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... which naturally makes things difficult. It does not occur on more than 1 in 4 export to .pdf. It occurs before the actual save (when Templot is generating the .pdf file??), ie when Templot prompts the user whether they wish to export each individual sheet, eg export a/1, export a/2, etc. If its relevant, the error(s) occurred when I exported with a non standard scaling factor of 8%, chosen purely to fit the plan on a single sheet of A4 whilst showing the maximum amount of detail. On reading Kaspersky's 'more details' section there is a suggestion that Templot may be trying to access a problematic area of memory. This may explain why Kaspersky is happy with Templot 99.9% of the time and only objects when I try to execute one specific command. I always update Kaspersky to the latest definition file each time I turn on the computer before I use any application. I can simply ignore the message, although the Kaspersky warning window remains on the screen until I go ...
... topic: 2996 C&L to have new ownership posted: 4 Mar 2017 14:04 from: Martin Wynne Press release from C&L: http://www.finescale.org.uk The business would seem to be returning to its roots as a cottage industry supplying track builders. The 15.2mm 4-SF/ 00-SF/ 00-BF check gauges are currently showing in stock, which is not always the case. If you are intending to build in 00, now might be a good time to order them, rather than wait until the business changes are under way. See: http://www.finescale.org.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=346_375_376&product_id=8776 Martin. posted: 4 Mar 2017 21:56 from: madscientist very very unclear, whats to happen, bad day for track builders Last edited on 4 Mar 2017 21:57 by madscientist posted: 4 Mar 2017 22:21 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: very very unclear, whats to happen, bad day for track builders Hi ...
... . 2_240858_160000000.png Just a few clicks, and the £194* is still in your pocket. But well done for a clever idea, and no doubt they will sell a few to those for whom computers are against their religion. regards, Martin. *£ 1 for some glue to stick the template down. posted: 24 Sep 2017 14:41 from: Martin Wynne... on the other hand, a bigger home-made wooden version for large-scale garden railways might be very handy. Sticking down A4 sheets is hardly practical when there is an apple tree in the way, and it looks like rain. Martin. posted: 24 Sep 2017 15:44 from: Roger Henry A clever looking gadget, but Templot is The Way. But if you are without your trusty PC, what is wrong with a simple trammel? posted: 24 Sep 2017 16:00 from: Martin Wynne Roger Henry wrote: A clever looking gadget, but Templot is The Way. But if you are without your trusty PC, what ...
... 19:06 from: Martin Wynne Hi Steve, Click the background> add a background image> menu items. See the notes which come up. Ask again if anything is unclear. regards, Martin. posted: 28 Dec 2017 11:42 from: Steve Evans Thanks Martin, I managed to get my image into Templot but am now having difficulties with trying to lay a piece of track onto the plan. When I got into template quickset and select a piece of plain track, my scanned plan goes out of focus and a piece of track appears in the centre of the screen much larger than the background image. On the original Templot, once the background shape had been saved, you could go to quickset, select a piece of track and then move it into position after pressing F7. This doesn't seem to work in Templot 2. Am I missing something? Thanks, Steve posted: 28 Dec 2017 12:02 from: Martin Wynne Steve Evans wrote: On the original Templot, once the background shape had been saved, ...
145. Evercreech Junction
... topic: 3205 Evercreech Junction posted: 4 Feb 2018 01:12 from: John Palmer Following on from my Radstock effort, here's Evercreech Junction, focus of so much action on the S&D, and a station that has held me fascinated from childhood. I'm afraid this attempt is, in places, a bit rough and ready, but I've resolved most of the timbering conflicts and made it a reasonable fit on the 25" Ordnance plan. I have not uploaded a copy of that plan because (a) it's a bit rough and ready on the NLS site, with a bit of misalignment between the map tiles at the south end, and (b) the plan dates from about 1903, at which time neither the down yard nor the turntable and locomotive servicing facilities in the fork of the junction had yet been fully developed. Consequently I have had to do a fair amount of plotting that involves assumptions about the exact positions of these facilities as finally developed. Broadly the upload represents the layout as it existed in BR days, ...
