... 1019 Single Outside Slip posted: 18 Jan 2010 23:09 from: alangdance Can anybody help me get started with building a single outside slip. I have no idea where to start. I have been using Templte for a little while now and have manage a single slip and 3 way tandem using the videos without much problems but do not now where to start on this outside slip. \doed anybody have a box file I could use or just some starting points to get me started. I am working in 00-BF. Any help would be most helpful. Alan posted: 19 Jan 2010 01:07 from: Martin Wynne alangdance wrote: Can anybody help me get started with building a single outside slip. I have no idea where to start. Hi Alan, An outside single slip is essentially two overlapping turnouts. The basic alignments can be derived quite quickly. Here's a bit of Jing video showing that (give it a moment to download): Getting an exact crossing angle requires some experimenting with the crossing angles and radius in ...

... from: David R Paul Boyd wrote: That crossing nose chair- I know C&L do one in brass but unless there's some odd colour rendering yours looks likes like resin. Is it? 100_170919_400000000.jpg C&L's A-chair casting is a GWR one without the triangular webs either side; this one is a NER design. All of the "white" bits in the photo are dozens of tiny bits of plastic card and rod. This is an O-fine crossing but if I can get my camera to focus close enough I'll see if I can post images of the EM gauge 3-way which I've done to the same detail, just to prove it could be done! Martin: Agreed, the crossing nose should be blunted but I was trying to reduce the gap at the expense of pushing the holding down bolt off of the timber (the foot of the point rail does actually extend beneath the plastic saddle, holding down bolt and washer). O-fine flangeways were reduced to 1.5mm (just possible with Slaters wheels ...

... Yes they could mean different things. However, I think it would get even more confusing than it is already. I wanted to have as many shortcuts as possible which could be easily pressed with one hand (the other hand being on the mouse). So I duplicated 10 of the CTRL+ shortcuts with a simple press on the main number keys. Unfortunately we can't extend that to the letter keys, because they are wanted for use as button accelerator keys on the info and shove timber dialogs while the pad still has focus. Some of the remaining non-letter keys have also been pressed into use as single-key shortcuts. For example the comma key launches the shove timber dialog, the square bracket keys for transition adjustments, the slash keys for shifting and rotating groups,' and# for adjusting slews,- and= for swapping between 1st and 2nd radius in transitions (one or two horizontal lines, see?) There is a full list at help> show shorcut keys list menu item. I hope you intend to provide ...

... certainly my finger trouble! I seem to have got the information panel stuck at the top of the screen with its title bar off the top, so I can't drag it down. I've no idea how I got it like that. I've tried the following:- F2 off and on again- Exit Templot and reload, but whenever I load my box file (or any recent one), it ends up stuck off the screen again.- Alt-space doesn't work because the main Templot window seems to get the focus- Change size of main window, drag top of main window, even enable a second screen above the main window and drag it up onto second screen, still information panel sits with its title bar off the screen.- I can drag the bottom of the information panel down and make it bigger, so I can see the bottom part of the information panel, starting from about where the shrink button is Is there an ini file or something where I can poke a correct window position before reloading templot? It's frustrating ...

... topic: 1195 Printing problem posted: 10 Aug 2010 12:57 from: Des Norman Hi all, Have run through tutorial, read notes on printing, created and saved printer config. file- but can't get printing to work properly. Have 1 turnout on the pad after a fresh start, covering 2 A4 sheets. When I select print/preview current pages, shows a1, a2. Click 'all remaining pages' only results in 1st page being printed then printer locks up still showing 2nd page outstanding. Selected saved config file when asked. Windows start/printers, double-click on printer shows document status as printing. Highlighting and selecting restart ineffective. If I start afresh and omit 1st page, click print all remaining pages, this one page still won't print. Feel as though I've hit a brick wall already. Any suggestions please? Regards, Des Windows XP SP3 Epson Stylus D88 inkjet printer- prints fine from any other software program. posted: 10 Aug 2010 13:58 from: Martin Wynne Hi Des, Welcome ...

... rail on one half-diamond, and the main-side (MS) half-check rail on the other. For the example shown I reduced each end by 39", and to help maintain checking I reduced the flare length to only 27". Here is the result: slip_mods.png You can see that there is still a slight conflict, but easily dealt with during construction with a few strokes of the file. These compromises are the price to be paid for not using P4. It's much worse in 00-BF or 00/H0 of course. You could try moving the slip switches a little closer to the V-crossings, but bear in mind that the points (switch tips) must be supported on a timber, must have room to open between the wing rail fronts, and the V-crossing check rails must be long enough in front of the crossing to check it properly. There is a video showing how to create a slip in 082d. This has some new functions which simplify the written tutorial (which was ...

... mention knowing in advance that to get round into the fiddle yard at 42" radius will mean doing without one of the carriage sidings. On the other hand Templot makes it easy to overdo things. Putting a 20-metre radius in a terminal platform when there is no obvious reason why it couldn't have been built straight can look a bit daft. If you are working over a background scan, it really depends on the scale. If it is a 25" OS map, or a pencil sketch on a piece of A4 which you scanned in as a rough guide, you do need to lay out the overall curves and mark key locations first. Otherwise it's difficult to know which size of turnout is the most likely to fit where. On the other hand, for a detailed 40ft rating plan showing the position of the switch toes and crossings, brick-by-brick is the only feasible approach. Having exactly matched one turnout you can move on to the next. Whichever approach you adopt, avoid closing in on the detail too early ...

... attached (R12) DXF file. It contains one PLINE with 5 segments; 4 of the segments are imported but the last isn't. I'm not sure if this is as it's the last segment, or because it's diagonal, or because it's a "close segment". I tried converting the close segment to a normal one, but it's still not imported. [EDIT] If I create the shapes with normal lines, all 5 lines are imported correctly. Would be nice to import the PLINE correctly though. Attachment: attach_117_baseboardtop.dxf 345 Last edited on 23 Oct 2007 20:51 by richard_t 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> Importing DXF files 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 to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, ...

... . However I got to the section that mention over sized flangeways etc so I checked and yes the K check rails were protruding through the slip rails, so I tried changing the size of the check rails after reading the help files, the problem is to fit them in they're down to a silly 60 or below inches almost hardly worth them being there at all at that size. Any advice (other than we've told you before how naff oo is for this kind of thing). Also there was not much difference between BF and SF with this one unless I'm doing something wrong. Just to add It's a 1:6. Dave posted: 29 Jan 2008 03:28 from: Martin Wynne davelong wrote: 00 gauge double slips more importantly K crossing check rail lengths?........ Just to add It's a 1:6. Hi Dave, A 1:6 slip in 00 gauge is just about the worst case. I've prepared some diagrams to illustrate the problem, and a few ideas. The problem ...

... work to add them all. I will add the page origin to the program preferences for the next update. Thanks for the suggestion. In the meantime, have a look at output> page origin> set page origin> number of pages. By referring to the last printed page number it shouldn't be too difficult to restart them where you left off. See also output> page origin> multiple output runs> menu options. It should take only 2 or 3 clicks there to cover a 20m layout, even with small A4 pages. I'd also like Templot to stop renumbering the templates every time as it gets confusing having two with the same number when you find a sleeper or something minor that needs editing half way through printing a large diagram. To avoid the numbers changing, click wipe to the control instead of delete to the control before making changes to a template. The edited template will gain a new number when stored again, but all the other template numbers will remain unchanged. When printing is over, any unwanted unused (wiped) ...