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... bonus timbers on the main side. Tip: Using the shortcut keys helps accuracy (these are the underlined letters on the shove timbers control, e.g. L for lengthen, S for shorten). You should now have a template similar to the following screenshot: Finish of the remaining timbers and you'll end up with an almost complete template (the guide templates have been removed in this picture): The only problem now is that the check rails are too long for this prototype. So fix this by using the real> customize V-crossing> wing and check rails... menu option and on second data entry screen, set the check lengths to 48, 78, 108 (the defaults are 78, 108, 138). The check rails now look much better. They don't quite line up with the sleepers but this is easily sorted during the build. All images and content copyright ©Grotsoft 2008.____ regards, Martin. posted: 13 May 2010 11:34 from: Bruce Fletcher weecaleypug wrote: Hi ...
... plain track. Change default sleeper spacing for turnouts. Turnouts have timbers. Plain track has sleepers. It is important to keep this distinction in mind in using the Templot terminology. In UK track, they are not the same width. In version 091c, click the real> timbering> timbering data... menu item. Click the more info F1 button, and the? help F2 buttons on each line for detailed help. Change the length of the machined ends on check rails. In version 091c, real> customize V-crossing> wing and check rails... menu item. Click the more info F1 button, and the? help F2 buttons on each line: flare_length.png In version 074b the same functions are available but the menus are arranged slightly differently. If you are customizing templates like this, it is better to upgrade to 091c. I have found how to override track gauge and check gauge widths. Rather than override, It is better to set a custom gauge setting with a name, in the gauge/scale ...
143. Irish narrow-gauge
... broad gauge in S7; is there any way of generating templates for mixed gauge track (5' 3" and 3' 0")? Hi Stephen, Yes, Templot can create templates for any gauge or scale, including Irish narrow-gauge. The standard list of gauges is purely a collection of pre-set sizes for convenience. It doesn't contain any pre-set narrow-gauge sizes because of the wide variety of prototypes and scales used for n.g. modelling. For narrow-gauge it is necessary to customize your own templates to your requirements. There is a Templot video showing how to customize templates for narrow-gauge at: customizing narrow-gauge Whether it's easy or not I can't judge -- you do need to know (or invent) some prototype details. See for example my previous reply today: Gn15 template Mixed-gauge templates can be created in the same way as any complex formation, using overlaid partial templates. It's not difficult, but you need a bit of experience with Templot first. Here for example ...
144. Gn15 curved turnouts
... posted: 27 Oct 2008 15:47 from: Martin Wynne marc witten wrote: I am after a bit of info, for use on a layout, basically I'm doing a Pizza layout, and I require three Curved turnouts, these will be for Gn15 scale,16.5mm track, the Mainline of the Turnout is 14", whilst the Turnout is a 7" radius. How do I relate this using Templot, or is there a tutorial, that will help? Hi Marc, There is a video showing how to customize narrow-gauge templates at: customizing narrow-gauge templates and more about Gn15 in Templot at: Gn15 topic You didn't give any information about rail top width, flangeway standards, or the exact scale (G scale seems to be any scale you feel like at the time ), but I've had a quick go at creating your turnout by guessing dimensions: gn15_4.png I set the rail-top at 1.5" wide, track gauge and flangeway as for H0, scale as for Gauge 3 at 13.5mm/ft, rail ...
... topic: 443 On15 points and track posted: 23 May 2008 16:32 from: Stuart Mitchell HI.. I wish to build some On15 points and track, I was wondering if any one has a data file they could share or how do I go about set a custom point up., Scale is 7mm on 9mm track. Thanks Stuart Mitchell posted: 23 May 2008 16:56 from: Martin Wynne Stuart Mitchell wrote: I wish to build some On15 points and track, I was wondering if any one has a data file they could share or how do I go about set a custom point up., Scale is 7mm on 9mm track. Hi Stuart, There's a video on creating custom narrow-gauge turnouts at: topic 376 regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> On15 points and track about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please ...
