but a start can be made by putting all the turnouts in what is currently the longest road. Regards Richard Spratt Attachment: attach_125_228_Fiddle_yard_entranc e.dxf 409 posted: 10 Nov 2007 18:59 from: Gordon S Hi Richard, thanks for your comments. There is a couple of reasons why the storage roads are laid out as they are. The first being the fact that there is a bullustraded staircase at the bottom of the plan. The ...
102. sketchboard
... drawing options> element options... menu item, and then return to the sketchboard: 2_210317_300000000.png regards, Martin. posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:27 from: richard_t Many thanks! posted: 24 Dec 2011 15:39 from: LSWRArt Hi Martin, I seem to be slowly getting to grips with Templot, but am having problems in one area- how to relate the track to buildings. I have made the following work:- I drew the baseboards to fit the available space as a DXF file and imported these as a background.- I have drawn some track and platforms I have opened sketchboard and drawn a correctly scaled station building, signal box, etc., on this. Where I am stuck is that there does not seem any way to import these buildings on to the Templot workpad. At the moment the work-round I am using is to lay out some track on workpad. Look on sketchpad. If there is not enough room for the building, go back to the workpad>group>move the ...
... them to suggest exactly what might suit you best for HOm equivalent templates) If you're planning on hand-building your pointwork then surely you don't need to follow Peco's geometry. Sorry to answer your question with more questions, but as so often happens, to provide any useful guidance requires more information. Regards, Stuart posted: 14 Jul 2017 18:14 from: stuart1600 A follow-on from my earlier post.... It occurred to me that if replicating the Peco point is crucial for you, the most important feature is probably the V-crossing angle, so that your replacement turnout will align correctly with other tracks. If you go to template>V -crossing settings and select "other", then enter k10 this tells Templot to create a V-crossing with an angle of 10 degrees. Probably also appropriate to use an A switch; so what you should have now will be an A-5.67 turnout, and the info box tells me this has a turnout radius of 19.4". If, for whatever reason ...
104. Despair
... but I'm beginning to despair that I will ever get the time to do it. Advice on how I might answer this email gratefully received. Martin. posted: 18 Mar 2009 00:48 from: allanferguson allanferguson wrote: style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffee"I I'm sorry -- I don't know how I got that! Allan Ferguson posted: 18 Mar 2009 00:49 from: Jim Guthrie Martin, And maybe see if he can post a copy of the scan file being he is trying to import. I get the feeling that the problem might be down to a corrupt file. Jim. Last edited on 18 Mar 2009 00:50 by Jim Guthrie posted: 18 Mar 2009 00:52 from: John Preston The sender of the message has only given you his feelings. What he/she needs to do is give more detailed information about what they are trying to do, what file sizes etc they are working with and perhaps some information about their computer e.g. operating system, hard disk size etc. ...
105. Background images
... topic: 3099 Background images posted: 8 Oct 2017 11:55 from: Tim Lee I am working with a mac using crossover. The NLS maps facility is non functional... presumably because mac doesn't run the correct browser. I have my track plan background within a cad programme with the NLS 25" map imported as an image and re scaled to the correct size. I have exported this as a series of jpgs (2100mm x 900mm) at 1:76.2 scale.... so when imported into templot they should come in at the rights size to scale. The drag and drop function doesn't work. I can import direct from file and it comes in to the background. It won't allow me to rescale (haven't checked if I need to or not). It won't save the image. I am assuming that I am doing something wrong but can't find any advice which appears to match my symptoms. Tim posted: 8 Oct 2017 12:43 from: Tim Lee Not to worry.... I ...
106. 3D again?