... to stop the baseboards twisting. Without them there is little resistance to such forces. 2151_150754_590000000.jpg 2151_150751_480000000.jpg As in the above examples, it is possible to vary where the diagonals go depending on where things are above board as from the Templot plan one can see where the turnout operating units will go and avoid these areas as much as possible. These are all fiddle yard boards. The scenic ones will be done differently. To generate a cutting list for each curved board, I print out each board scaled to fit one sheet of A4 paper as centre lines only. The lengths of the various members are worked out from the template lengths displayed in the information panel (when selected as control) or press the F4 key to display it. One just has to remember to allow for the thickness of the material in the right places. I write the full length outside the line and the required length inside whether different or not. The angles for the blocks on the curved boards are calculated by selecting the particular template centre line and moving the Peg to one ...
... as requested but you would get much better running, especially through the K-crossings, if you changed to 0-MF 31.5mm gauge. Excellent roller gauges are available from Debs of this parish. If you decide to change, do not use this template, ask me to create one for 0-MF. Diamonds and slips must be built on a template accurate to the gauge being used, because it changes the distance between the V-crossings. The PDF file attached below is for home printing on 5 sheets of A4 paper. Make sure you change to "no scaling, 100%" in your PDF reader program. You can check the accuracy by measuring the 150mm grid squares. Trim the pages to the red lines to fit them together. For best results use paper thicker than ordinary office paper. 160gsm paper is good. Next I will post a single page version for printing at a digital copyshop. Make sure to tell them to use the "no scaling, 100%" setting. Tell them about 3 times to make ...
148. 00-SF templates
... -point 00-SF track gauge tools will give you gauge-widening where needed on sharp curves. Alternatively you can lay 16.5mm flexi-track to the same centre-lines, regarding it as pre-gauge-widened if you wish. If you want some of the templates to be exactly 16.5mm, it's easy. Design the layout in 00-SF first. Then select the relevant templates as a group, and click the gauge> other gauges... menu item. On the list dialog select 00-BF and then click the convert group button at the top. But I don't think this will really make much practical difference for tracklaying, as Robert mentioned. If you have purchased a C&L turnout kit, bear in mind that the track gauge tools supplied with it are for the DOGA-Fine standard, they are not suitable for 00-SF. To build 00-SF pointwork you should discard those gauge tools and obtain the 00-SF gauge tools from Brian Tulley. regards, Martin. posted: 1 ...
... You really ought to try Firefox, y'know posted: 25 Mar 2014 14:40 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: The Problem is that the cursor does not appear in the message box area, consequently, I cannot write any message reply. This problem also occurs (occurred?) occasionally with Firefox- not sure why. I haven't seen it for a little while though so maybe it's been fixed. You really ought to try Firefox, y'know Hi Paul, In Firefox the caret can't appear until the editor gets focus, and that can't happen until the page is fully loaded. If there is a hold-up in getting page elements from the server, it seems that you can't type anything. If you just wait until the roundel icon in the tab stops rotating, the caret should appear. Or if not press F5 to fetch the page again. I can't speak for IE though, as always it is a mystery. I have now swapped IE11 back to editor 1, waiting to see if Brian (or anyone else using ...
... topic: 922 Waterproof tough paper for printed templates posted: 12 Aug 2009 15:25 from: Martin Wynne This looks interesting: http://www.toughprint.com A tough waterproof paper substitute, available for both ink-jet and laser printers in A4 and A3 sizes. It would presumably eliminate the problem of shrinkage and distortion of multiple-page track templates from laser printers. It's popular with outdoor users for printing maps from the web. Has anyone tried it for track construction templates? regards, Martin. posted: 12 Aug 2009 18:22 from: Alan Turner But it's £160/ream! Alan posted: 12 Aug 2009 18:53 from: Martin Wynne Alan Turner wrote: But it's £160/ream! Hi Alan, £13.49 for 25 sheets: Inkjet: http://www.penroseoutdoors.co.uk/acatalog/Memory_Map_ToughPrint_Inkjet_Paper .html Laser: http://www.penroseoutdoors.co.uk/acatalog/Memory_Map_ToughPrint_Laser_Paper .html That's around 54p per sheet. 10 thou Plastikard is around 80p per sheet -- and you can't print on it! regards, Martin. ...
