... there is the original Templot Companion web site. Mostly written 15 years ago and barely updated since, including some lengthy static tutorials. Large parts of it are now out of date, or have been overtaken subsequently by many new features and functions. But it still contains more information in one place than anywhere else: 2_031328_430000000.png It's here: http://templot.com/martweb/templot_gs.htm 2. A few years after that, I started creating the Camtasia downloadable videos. They are also mostly out of date. There is a partial list of them on this page: 2_031328_430000001.png It's here: http://templot.com/martweb/video_list.htm 3. As the old versions developed I created two long pages explaining all the additional features introduced. Those pages contain masses of information which has never been linked in anywhere else: 2_031328_430000002.png Find them here: http://templot.com/martweb/pug_info.htm 4. Separately from all that, the Templot program itself has always contained some lengthy Help notes on the various functions and settings. But none of that is integrated ...

... switch changing. The menu item is disabled when the F5 mouse action is not active. All of which is completely out of date and irrelevant, because you should no longer be using the F5 mouse action to adjust the middle V-crossings of tandem turnouts. It is now much easier to use the F9 mouse action instead, which doesn't affect the switch. Furthermore, you may not have a switch to lock. For the middle V-crossing in a tandem turnout it is now usually much more convenient to use a partial irregular half-diamond or a gaunt turnout template, neither of which have a switch. All of which illustrates how out-of-date the tandem video is. I have more than once been on the point of deleting it, but hesitated because I simply don't have anything ready with which to replace it. See: topic 2418- message 16361 I really sorry about this situation, and to be honest I'm approaching despair in ever getting the Templot docs sufficiently finished before most users just give up. If you search ...

... line linking to it looked very odd and confusing. But at that time I left the turnouts unchanged -- as far as I can recall no-one has ever commented on this feature of Templot. But it is not entirely convenient, so I have belatedly done something about it. The turnout-road centre-line will now follow the curve, and terminate at the switch heel: 2_300829_040000001.png This is still visible, just, as a hand marker when zoomed out: 2_300829_040000002.png This now makes it much easier to peg partial templates onto the turnout curve -- for example when inserting catch points into a turnout, or creating type-2 tandems where the second switch is in the turnout road of the first switch. Previously to do this it was necessary to run the peg along the rail rather than the centre-line to the required position. Now you can start from say CTRL-6 peg position and run it directly down the centre-line (CTRL-F8 mouse action). Here for example I have inserted a set of ...

... the 'prototype for everything' (odd use of a special chair to support a fish plate) posted: 9 Nov 2015 14:25 from: DerekStuart I thought this might be of interest to some people. It appears to be a slide chair or other special chair that has a bolt hole, supporting a fish plate. Presumably at some point it has had a bolt right through it and the fish plate. It isn't my photo, so I will just leave a URL. Incidentally, just behind the camera is a partial original NER interlaced turnout. http://www.flickr.com/photos/55727763@N02/8279220332/ Last edited on 9 Nov 2015 14:27 by DerekStuart Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Prototype pics> One for the 'prototype for everything' (odd use of a special chair to support a fish plate) about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: ...

... rather than get a newer design authorised. http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/840512dp.htm Battersby run around loop at the Picton End; about to be traversed by a blue Brush 4. About half way down the page. EDIT: Note also that it has original 4 hole chairs, rather than the 3 hole later used by LNER/REA/BR designs. http://www.flickr.com/photos/55727763@N02/7614284136/ Battersby at the Whitby/ Tees end by the former signal box. This is a partially interlaced turnout. Note that it has check rails that conform to LNER/REA specification, rather than the 'curly' type used by the NER. According to NERA documents, the LNER did not use interlaced turnouts for renewals. http://www.flickr.com/photos/55727763@N02/8358449635/ This is the switch end of the above turnout. Note that there is only one single sleeper ahead of the toe (NER practice) and that the blade tips cover the whole of the first slide chair (NOT NER ...

... . Every time a template is added or deleted the entire box is renumbered. Or when the templates are moved up or down in the storage box using the brown arrow buttons. The only real use of the numbers is to control the order in which the template are output, so that you can control which one is overlaid on which other one. This is sometimes important for the diagram mode output on the sketchboard where you have one track crossing another on a bridge, for example. It can also be important when using partial templates. For example when printing a slip template, the slip switches need to be printed after the underlying half-diamonds to show the correct rail edges through the switch. Instead of the numbers, to keep track of which template is which, you can either use the marker colours, or ideally the tagging system. In the next Templot version update you will be able to see the colours in the storage box, but currently in 213a you can't do that, so I recommend using the tagging system. It is ...

... 31 from: Martin Wynne Martion Elsworth wrote: I've been trying to find the Make Transition function but can't- where is it please? Hi Martin, Welcome to Templot Cub. Click on a background template, and then this item on its menu: 2_071314_380000000.png The result will be a transition curve between the two curves: 2_071314_380000001.png Your next task is to adjust the length of it, and/or delete the original template(s ), as required. (In the next Templot update version, the length adjustment will be partially automated.) More about transition curves in Templot: http://templot.com/martweb/gs_geometry.htm#transition More about the make transition functions: http://templot.com/martweb/info_files/make_trans.htm Sorry that is over 10 years out of date and lots of things could now be done differently, but the basics are still the same. Also, this old video shows how to use the make transition function in the second half: parallel platform using transition curve (5 mins, 5MB) (Press the SPACEBAR ...

... system, it is also available (in poorer image quality) at: http://flashbackconnect.com/Movie.aspx?id=ib65pLfUkgNxFBDqAZSNyA2 When you have the diamond-crossing, adding slip roads is the same as for regular diamonds. However, looking at your plan, the crossing angle is very short and you may find that the radius for an inside slip is too tight. The solution then would be to go for an outside slip instead. Unfortunately there isn't a video for that, although you can work it out from partial templates in the usual way. regards, Martin. posted: 23 Apr 2016 22:25 from: Jubilee42 Thanks for your (as ever) helpful advice! I shall go to bed at meet the problem with renewed vigour in the morning!! Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Baffled beginners> I'm stuck again ..Single slip about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners ...

... need to decide between in-line or centralized timber ends. More about that in this group message: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/templot/message/773 There is also a lot of further discussion about timbering in this group sequence: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/templot/messages/2053?expand=1 Apart from equalized-incremental and square-on, Templot also has two further timbering styles- equalized constant and angled-on. These are intended for use when you are using superimposed partial templates, as an aid to subsequent timber shoving. (Equalized constant is also used for half-diamonds, of course.) I'm not aware that either of these styles would ever be correct for a single turnout- unless anyone knows otherwise? Secondly I am used to points being described in inch radius, I understand that I will now work in crossing angles, but is there a simple chart or a rule of thumb which tells me what the equivalent crossing angles are to 36", 48" and 60" ...

... . The reason for this is to provide a neater result when using the thick centre-lines only output option instead of diagram-mode output. But I often used the previous centre-line start as a quick way to identify the hand of a template in track plans when zoomed out. 2. So I have extended the drive slot marker on the switch handing side instead. The marker is purely symbolic, its dimensions do not have any meaning. This will also be a convenient handing marker when switches are used as partial templates in slips and tandems, etc. 3. There is a new guide mark in the turnout-road exit, at a new position called internally THDP. It is always 9ft* from the blunt nose. Its sole purpose is in the make diamond-crossing at intersection function to mark the default diagonal-road exit boundary, so I haven't given it a specific peg position for any other use. I might, if some other use or need comes to mind. If the diagonal-road exit length hasn't ...