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... Thanks again for advice chaps- it is really appreciated. I am off to Peterborough tomorrow to bombard the C&L chap with questions next... should prove to be expensive with all the startup bits! posted: posted: 17 Oct 2014 23:24 from: DerekStuart A quick update. Thanks to Martin's comments, I realised that even comparatively close items were suffering from larger than expected perspective issues. In other words the camera DOES lie. I have something that sort-of works in Templot (still a few dog legs). Unless someone has very good photos to contradict me, I think I have it fairly accurate now and certainly good enough to represent Whitby. Thanks again for everyone's ideas. 17 Oct 2014 23:24 from: DerekStuart A quick update. Thanks to Martin's comments, I realised that even comparatively close items were suffering from larger than expected perspective issues. In other words the camera DOES lie. I have something that sort-of works in Templot (still a few dog legs). Unless someone has ...
... topic: 351 Wolves steel terminal posted: 3 Mar 2008 14:24 from: davelong Good morning all I've created a plan for Wolverhampton steel terminal and Chillington wharf. Time frame 1985-1990. So Pre EWS and pre big shed. The rails into Chillington wharf were still used but the wharf interchange with the canal long ceased. Also the main loop in the plan represents the mainline between Wolverhampton and Birmingham. I've rolled the rails and shoved some timbers but I'm hoping that a few of you guys could cast an eye over the plan to see if my timber shoving looks ok/respectable/typical? For those of you who have seen my plans before you may be shocked to see I've even managed to get around to naming the labels, must be serious about this one! There is one REA point inside the loop, which I've put there on purpose as its likely that it would never have been rebuilt using FB rail like some of the other points. I'm going to take a step into the unknown here too, with combining ...
... I can say Seriously, thanks, not only for the confirmation that it can be done, but the step-by-step guide to doing it. I'll give it a try later on. My aim is that I might then be able to get the baseboard cross bearers laser cut, so that everything is spot on. I'll report back on the progress, and thanks again for a superb programme. Mike posted: 27 Apr 2020 13:40 from: Phil O Hi Mike, It might be worth adding a few extra millimetres to the width of your track bed, on several occasions I have cut the trackbed exactly and then found when I came to the scenics an extra few mil would have been handy. Now I always go 5mm over and trim it off if not needed. Stay safe. Phil posted: 27 Apr 2020 16:46 from: Mike Kynaston Phil O wrote: Hi Mike, It might be worth adding a few extra millimetres to the width of your track bed, on several occasions I have cut the trackbed ...
164. Knapford Junction
... topic: 2884 Knapford Junction posted: 31 May 2016 12:22 from: Gavin Rose Hello all. 'Knapford Junction' pre 1955 version. I have been designing and re-designing this plan for several years on and off and now which to finalise the plan so it can be built. Martin kindly asked me to post it so he could start me off on a few pointers with which I again extend much gratitude for the offer. I do want to learn to use Templot but like many I'm having difficult getting to grips with it. if there is no file or pic it is because I am trying to add them. I have added the pic to the layout plan, or at least 1 version of it but I haven't added the Anyrail file as it keeps giving me an error message. Attachment: attach_2290_2884_Knapford_Junction _31-05-16.jpg 1219 Last edited on 31 May 2016 12:53 by Gavin Rose posted: 31 May 2016 13:01 from: Martin Wynne Hi Gavin, Thanks. There is no real need to attach ...
165. Templot program code
... datum (see diagram above). This function is called often, not only to generate the line, but also for the peg calculations for the various tools functions. turnroad_cl is called from the generator to create a series of co-ordinates along the turnout-road centre-line, and put them in an array ready for the actual screen drawing function, or printing, or whatever. This routine calls aq25offset to create each co-ordinate pair. Note that it doesn't need the angle k for this purpose. A few notes about the code. function aq25offset(xs:extended; var k:extended):extended; That's a funny way of doing it. The offset is returned as a normal function result, but the angle is put in a var parameter supplied by the calling routine. After all these years I honestly can't remember why I did it that way. It would be more usual to return a record type containing both values, or else use var parameters for both. But it works fine, and I tend to ...