146. tools > make slip
... to keep it. I'm afraid this new function is for inside slips only, as you suspected. It will however let you create one at any angle, so if you want to try a 1:5 inside slip, you can. This is what a curved one on 2640mm radius looks like in 4-SF: 2_271601_180000000.png The inner slip road radius at 481mm/19" is rather sharper than anyone would consider for 4-SF! It could probably be eased a bit by creating your own design from scratch using custom switches, but probably not by enough to make it usable. On the other hand the outer slip road is 793mm/31.2" radius, so a 1:5 single-slip is feasible in 4-SF if given some contraflexure. The K-crossing check rail would still be a challenge. On straight track, the slip roads are 600mm/23.6", so maybe just borderline 4-SF territory if unavoidable. Some gauge-widening would be advisable. In EM, a straight 1:5 slip ...
... to C&L( in fact I dont know if its available at all) personally for me, in 16,5mm I use PECO bullhead as its a good compromise between looks and price dave Last edited on 3 Oct 2018 13:52 by madscientist posted: 3 Oct 2018 14:54 from: Hayfield Dave Firstly its replacing an existing product that sold well, incorporating the feedback when C&L sold the Exactoscale product as the C&L thick base track, Phil decided to improve on the design to give customers a viable alternative by including 2 key options and the 60' track panels, this is something which is currently not available I accept that it may not be to your liking, but Phil feels it is well worth the expenditure in new tooling and is hoping the innovations will increase its sales C&L have been supplying 4mm scale 00 gauge track for a long time. Peco abandoned 4 mm scale track years ago, selling H0 scale track, and only came back into 4 mm scale market when another company started to ...
148. Print Rail Foot?
... small dialog popped up after changes like this are made saying something like: "This change will be reflected in all templates created from now on. Would you like this change to be made to all existing background templates (not library or inactive templates) in this Storage Box? [YES] [NO]". Just a thought. Your solution to Modify Group to Match covers all possible situations. But, the user has to know it's there. As a beginner, I didn't. Btw, I built my first custom turnout designed in Templot2 over the weekend and had a ball doing it. It looks and works great. Thanks for making that possible. Mark C posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:19 from: Martin Wynne Mark C wrote: What threw me off in trying to change the rail type was that I saw "Flatbottom" in the information panel when I clicked on every background template. Hi Mark, The information panel always shows the info for the current control template. Perhaps I need to make that more evident in ...
149. Printing Accuracy
... much on getting everything aligned by sticking sheets together, but by printing out with (usually) a 100mm grid. I draw a matching grid on the baseboard, then align each individual sheet to that instead of to each other. The sheets are printed directly to the calibrated printer and not via PDF, but you know that now! As far as paper goes, I use either 250gsm Bristol Board or 250gsm white board. The latter I buy in A2 sheets- these are cut in half lengthways, and together with a custom paper size for the printer means I can effectively print two A4 sheets end to end as a single piece of paper- the fewer the pieces of paper, the better! The ink isn't waterproof on the A2 board, but a coat of Ronseal protects it during the hurly-burly of track building and means I can slosh flux and neutralizer around with impunity. All of this will depend on your printer though. If your HP feeds the paper in the front and turns it through 180 degrees, 250gsm may be a ...
150. Despair
... CAD, drawing board etc. Andy posted: 18 Mar 2009 12:00 from: Andy B double post removed. Finger trouble? Andy Last edited on 18 Mar 2009 12:43 by Andy B posted: 18 Mar 2009 12:09 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin I think you have to accept that you will always get some people for whom Templot is just not going to be an option. Some people just don't get on with some programs- it's as simple as that! Having said that, if your customer hasn't asked for help on this forum, he's missing out on a massive resource of knowledge. Wasn't it part of the Ts& Cs that this forum is first-line support, or was that just a suggestion? If it was just a suggestion, it sounds like you need to make it compulsory so you can get on with other things! Also, I don't know how long he's had Templot for, but if it's as long as he's been a member of the forum it sounds like he's trying to run ...
