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121. From the archives
... topics from the Yahoo archives, and perhaps bring them up to date with changes in the latest versions of Templot. But this bit of Templot history, first posted here on May 7th 2002, goes back a lot further: WEST MERCIAN EM GROUP NEWSLETTER, SEP 1980" Our last meeting, held at Broadwas Village Hall on 7th Sep 1980, was one of the liveliest we have had. Ten members were present and among matters discussed were.... [snipped]........A most interesting development was then described by Martin Wynne. Neville Fairbairn had asked Martin for help in setting out a turnout from a curved road. From this request Martin had gone on to devise a system for enabling any turnout to be drawn out on 1mm graph paper by even the most inexperienced. Given the radius of the main line, the crossing angle and switch type, Martin can supply the X and Y co-ordinates of the rail running face at every chair position. From this data it is easy to construct a turnout template ...
... turnout size. Otherwise the template length remains fixed and may not be long enough to contain the entire turnout. There is no need to lock switch with F9, which changes the V-crossing angle only. regards, Martin. posted: 26 Aug 2011 19:00 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Martin, Many thanks for the quick response. Once I've had a cup of tea, I will try as you suggest. I now realise, that I should have read more carefully, your earlier log notes on the TDV development. I must take the time out to cobble up a crib sheet of all the key facilities now incorporated in the TDV for quick reference purposes. Apologies for taking you away from your coding. All the best, Brian Nicholls. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Development doings- archive> Turnout Adjustment Problem using F5 about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click ...
... line, or a 2 road shed. The other end would have a small signal box at the end of the head shunt (which is there just to give additional operational interest I have uploaded the latest revamped version, it may be better to have a switched diamond rather than a slip, also I have not made the track centres wide enough between the engine shed and main running line. At worst hopefully it will be a nice cameo to use to photograph stock once buildings and scenery are added, at best it can develop into a layout Thoughts and suggestions are most welcome. Attachment: attach_2248_2794_Bodmin_general.bo x 257 posted: 20 Mar 2016 20:23 from: Nigel Brown Hi Hayfield This may not be strictly relevant, but my current railroom is 10'3" x 8'6", not too different from your proposed shed. It houses a workbench and an L shaped 3mm layout (just, I'd half built the layout before deciding that's where it was going to go). However, just out of interest I decided to see if I could fit a ...
... move through an adjacent road... Clearly this depends on the visibility of signals- so it's much better with Running Signals (larger and more prominent) than with Non-Running (shunt) signals. This is also why shunt movements make more use of audible warnings when moving about- i.e. they whistle or honk). This also means that Colour Light and Position Light signals are useless from this point of view- they cannot be read from the back... Which is why modern practice has had to develop a more cautious approach. Talking of greater caution if/when anyone has to work in the 6ft area between platforms- it is simply possible- and wise- to tell the Signalman/Signaller and arrange for the work to be protected by the Fixed Signals. Doing this has become increasingly common. It can be that a Signalman will tell whoever wants to work that they need (will have to) wait until a movement has been completed. Alternatively a movement may be held on a signal until any (urgent) ...
... a Mac using a Mozilla Browser or on a windows PC using Google Chrome.) Neil posted: 19 Jun 2015 13:36 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: It's nice to see you doing this because some much bigger outfits don't bother, with the result that their pages are just unusable without a magnifying glass! Thanks Paul. No credit to me -- I'm just helping with the beta testing for our friends at EC Software. In fact Tim has a much more fully-fledged HTML5-based system under development, which is lightning fast to load pages: 2_190832_170000000.png Not yet working enough to post a link. Of course none of this yet contains any significant content, it is still mostly empty pages. I have been waiting for these developments to become available before doing much more actual work on the Companion. regards, Martin. posted: 19 Jun 2015 13:40 from: Martin Wynne NeilD wrote: BUT: when I tried to search, whilst it displayed search results without any problems and displayed the search that I had ...