166. Forum emails
... www.comcast.net/help/faq/index.jsp?faq=SecurityMail_Policy18627 N.B. This problem applies only to forum members who are Comcast users. As far as I know, all other forum members are receiving email without problems at present. regards, Martin. posted: 5 Aug 2007 03:41 from: Dave Phillips Martin, I'm on Comcast and receiving Templot Club email just fine. When this problem originally occurred early in June, I contacted Comcast and asked them to unblock your ISP, which they did. It only took a few hours for Comcast to do this. You can submit a request to unblock the Templot IP address at http://www.comcastsupport.com/rbl. The IP address (at that time) was 85.233.160.20. Is your IP address the same? Maybe if each affected person requested unblocking, Comcast will eventually get the message! Best regards, Dave posted: 5 Aug 2007 04:20 from: Martin Wynne Dave Phillips wrote: I'm on Comcast and receiving Templot Club email just fine. When this problem originally occurred early in June ...
167. newbie
... tony polman Hi all. after a 30year pause, i`m now looking to get back into modelling railways. attached is my first attempt at a simple branch line terminus. any comments regarding operational problems, un-prototypical track plan, or just your thoughts on how to improve it would be most welcome. i`m hoping to keep within a 10ft by 2ft ish, area. cheers. Attachment: attach_747_1064_drophill_road.box 358 posted: 8 Mar 2010 17:52 from: Alan McMillan Hi Tony I noticed you had a few doglegs and a slightly "sectional track" approach. I've smoothed things out a bit and hopefully it'll be useful to you. Regards Alan McMillan Attachment: attach_748_1064_Drophill_Amended.b ox 328 posted: 8 Mar 2010 18:28 from: Paul Boyd Hi Tony I've looked at Alan's modified version as he's tidied up some of the obvious "quirks", but I'm having trouble visualising the plan as a finished layout! Could you perhaps explain a bit more about your thinking behind this? For instance, I think the fiddle yard exit is ...
... sorry a lot of stuff is not available at present. It will all come back as I get round to updating it for Templot2, and I will put re-directs to mend the broken links. I removed it because I got tired of writing "here's a link, oh by the way it's all out of date". I'm 70 this year. I'm not going to be pushed into doing anything faster or sooner than I choose to do it. p.s. We are moving to a new server in the next few weeks. The disk in the present one has been spinning continuously for 6 years and Jim feels it's time to move to SSD. cheers, Martin. posted: 20 Jan 2018 10:42 from: madscientist 70!, succession planning martin?" Documentation is like Sex, When its good, its really really good when its bad, its better then nothing" and heres` compiler puzzle" to tax your approaching 70 brain, what does the last line return? constexpr auto auto(){ return 1; ...
... something and nothing after my battery faux pas, but this has happened several times now. I'm working away and the Templot screen reverts to this. My home page plus a blank square in the middle. Moving the mouse takes me back to where I was working. Using Windows 7 with all updates current. Any ideas? Hi Gordon, I think that may be the Windows "Show Desktop" function. There is a small icon at the far bottom right of the screen which does that. It has caught me a few times. cheers, Martin. posted: 15 Dec 2017 14:05 from: John Shelley Martin Wynne wrote: Gordon S wrote: Could be something and nothing after my battery faux pas, but this has happened several times now. I'm working away and the Templot screen reverts to this. My home page plus a blank square in the middle. Moving the mouse takes me back to where I was working. Using Windows 7 with all updates current. Any ideas? Hi Gordon, I think that may be the ...
... to make (assuming you have a lathe, of course). The trick is not to have them too large in diameter, so that they fit between two adjacent rail fixings without getting in the way. A roller gauge turned from 6mm or 8mm bar is plenty large enough (1 /4" or 5/16" dia) in 4mm scale. For use with canted rail in chairs it's important not to make the gauge slots deeper than the rail head. The radiused corners on the rail head easily allow a few degrees of twist to accommodate the cant. For use with soldered construction on rivets or copper laminate, you don't have the chairs to hold the rail upright. So in that case it helps to make the slots the full depth of the rail so that the gauge also serves to hold the rail vertical. This means that a roller gauge for glued chaired construction is not so good for soldered construction, and vice versa. Ideally you need a gauge tool specific for each. If you have a gauge with deep slots, ...