... topic: 3578 3D again? posted: 14 Dec 2019 23:31 from: Martin Wynne A rainy day, so I spent an hour or two staring out of the window and pondering. On the West Midlands Metro in Birmingham, trams have just this month started running on the extension from New Street to the Town Hall. For that section they run on battery power, to avoid the need for overhead wires between civic buildings and important architectural heritage: Trams are likewise running on battery power in many other places around the world. Now if a full-size tram can run on LiPo battery power, not to mention electric cars, and even milk floats (remember them) -- for a model train it ought to be dead easy, surely? Which means in turn that quite soon model trains will no longer need metal rails. You can guess where this is going, and Andy got there a long time before me: topic 2734- message 23411 2983_181646_300000000.jpg My experiments with 3D printing are stalled because of the difficulty of finding consistent ...
... sincerely hope the instructions will be of help to others, that's the reason for publishing. All the best, Brain Nicholls. posted: 20 Apr 2011 11:34 from: richard_t Hi I've had a chance to look through this. I think I've found a mistake, which came from me. In 7.0006, it's suggested to do action/F5 sizing optins/length locked. I actually meant to say (when in sizing mouse action), right click and select "lock switch". I'm not that sure it's important anyhow, as the peg is on the FP and we don't really care what happens to the switch. Around step 10, you might need 2 templates here, as the check rails (at the vee end) from half diamond might overlap those from the vee set. I've had this a couple of times. I *think* also this template should have the diagonal-road check rails, rather than the main-road. It's all to do with what it's checking. But as I've said before, we'd ...
108. Cutting Rail
... .. no.... no...oh well. All I say is this: My budget allows for one engine every 2 years or so, I hate sound, and you couldn't see lights on the real thing (early 80's) in daylight, and DCC costs as much as a (small) engine. Plus I tend to operate from the Signalmans perspective rather that the drivers. So it comes down to cost vs. complexity of wiring for me- and I still haven't decided which is more important. Cheers Richard posted: 21 Feb 2008 16:37 from: Brian Lewis BeamEnds wrote All I say is this: My budget allows for one engine every 2 years or so, I hate sound, and you couldn't see lights on the real thing (early 80's) in daylight, and DCC costs as much as a (small) engine. Plus I tend to operate from the Signalmans perspective rather that the drivers. So it comes down to cost vs. complexity of wiring for me- and I still haven't ...
109. Newcastle Diamonds
... 1882. Hadfield's steel was unique in that it combined high toughness and ductility with high work-hardening capacity and, usually, good resistance to wear. Consequently, it rapidly gained acceptance as a very useful engineering material. Hadfield's austenitic manganese steel is still used extensively, with minor modifications in composition and heat treatment, primarily in the fields of earthmoving, mining, quarrying, oil well drilling, steelmaking, railroading, dredging, lumbering, and in the manufacture of cement and clay products" ..... "Another important use is in railway trackwork at frogs, switches, and crossings, where wheel impacts at intersections are especially severe." Lots about Castle Jct renewal in Manganese steel in 1912 in the late Andrew Dow's magnus opus on railway track: "The Railway: British Track Since 1804" Search on: newcastle manganese steel for railway trackwork Yields http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kmBtBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=newcastle+ manganese+ steel+ for+ railway+ trackwork&source= ...
... Hi Alberta, To add it to your plan you use the add from file function. The tandem turnout is comprised of several partial templates, so you need to set it up as a group of templates in order to keep it all together in one piece. You can change an option on the storage box so that it is added as a group automatically. To join a group of templates onto one of your existing templates you link the group to the notch, so that the group follows movement of the notch. It's important to cancel the linking when you have got the group where you want it. I have made a scruffy bit of Jing video, showing the tandem being added to your track plan. I used a couple of tricks in the video -- you can use F7 snapping as a quick way to get the notch on a free end of a background template; and then use the cycle notch function to move it back there after linking: Ask again if it's not clear. regards, Martin. posted: 23 Jan 2009 ...