151. P4 Kings Cross
... are some proper FB switches pre-set available in Templot but they are all pre-1970 inclined FB designs. Even just changing to those will mean quite a lot of reworking of your plan. If it was remodelled in 1972 it's more likely to have been done with the 1432mm vertical FB designs with double-curved switches. But that will have long since worn out by now, and is probably now replaced with RT/NR60 designs. If you want accurate representations of what is there now you will need to create custom modern FB switches and cast crossings (and have access to a lot of the current prototype data), and redo the whole thing. regards, Martin. posted: 10 Sep 2012 13:46 from: James Thanks for the reply Martin. Yes, I was going to model it in FB but that sounds like it will be a bit of a task to do it correctly? I don't mind the idea of custom FB swicthes but finding the correct prototype info in the first place (with enought reference photos) ...
... I sometimes find that after I have drawn a nice piece of straight trackwork that it needs either to be on a long curve or just curved at the end in order to flow and fit a space I have available. If you have a string of templates end-to-end, don't forget the align functions. You can create a new centre-line, and then one by one copy the existing templates and align them onto the new alignment. It's quite quick to do, and retains any work you have done customizing the templates. regards, Martin. posted: 2 Mar 2008 03:15 from: Jamie92208 How do you do the align on the centre line function please. Is there a tutorial on it? Jamie Guest posted: 2 Mar 2008 18:40 from: Peter Ayre Martin Wynne wrote: If you have a string of templates end-to-end, don't forget the align functions. You can create a new centre-line, and then one by one copy the existing templates and align them onto the new ...
... track templates, first set 4-SF gauge, then real> plain track options> rail lengths and sleeper spacings... menu item: 2_061840_350000000.png Select the 60ft/26 sleepers option. That of course will be for jointed bullhead. Long-welded bullhead is extremely rare, even though that is what a yard length of Peco track is in effect. Over to you on whether you want to re-space the sleepers to match the rail joints on the templates. If not, for unjointed bullhead, select a custom slot, click the custom settings... button above. Set a dummy "rail length" which is equal to the sleeper spacing of 28", and have a single sleeper spaced at half that distance 14" from the dummy "joint". Then click the real> plain track options> rail-joint marks> none menu option. If that doesn't quite match the flexi-track, adjust the 28" accordingly. regards, Martin. posted: 7 Oct 2017 23:23 from: madscientist thanks ...
... our plastic ones. If you can find a caster, I suspect that whitemetal casting is probably the least expensive way of producing metal chairs. There is also 3D printing of metal parts and that might be another way to use but I don't know what the costs of this printing might be. Jim. posted: 20 Sep 2018 20:41 from: Rob Manchester Hi Jim, Thanks for your thoughts. I like to make all my layout track using seperate chairs except for fiddle yards and such like. Using flexitrack between custom P&C work never looks right when I try it. The issue of cost becomes more relevant then because you need around 200 chairs to make a yard of track in addition to 2 lengths of rail and sleepers. Luckily most of my future plans are for smaller layouts(....in case I don't stay around long enough to finish a big one) There is often an issue within hobbies such as ours in that many of the original protaganists have either moved on,left the hobby or are at the stage ...
... it to rails only, like this: 2_211251_200000000.png Change it to sleepered or timbered as you require. cheers, Martin. posted: 21 Sep 2019 17:51 from: Z Gauge Tim Hi Martin, thanks. I was actually talking about rights side of picture. Showing timbers doesn't help- they are missing. Thanks Attachment: attach_2904_3144_midland_central_2 019_09_21_1950_00.box 129 posted: 21 Sep 2019 18:20 from: Martin Wynne Hi Tim, Thanks for the .box file. The reason for the missing sleepering is that you have set an invalid custom setting for the rail lengths and sleeper spacings: 2_211313_250000000.png That is currently set to a rail length of 866.14 inches (obviously wrong), with all the sleeper spacings set to zero. I suggest to select one of the upper settings in that list as a starting point. There is more about setting custom rail lengths and sleeper spacings here: http://templot.com/martweb/pdf_files/gwr_track_panels.pdf That tutorial was written by Stuart Hince several years ago, but it is still valid for Templot2. It is specifically for ...