... is considered a proper glue? Is the curling problem worse on turnout timbers due to the extra lengths involved or better due there being( in some cases) more rails holding them down. Are Veropins always flat under the head or is there any irregularity in this area that could result in the heads not being the same height above each sleeper. Rob posted: 29 May 2015 11:14 from: madscientist Hi rob, hard to make a comparison chart as no one person is building all methods. I'm currently examining a few so I'll try to. Build a cost matrix Vero pins are flat topped and regular, they are quite precise dimensionally Personally I am favouring a combination of methods with copperclad and vero pins at strong points posted: 29 May 2015 13:18 from: Nigel Brown Hi Rob Think a chart would be difficult, as there are many imponderables. The advantage of raising the question on here is that you may receive new information. In building my 3mm layout I used mainly chairs from Ian Osborne with Plastruct 0.75mm thick sleepers and ...
172. Newcastle Diamonds
... topic: 3111 Newcastle Diamonds posted: 19 Oct 2017 20:32 from: Richie Kynaston Evening all,I'm looking for some help from those more knowledgable. I'm looking to see if I can recreate the diamonds at Newcastle for my layout- still swapping about with ideas- but Newcastle ticks quite a few boxes. After looking at EM, I think i've settled on 00-SF, to reduce the amount of work needed (ie rewheeling stock etc) but getting better track. Now I have the track plan from the Quail 1987 Book, by which time BR had done away with bay Platforms 1-3, but the rest of the layout was substantially complete. I'm working from that and this image Flickr image from New Castle Keep to try and replicate the trackwork, but I've a couple of queries. Can anyone hazard a guess what what track centers I should be using, I don't think it's common 6ft throughout, but not sure that it's 6ft/10ft spacing? Can anyone take a guess at what kind of Point work this ...
173. Minories
... rail, I going to use it for my small collection of old locos and carriages. Double slips are a bit of a pain at the best of times, as the blades are too stiff in code 75 if built as flexible type, so they have to be built as hinged. I think I have read somewhere with smaller sized crossings were switched diamonds rather than double slips. I have some old American ready made code 100 turnout rail parts, which will be ideal for saving time. Just need to firm up a few areas before the soldering iron comes out posted: 1 Dec 2014 17:29 from: Hayfield Martin Thanks, most of the locos are on old RTR chassis, though some do have Romford wheels. Most may even have flangeless centre drivers (I also have a selection of Romford flangeless drivers. I think at worst I could possibly drop in a straight turnout on the outer curve and just adjust the plain track to suite. I think I will build the station throat first then see what happens after. I will be ...
... more tap to get Templot to open, if that is the case. I have made some changes in terminology. I know this will be contentious for existing users, but the idea is to make things easier to understand for new users: I guess we'll get used to it "Portrait" printing has been renamed "end-run". "Landscape" printing has been renamed "side-run". Hmmm.... I personally think that's more confusing, but then I never did understand why a very few people had problems with Portrait and Landscape. A template running along the long edge of the screen printed out along the long edge of the paper. Simple? The other changes look useful. I hope the strange minimizing action has been sorted finally. I'll let you know. The mouse wheel one won't affect me though- I no longer even have a mouse attached to my PC Cheers posted: 19 Jul 2007 17:01 from: Brian W Lewis Hi Martin! Thanks for that! I had stuck with .82 up ...
175. Making crossing vees
... topic: 3220 Making crossing vees posted: 19 Feb 2018 08:46 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: just that your excellent answers to user enquiries may be missed by people like me who don't monitor several different forums. Hi Rob, Here is a re-hash of some stuff I have posted here and elsewhere a few times. I will get all this into the Templot Companion eventually. It is much easier to file a vee after assembling it. Even easier if you use a disc sander. Below shows how a vee can be constructed to any angle matching the template, without needing filing jigs, and finishing with solid metal at the nose. I have greatly exaggerated the crossing angle for clarity. The rails are shown in cross-section along the rail -- yellow shows the rail head and foot, orange shows the web of the rail: 2_060749_540000000.png Make sure you have both rails the right way up. Bullhead rail has the thicker part at the top. A is a prepared piece of rail with the end bent ...