... The H&M solenoids are still in use! If they were still in production I might not have switched to stall motors of which I find the tortoise to be the best. The other stall motors and screw drives that I tried are either burnt out or relegated to operating signals and accessories while the other solenoids are all long gone. As far as hinged or flexible switch blades go it really does not make much difference as long as the blades are a reasonable length. At one time I had some short switches, A4( short A3 ?) in an industrial siding which gave me some trouble until I cut them to create a hinge but if you use B or longer blades you will have no trouble. I use hinged blades but that has more to do with the era that I model and maintaining electrical isolation of the frog than it does with blade operation. Bullhead rail tends to be more flexible than flat bottom but if the blade is long enough you will not have a problem with either. I use code 125 bullhead rail in ...
... it might be an idea to add some sort of "restore default" button so that if you need to help someone you can get them back to known settings. Cheers posted: 6 Mar 2009 11:09 from: Paul Boyd Hi Brian 1. Fast print. Clicking this prints the entire file using the default printer, or the printer I have allocated, the print tray, paper size and aspect and the print quality. Would you really want this for Templot? One click and out come millions of sheets of A4 posted: 6 Mar 2009 11:27 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: I'd also like the grid settings to be saved as a user preference rather than in each individual box file Hi Paul, Yes, that's where they should be. Putting them in the .box file was a short-term kludge. I understand the point about Scale/Gauge (being a fan of mixed gauge!) but it would be nice if Templot could start in a default gauge of choice- P4 in my case. If ...
153. Pug progress report
... , control panels and diagrams directly within Templot. Previously it was necessary to export a DXF file and do this sort of thing in a separate CAD program. Here's an example of what can be done in Templot Sketchbook: defynnog.png Here's a screenshot showing Templot Sketchbook in use: sketchbook_draft.png I have zoomed and resized it to match the underlying track plan on the pad. The yellow scales top and left show the actual printed page size. In this example the area is 260mm wide by 180mm high, i.e. an easy fit on A4 or US Letter paper in landscape format. The blue scales bottom and right show the actual model size, matching the pad scales. By comparing scales you can see that the track plan was output (in diagram mode) at 10% of full size. Note that the yellow vertical scale originates from top left, in the usual way for printed matter. Whereas the blue scale originates from bottom left in the usual engineering style (matching the grid on the pad). What, if anything, I could or should ...
154. Rolling sleepers
... pressed the number 4 key by mistake instead of F4. The number keys 1 to 9 are single-key alternatives to CTRL-F1 to CTRL-F9 respectively. See the single-key shortcuts on the chart: help> print F-key chart menu item. 4/ CTRL-F4 is the roll rails mouse action. The single-key alternative shortcuts make it possible to change mouse action quickly with one hand without removing the other hand from the mouse. But they aren't always available (if the keyboard has focus somewhere else), hence the need for the standard F-key shortcuts also. I've just knocked up a quick experimental and simple track plan involving just one turnout, a couple of feet or so of diverging rails, and a bit of approach track. Now the last sleeper next to the turnout on the approach track slightly overlaps the last sleeper of the turnout, so I thought this might be a good time to try out rolling sleepers to get the right sleepers with the right spacing at the rail joint with the ...
155. Winter 1963
... in 1947. (Senior moment). If I'd given the subject more thought, I'd have realised. A friend of mine is the leading light behind the very slow, painstaking restoration of 78018, at Darlington, the loco that got stuck. (We have a model of it running on Stainmore Summit). To get back to the first film and as for funky editing, the first impression might be of Barbados being fired. The footplate shot is of a wide firebox loco with a flap firebox door- probably an A4. The fireman is firing from the driver's side, probably to accommodate the cameraman. Martin L posted: 19 Apr 2009 03:11 from: Martin Wynne Jim Guthrie wrote: Someone earlier referred to the funky style of editing. I wouldn't have called it a style of editing- more like padding the film out to a longer length than the footage merited and they obviously chucked in a lot of material which wasn't filmed at the time- cut it quick to music and they won't notice Funky editing usually covers up a ...