... topic: 911 3-throw turnout for Richard Lambert posted: 26 Jul 2009 17:29 from: Alan McMillan IMPORTANT NOTE- 3-WAY TURNOUTS This topic is about three-throw turnouts. 99% of 3-way turnouts are not three-throw turnouts. They are tandem turnouts. Three-throw turnouts are tricky to build and have very limited prototype applications. If you have arrived at this topic looking for information about 3-way turnouts, please refer instead to tandem turnouts. Click here to search for the relevant topics: tandem turnouts____ Hi Richard Hope this is what you were looking for. Please let me know if it needs any adjustment. Regards Alan McMillan Attachment: attach_598_911_LMS_Tandem_for_R_La mbert.box 591 posted: 26 Jul 2009 18:54 from: Richard Lambert Hi Alan Many thanks indeed. That looks to be exactly what I want. I shall have to print it out and try it in place to confirm. I will report back. Regards Richard posted: 26 Jul 2009 20:58 from: Richard ...
112. Another one lost
... when I first installed AutoCAD, and like Nigel, I also put it to one side after some frustrating attempts to draw something, but a year later, the inevitable happened, and was forced to knuckle down and learn to use it, now I would never be without it and use it every day, as I do with Templot. If I may be so bold Martin, my advice to you is" grow a thicker skin and ignore such comments from people that do not even try, and move on" Most important, keep up the brilliant work, you have the support of Templot Club members, of that I am sure. All the best. Brian Nicholls. posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:57 from: pointo1d I whole-heartedly concur with Nigels' observations Personally, I started from a slightly different angle and having established the approximate track plan, attempted to get Templot to do what I'd like- only to realise that it wasn't quite what I thought I asked for- we had a (decidedly odd) name for ...
... topic: 3571 would you like a first look at Templot3? posted: 10 Dec 2019 11:41 from: Martin Wynne There has been a recent flurry of activity around Templot3, the open-source version of Templot. If you would like to see what that is all about, there is a new option in Templot2 version 225d: 2_100619_180000000.png If you click it, your running version of Templot2 will minimize to the taskbar, and Templot3 will open in its place. If you are in the middle of some important work, it would be a good idea to save it first. This is not a finished version of Templot3, there is still a lot of work in progress. But it is fully functional and usable apart from the missing functions -- no sketchboard, no PDF exports, and a few others. Don't get confused -- try using a different trackpad colour scheme from the one in Templot2. Notice too that the yellow hard-hat icon is green for Templot3. Close it when you have seen enough, and restore ...
114. Omagh GNRi Good Yard
... topic: 3078 Omagh GNRi Good Yard posted: 12 Sep 2017 23:49 from: Tony McGartland Attached is an A3 scan of the GNRi Goods Yard in Omagh. The drawings are the engineers drawings and I got these from a retired GNRi foreman at the Dundalk works. Scale is 1":40' or 1:500 metric (approx). Can this type of thing be imported into Templet and used to generate an accurate 21mm track layout? Attachment: attach_2491_3078_Img010-Add1.jpg 369 Last edited on 12 Sep 2017 23:52 by Tony McGartland posted: 13 Sep 2017 00:04 from: Martin Wynne Tony McGartland wrote: Attached is an A3 scan of the GNRi Goods Yard in Omagh. The drawings are the engineers drawings and I got these from a retired GNRi foreman at the Dundalk works. Scale is 1":40' or 1:500 metric (approx). Can this type of thing be imported into Templet and used to generate an accurate 21mm track layout? Hi Tony, Welcome to Templot Club. Yes, ...
... 25 Jan 2010 14:18 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: Martin, having seen your videos with Jing, I can see numerous applications and have signed up for a full version. I've been able to upload links no problem and have added an embed video button to generate the embed code. Is there an easy way to embed video once recorded. I have tried and can see it at the draft post stage, but just get a black box if I try to post an embedded video. Hi Gordon, Important -- If you have the full version of Jing you must use the SWF option when recording and not the MP4 version which you used in your posted embed code. You can't embed MP4 files here. (The free version of Jing has the SWF option only.) You can't post the full SWF embed code -- the software on here (and on YMR) already supplies most of it. All you need to do is to insert the source URL for the Flash file( .swf file). You ...