... I'm not sure about now, is when I have complicated pointwork how I should handle it? For example, I'm somewhat working backwards in the below from where the Vee's are, and some of the timbers seem... impractically large. http://i.imgur.com/2kd33PD.png posted: 14 Oct 2018 22:29 from: William Williamson I actually think I've done most of the work, does this make sense though? I've tried to keep the lengths as small as possible where feasible, but there are just quite a few arrangements where timbers appear to need to span the whole formation width. Is this roughly correct? http://i.imgur.com/Hpw3yLE.png and http://i.imgur.com/GMHoqhv.png Last edited on 14 Oct 2018 22:30 by William Williamson posted: 14 Oct 2018 23:03 from: Martin Wynne William Williamson wrote: I actually think I've done most of the work, does this make sense though? I've tried to keep the lengths as small as possible where feasible, but there are just quite a few arrangements where ...
177. Check Rail Chairs
... 2 CCR and 2 CCL chairs (a.k.a. S1C, S1CR and S1CL). These are shown on the 2nd image in the original posting. It's almost impossible to photograph the transparent acrylic so I had to make up a short section of track and apply some paint. 100_211351_270000000.jpg The S1 chairs are C&L 3-bolt; the ballast is Slaters "Fine" (the bag is priced 84p so it may have been in my box for a while!); the ash is by C&L with a few bits of greenery by Woodland Scenics. 100_211351_510000000.jpg From left-to-right: CCR chair and 3 CC chairs. The CCL chair was out of focus so had to be cropped from this view. 100_211352_260000000.jpg From left-to-right: CC chair and CCL chair. You can just see some banding from the 3D-printing process in this enlarged image but the chairs are only approx 11 mm by 4 mm so this is not visible to the unaided eye. There are also some buffer stops which are suitable for ...
... switch for 1:7 slip> (or if you wish another ratio select that) and click OK. Problem is I use custom american turnouts (dont ask me the exact measurements, I just used some old ones I found in a box file here on the forum) Do you have any tips for what I should do when I want to make a #12 double slip with a custom turnout as a base? Hi Leo, I have just managed to have a quick look at your message, and tried a few things. You can use any custom turnout you like to make the slip. 1. First follow the instructions in the guide and put in your two guide curves as described in the sections 10001 through 10005. 2. Then make the diamond crossing as described in sections 20001 through 20006. 3. Now load your custom turnout and make it the control template, ensure that this template is a short distance away from your diamond crossing and not overlapping it. 4. Next, you need to isolate the switch blades from ...
... topic: 3779 Admin: Live Help Screen posted: 23 Sep 2020 22:47 from: Martin Wynne The tests for the Virtual Scaleforum on Saturday reminded me that a few years ago I tried broadcasting my Templot screen as a way of providing quick Templot help and support instead of writing long replies and making screenshots and videos. It wasn't very successful then, but browser tech and broadband seems to have improved a bit since, so I have had another go. So far it seems to be working quite well, at least here. If you go to this link right now: http://templot.com/companion/live_screen.php you should be able to see Templot running. You can tell it's live because the red radius warning indicator should be flashing. If not, try pressing CTRL+ F5 to refresh the page. Allow 20 seconds or so before anything much happens. From time to time for the next few hours I will dabble with it just to see how well it works. Please report if it is working for you, the ...
... topic: 1813 Single slip and diamond crossing help posted: 29 Jan 2012 15:34 from: AndyJ Hi there... I'm pretty new to Templot and been playing around with it for a while but i'm still struggling with a few bits.. Having taken the plungle in building my own track and just started a new exhibition layout i'm having a bit of a job setting out some point work. Mainly an outside slip with a diamond attatched to it. Could someone point me in the right direction to making this possible... Hopefully the file will be attatched to this post so you can see what i mean. Many thanks Andy Attachment: attach_1337_1813_Herstmonceux.box 318 posted: 29 Jan 2012 20:41 from: Alan McMillan Hi Andy I've run something up for you. An outside slip was never going to work in that tight space, so I took the liberty of replacing it with a single turnout and a double switched diamond slip. I also eased the curve to make it less like it hand been built using Peco Setrack. ...
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