156. Knuckle Bend Radius
... topic: 3275 Knuckle Bend Radius posted: 31 May 2018 09:36 from: richard_t Sometimes the set custom knuckle bend radius isn't shown correctly in the information panel. 499_310435_200000000.png posted: 31 May 2018 10:56 from: Martin Wynne richard_t wrote: Sometimes the set custom knuckle bend radius isn't shown correctly in the information panel. Hi Richard, The dimension set in the dialog is in prototype inches. The dimensions shown in the data panel are in model mm at the current scale. 192 inches= 16ft. 16ft at 7mm/ft= 112mm. cheers, Martin. posted: 31 May 2018 11:18 from: richard_t Ah obvious when you think about it. Thanks. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> I found a flaw> Knuckle Bend Radius 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 ...
157. Check Rails
... rails...., of possible? Thank you, Zoë posted: posted: 19 Feb 2008 13:23 from: Andy B Use the search facilities on this forum to find "contnuous check rail"- there have been several previous topics on this. Andy 19 Feb 2008 13:23 from: Andy B Duplicate deleted! Last edited on 19 Feb 2008 13:24 by Andy B posted: 19 Feb 2008 23:46 from: Paul Boyd Hi Zoë The basic idea is to use a turnout with customized check rails, then blank off the turnout part. If you open up Templot with the default B6 turnout, use F4 to extend the overall length to, say 1m long. Then from the 'real' menu, Real=>customize v-crossing=>wing and check rails. In the dialogue box I would suggest clicking the "more info F1" button. In there should be all the info you need, so if you print that off and work with the template you should be able to follow what's ...
... be calculated as: L= (R -G )/ N cheers, Martin. posted: 20 Sep 2019 12:04 from: RedgateModels Martin Wynne wrote: and strangely narrow spindly timbering. Marcway have a bit of a thing about using plain track width sleepers on turnouts. Last time I ordered from them they were astounded that I wanted wider strip to build mine, even though they sell two widths. Like the other model shops in the People's Republic of South Yorkshire they are a bit "quirky" in their customer approach ;) Last edited on 20 Sep 2019 12:04 by RedgateModels posted: 20 Sep 2019 19:42 from: Rob Manchester Try asking Marcway for the 3rd timber width that is sometimes required on crossing work- equates to the 14" timbers used on the prototype. Rob posted: 21 Sep 2019 08:23 from: Hayfield RedgateModels wrote: Martin Wynne wrote: and strangely narrow spindly timbering. Marcway have a bit of a thing about using plain track width sleepers on turnouts. Last time I ordered from ...
... for the nudge. cheers, Martin. posted: 1 Jun 2018 23:10 from: David Gregory Hi Martin Thanks for the welcome, quick reply and all that great information- explains everything. Apologies if I've resurrected something that was better left to moulder... If I've already built my plan to the existing Templot O-SF standard, would I have a problem when the program is next updated (and the standard is reverted to 1.2mm flangeway)? Second question if I may: I've just created a Templot custom gauge 0-SF(R ), using the revised standards (31.25/1.25)- very easy to do. However, if I take an existing template (wipe to control), place peg on fine point, and just change to this custom gauge, the geometry also changes (straight to curved) and the template 'jumps' to another part of the trackpad (overall dimensions, turnout angle, etc. remain unchanged). I was hoping I could use this technique to see the impact/possibility of ...
160. Pug version 091c
... . There is a new HTML-based viewer for the internal Help notes. At present the content is largely unchanged, but it will now be possible to include diagrams and screenshots in the notes in future. The printed output from the Help viewer is now much improved also. There is a new option to match the template length when using the align functions. tools> align options> menu options. This is now a more convenient alternative to the insert turnout in plain track and obtain functions when you want to insert a customized template into an existing location. New option for the F6 curving mouse action to maintain the swing angle constant by adjusting the template length accordingly (constant-radius templates only, not transition curve templates). There are some Help notes about this at action> F6 curving options> menu options. New mouse action: adjust crossing entry straight for a regular-type V-crossing. action> mouse actions: real> adjust V-crossing entry straight menu item. Increasing the crossing entry straight is a convenient way to ...
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