... topic: 2660 Up-to-date Microsoft Word anyone? posted: 27 Mar 2015 18:43 from: Martin Wynne Moving back into the the positive quadrant, I have been making some improvements to the editor for formatted text blocks on the sketchboard: 2_271324_030000000.png I need to confirm that RTF imports from Microsoft Word are still working. My copy of Word is 14 years old, and as I very rarely use it I'm not planning to buy an upgrade. Knowing the way Microsoft change file formats while no-one is looking, I need a test RTF file created with the latest version of Word. If anyone has an up-to-date version of Word, I would be grateful if you could create a small test file and save it in RTF format (not DOC). It needs just a few words of text in different colours and fonts, different paragraph background colours and indents, a small table, a couple of small images or icons, etc. You can attach RTF files here. The simplified editor in Templot ...
... work. Many thanks Peter posted: 1 Nov 2019 22:03 from: Matt M. HI Martin, I would like to keep getting the emails. I won't say that I am fully understanding all the details but it is a fascinating thread. With thanks, Matt M. posted: 2 Nov 2019 01:55 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Yes, include me please. Can't say I understand what the heck is going on most of the time but I don't want to be thinking I have missed something important Rob posted: 2 Nov 2019 09:30 from: Godfrey Earnshaw Morning Martin, Please to be kept viewing. Godders posted: 2 Nov 2019 11:33 from: Pierre Please leave it visible to me. Best regards, Pierre posted: 2 Nov 2019 16:48 from: Dave Phillips Martin, Please keep me in the loop also. Thank you! Dave posted: 2 Nov 2019 17:05 from: pointo1d Hiya Martin, It's been a while, but as it's most definitely of interest, pls ...
... topic: 715 Ground frame connections -- rodding compensators posted: 28 Jan 2009 09:13 from: Martin Wynne Something not often photographed -- rodding compensators. These are placed in runs of point rodding to convert a pull action into a push action. It's important that the total length of a rod connection in "pull" should be equal to the length in "push". This cancels out any movement at the far end caused by thermal expansion along the way. Often pulls can be converted to pushes where the rodding passes through angle cranks to cross under the rails, and this determines the exact location of such a side swap. Where equality can't be achieved that way, compensators such as these are inserted in the rodding run: 2-throwrods.jpg© Neil Fraser Image linked from an interesting page of switch details and detection gear at a ground frame -- click the small images: Side-tracked. Martin. posted: 28 Jan 2009 09:33 from: Martin Wynne I wrote: It's important that the total length of ...
... another attempt at a curved version given the space now available following building work.... 1763_041742_490000000.jpg Attachment: attach_819_1010_new_curved_version .box 605 Last edited on 4 Jul 2010 22:46 by Richard_Jones posted: 5 Jul 2010 11:32 from: JFS Richard, I think it looks a lot better- but it rather appears from the image that at the Lavant end you would be looking at it through a rather narrow opening. For me, this was the more interesting end of the station and a good view of it would be important. Also, where do you envisage the normal viewing position? From the outside of the curve, the station was largely hidden by tall trees as I recall, (though they would have perhaps been a lot less tall in LBSC days!)whereas from the inside of the curve you would be looking down from the top of West Dean hill... Best Regards, Howard. posted: 5 Jul 2010 19:35 from: Richard_Jones Hi Howard, many thanks for your comments- I would envisage the normal ...
... probably launch Templot only once in an evening, and many of the messages can be dismissed for the rest of the session after appearing once. The problem is that Templot is a recreational program. It's not like business software which you use every day. You might go 3 months without using Templot, and then need it to produce some templates. After that time it's very easy to forget how things work, which settings you have changed, and which messages you have dismissed. Please don't compare Templot with programs where productivity is important. Templot is for recreation and hobby use. There isn't a deadline to meet and no need to rush. What's a few extra clicks when most of your time in Templot is spent pondering the screen, referring to books and drawings, doodling on the back of an envelope, chewing the end of your pencil, and making another coffee? regards, Martin. posted: 16 Mar 2008 23:49 from: Martin Wynne Brian Lewis wrote: All these emails criticizing his 'bloatware' front end. Tut tut. Hi ...
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