... had managed to get PC World to withdraw the products so that they could sell their much more expensive products. As an aside, I now don't consider getting another Epson printer. I got a Stylus 1500 A2 printer some years ago to print out large plots. It would work in black only and had a relatively huge black cartridge somewhat larger than the palm of my hand which lasted me for literally years. I replaced it with a 1520 and found that that used cartridges which were no bigger than those used on their small A4 deskjets and you had to have both black and colour cartridges with ink in them to get the printer to work. If you don't use it regularly, when you switch it on it goes through the automatic head cleaning routine which probably uses more ink than your intended printing is going to use. I see that as an intentional design feature to screw me for more cartidges at higher cost. If I can afford it, I'll look at getting a larger format HP printer. My experience with other HP printers shows that I ...
... topic: 878 Printing for a layout diagram posted: 24 Jun 2009 13:59 from: Martin Wynne Andy G wrote (on RMweb): It does seem to be a bit of an issue to get a decent looking overall trackplan out of Templot, I know Martin is working on a sketching add on, but I've had quite a few issues trying to get a trackplan of Slattocks that shows up well on a screen or an A4 sheet. Full size it is absolutely brilliant. Hi Andy, You can get reasonable results by switching the rails off for printing, and setting a thick track centre-line. Say 30mm wide for 4mm scale. Then print the pad to fit a single page. The red trim margins can be suppressed by simply changing their colour to white. The track centre-line prints in the same colour as the rail edges, so you can change that to whatever you want. I have made a bit of Jing video showing these changes being made (it may take a short while to load): ...
... start from if that is necessary. Attachment: attach_654_940_3way_tandem_turnout _09_09_24_1036_04.box 322 posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:50 from: Martin Wynne Hi Peter, If you make the right-hand turnout an A-6 rather than a B-6, and increase the crossing entry-straight a little, you can get the tandem within your 345mm limit. Minimum radius is 814mm (32"). The right-hand check rail on the middle V-crossing will need some careful positioning. Here's a quick screenshot (00-BF): 00_tandem_quick.png There is more about using the C&L templates at: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p =782009#p782009 and at: message 2130 You could create a tandem using the B-8 and B-6 templates from the C&L file if you prefer the smaller timbering. Sorry I don't have time today to write a proper reply. Apologies. regards, Martin. posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:26 from: Peter Price Hi Martin and Borg-Rail ...
159. Templot chat room
... chat'. Not as bad as the whole of http://www.templot.com which is totally banned by work. But get too many access denied hits and personnel come and have a one way chat. Hi Richard, Templot is a recreational hobby program for home computers, and the web site is designed on that basis. However I have now replaced the embedded chat room with an indirect link. This means it now takes two clicks to enter the chat room, but it prevents the chat room window from pulling the page focus. This should also cure your "access denied" problem. regards, Martin. posted: 19 Feb 2009 19:47 from: Richard Spratt Martin Thanks for trying, but it still gives the access denied problem. Oh well, I'll have to browse other hobby websites at lunchtime and save Templot for the evening. Richard posted: 19 Feb 2009 20:12 from: Brian Tulley Richard Spratt wrote: Not as bad as the whole of http://www.templot.com which is totally banned by work. But get ...
160. Lancaster Green Ayre
... with building more baseboards and now have another 4 in the garage ready to take to the club as space becomes available, The pile of timber is reducing slowly. Hopefully the first test vehicles can run on the bridge soon and we can test the clearances with 60' stock so that we can decide how wide to build the bridge. Due to the tighter than prototype curve the bridge has to be wider than the real one to allow for overhang etc. The great thing last night was that when we finished pasting down umpteen A4 sheets of paper they matched the far edge of a long baseboard to within 1mm that's a real tribute to Templot. The station buildings were also brought in last night and looked great. They are now in 4 sections and will be over 6' long. I've got to get on with designing the awning. Hope this is all of interest. I'm looking forward to getting the box files for the crossover that Martin designed for when we get to board C4. I've just made the one that leads onto it today. ...
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