126. Forum emails
... 18:37 and> got it back at 20:43. Please sort it out Martin. Steady on Richard. As I explained twice, if you now post or reply to messages via email, I am for the present manually entering them on the new forums. I explained that that would result in delay, and that if you want your messages to appear instantly you should post them on the forum web site instead. I am intending to provide an automated means of posting via email, but that involves some program development which will take time, and distract me from more important matters on Templot itself. I would much prefer that everyone use the forum web site to post messages. There is a reply link in all the messages received by email. But if email is your only option, I will ensure that your message gets posted -- but as I say, it may be subject to delay. regards, Martin. posted: 22 May 2007 03:45 from: Peter Ayre Martin, If a reply to a thread is ...
... Jim Guthrie Peter Ayre wrote: BTuckey wrote: Thanks for the information regarding David Jenkinson's book. I would be most grateful for the scans as my local, French, library is unlikely to have the book! Brian, There are some cheap copies of the book in Amazon( .co.uk) market place at £1.89 and with postage to France of £3.75 it would be only £5.64. Just an idea. Brian, If you can get the book at that price then that might be best since David Jenkinson does develop the theme of the design through several chapters in the book, with various different versions on the theme, one of which might suit you better than his final plan. So giving you a scan of one of the plans might miss the mark :-) I still haven't found my copy- most annoying :-) Jim. posted: 24 Oct 2007 17:00 from: BTuckey richard_t wrote: If you've got access to some Model Railway Journal's, David Jenkinson describes the planning behind his "Last Great Project" ...
... 100% correct as the ratio of the gauge may not convert absolutely. Depending on the version of Templot you are using you need to 'group select' all the templates and go to the gauge/scale selector and choose the new combination from the list. Then click on 'Convert Group'. You may get a warning message about the conversion. HTH Rob posted: 1 Dec 2011 15:03 from: Mark Pelham Hi Rob, Thanks for your reply! I have just done the conversion, my first task in the development version. I'll have a closer look at all the templates later but from a brief scan it seems to have been successful. I honestly thought I was going to have to start again! Many thanks, Mark posted: 1 Dec 2011 18:15 from: Jim Guthrie Mark Pelham wrote: I have just done the conversion, my first task in the development version. I'll have a closer look at all the templates later but from a brief scan it seems to have been successful. Mark, You will probably find ...
129. Preferences
... a simple task from the outside is quite a complex one internally. Because it is purely a cosmetic/friendly change (i.e. Templot works perfectly well with the default settings, and they can be changed each time if it's essential) it has tended to get pushed down the list below the need for more track functionality and Help material. The demand for the grid settings to be saved was so great that I have now included them in the .box file, which is not the best place for them. I need to develop an extensible profiling option for all the hundreds of different settings in Templot, but it's not a 2-minute job. When I originally developed Templot it was purely for my own use, so many of the colours, fonts, etc., were simply hard-coded in as those that suited me. So at present you can change almost everything in Templot, but on start-up it reverts to the default hard-coded settings. Some time ago I asked group members for a shortlist of settings for a ...
... the signal on the platform. How does the control wire rod reach it from the signal box? Perhaps the mystery object is something related to that. Rodding/wire conduit to reach it through the platform somehow? The signal seems to have a linkage into the platform at its base. Assuming it doesn't run along the surface there must be some way of routing it under the platform surface. In later pictures the signal has gone so it could explain the apparent unused/unconnected status of the object. I think this is developing into a mystery on par with the Rossetta stone. Regards. Trevor. posted: 17 Nov 2014 16:28 from: DerekStuart Trevor, if you look at the right hand road in the last photo', the signal box is just to the right of the dog leg. The rodding comes down the right side out of shot, before crossing the 3 roads to the area in question and then this one wire for the starter comes back along the platform edge. It certainly would be behind that rail. It ...
... . -- Regards Brian Lewis Carrs- C+ L Finescale http://www.finescale.org.uk Tel:+ 44 1 275 852 027 Fax:+ 44 1 275 810 555 posted: 6 Jul 2007 20:19 from: Bernard C Hi Brian You could consider a laptop/notebook using Microsoft Windows XP Pro. Peripherals like printer, additional monitor, scanner, mouse, can be connected as required. Vista Basic is considered a rip-off; Home Premium is media rich; Business, if required; Ultimate for the developer. However, the cost at the moment is rather high and about double the cost found in the USA. Drives tend to be in the range 60 to 160Gb depending on your data storage needs; processor from 1.66MHz to 2.0+ MHz (cost is the consideration here at the high end of these ranges). Memory (RAM): 512Mb; 1Gb or 2Gb supplied with room for expansion: maximum memory capacities seem to be 1 or 3 or 4Gb respectively. Backup could use DVD or an external hard drive. ...
... would raise purely Wine issue with you. I follow your thinking, but I cannot but help wondering if this is change for change's sake: as an established user, I prefer to find menu items more or less where they were in the previous version. What you have done is also different to every WIMP system I have used, so I and not sure it is easier. If I may (tongue firmly in cheek) paraphrase, I never understand this type of change. When something works, why do designers/developers feel the need to alter things? On the second point, it is not a problem to make two extra clicks, but I think you would appreciate the feedback- what happens now is I click on "continue" without even reading the dialog box, so it is an entirely superfluous two clicks. But you are right, I will click the mouse many hundreds of times in a session: I am not sure all of those clicks are necessary either. But you seem happy with Templot as it is, and ...
... topic: 1666 Questions about using MS and TS and perceived issue with transition curves. posted: 26 Oct 2011 14:43 from: gsmorris I asked the following in an email relating to anew lock code and Martin rightly asked me to post such questions and points in Templot Club in future. So although I have the answers I need I think it is useful to post the questions and answers up. As they say- ask as others may well have the same issues! HI Martin I have been using the development version a lot recently mostly while traveling and I have come across two come across a few minor things I have found are not unique to the development version. Probably I have not looked deeply into your notes. One:- being the idiosyncratic but useful undo function!! It always seems to go back further than I anticipated. And then I forget which template I am on and end up wiping it from the background. My problem mostly and can live with it as a couple of click in storage box gets you back ...
... :59 from: Martin Wynne Hi Bill, A further change I think you need to make is to change the V-crossing on the first LH turnout (49) to curviform pattern. Otherwise you have an unsightly reverse curve in the vee splice rail. Put the peg on CTRL-0 first. You can use make branch track to link it back in to existing tracks. Very often when the curving is negative like this a change to curviform is needed. To complete the tandem may I suggest you join the development group? The TDV includes the option of using a partial gaunt turnout for the middle V-crossing, which is much easier to adjust. Some notes about doing that are here: message 9841 regards, Martin. posted: 18 Oct 2011 23:27 from: Bill_Lobb Tony W wrote: Hi Bill. Interesting project. I don't think there would be too many problems building it although the radius of the second turnout road seems rather sharp to me. Good luck with your project. Tony. Thank you for this ...
135. Online or offline
... I may at some future time provide an option to pay to override the internet check. Or a paid-for alternative Templot3 version. But NOT until I have completely rewritten the Templot Companion and the tutorials. I'm not prepared to accept a payment for Templot until it doesn't create a support obligation. When the Templot Companion is up to date I can simply say RTFM and leave it at that. At present I can't do that because the docs are in an unholy mess. My ultimate aim in all this is to enjoy developing the Templot program WITHOUT having to support it. At present when making changes the support implications are always uppermost in my mind. regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Development doings- archive> Online or offline 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 ...
... : 2796 London Transport (LTE/LTB) track posted: 27 Nov 2015 23:07 from: 4railsman I've just started work on a 4mm "OO" scale layout in order to take advantage of the recently released models of the LT Museums new "S -stock" as well as the Heljan Metropolitan Bo-Bo locos. Despite exhaustive searching, there doesn't seem to be any London Transport/London Underground Templates with their exclusive 4-rail track layout. Is anyone currently working on this, or has anyone already developed their own templates with this configuration that they can share? posted: 27 Nov 2015 23:40 from: Martin Wynne 4railsman wrote: Despite exhaustive searching, there doesn't seem to be any London Transport/London Underground Templates with their exclusive 4-rail track layout. Is anyone currently working on this, or has anyone already developed their own templates with this configuration that they can share? Hi, Welcome to Templot Club. Templot has no direct support for conductor rails. However, for plain track you can improvise by ...
... . Also concrete sleepers damaged during a derailment were not recoverable for further use, unlike timber. The LSWR had used Pot sleepers during WW1 due to wood shortages. And the same thing happened during WW2 and the austerity measures post war which made timber very hard to get for the railways. With the exception of the LNER which experimentally trialled some on running lines, this type of sleeper was used for sidings were the lack of resilience wasn't a problem. Lots of sidings were laid during the war. Andrew Dow goes into the development history of concrete sleepers in the UK along with the change to flat bottom rail in his book. Which will give you the drawing require and all the extra history for free... Really it is a worth while purchase. Glad to be of help. Matt M. posted: 7 Dec 2015 23:29 from: Tony W undefined undefined Hi Mike/ Matt. Below are a couple of pictures I took of some LNER pots that formed part of a short section of pot track in the goods relief on ...
138. TDV feedback
... site: Q. Is it just another CAD program? No, Templot isn't CAD. It's not a conventional drawing program and it doesn't use the Windows document-style interface. I'm normally very easy-going, but I do see the red mist when folks complain that Templot isn't what I never claimed it to be. There are many other layout planning programs available which do use the Windows Document Model, so if that is what you want the solution seems to be obvious. When I asked for help and feedback in developing TDV, I was expecting discussions about the implementation and geometry of irregular diamond-crossings; the use of vector metafile or bitmap trackplans on the sketchboard; the preferred dpi resolution for PDF exports; the best way of using partial gaunt turnouts in tandems; changes to the picture shape image format; the way F7 snapping is implemented in Quick mode; and a dozen similar matters. I value your suggestions and feedback, but I don't believe such changes are practical for me or would help to get TDV finished in the short ...
... the ladder without getting the basics right. One small Q if you don't mind. I omitted the timbers from turnout 1 and 3 and just used the 2nd turnout timbers (the patterns didn't match) and then found the 'shove timbers' feature that I've seen in various demo videos, but this caused the turnout 1 rails to be hidden. Any tips on what I've done/not done? If it's taxing on the grey matter to use Templot I hate to think what it must be like to programme it. In between developing Templot do you look for higs bosuns and dark matter? Or merely content yourself with finding out the answer to life, the universe and everything? (and in case that doesn't come across in the way intended- I take my hat off to you indeed!) Many thanks again. Derek Last edited on 20 Oct 2014 22:43 by DerekStuart posted: 20 Oct 2014 22:54 from: Martin Wynne DerekStuart wrote: One small Q if you don't mind. I omitted the timbers from turnout 1 and 3 ...
... the live session I did a few weeks ago. Those don't have any significant interactive content. So they could be downloaded or streamed as ordinary MP4 files on any device. But without interactive content I don't know how to link them back to the relevant pages of the Companion, to replace the detailed text explanations as in the interactive videos. I'm in two minds about the best way forward. What I do know is that supporting Templot is a major pain compared with the enjoyment I get from working on the program code and developing new features. cheers, Martin. posted: 25 Oct 2020 00:42 from: Rob Manchester Martin Wynne wrote: I'm in two minds about the best way forward. What I do know is that supporting Templot is a major pain compared with the enjoyment I get from working on the program code and developing new features. cheers, Martin. Hi Martin, Yes, I can understand the support issues Anyhow, problem solved relating to my original question so thank you. Rob Parts of Templot Club may not function unless ...
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