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161. Templot Web
... have plenty to get on with on Templot as it stands. But most of the Templot code, including all the maths stuff, is available open-source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opentemplot/ So if someone wants to re-write it for the web, they can. How about you? cheers, Martin. posted: 24 Feb 2020 22:28 from: Ian Bunch Funny you should say that... I'd like to have a go. Perhaps it's something that could be developed in tandem with the open source version? posted: 24 Feb 2020 22:34 from: Martin Wynne Ian Bunch wrote: Funny you should say that... I'd like to have a go. Perhaps it's something that could be developed in tandem with the open source version? Hi Ian, Sure, but at present the activity on open-source Templot3 has reverted to nil. Do you want to see the T3 topics? See: topic 3539 cheers, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable ...
... I find it a real head-scratching job (could be an age thing of course...) Many thanks and Best wishes, posted: 16 Nov 2014 23:39 from: its_all_downhill Just reporting back that all is running well now and viewing fbr file. Have to say this is a great improvement and I think a great addition to the new starters and some of us less new users.. So simple to use and looking forward to the next update. If I could put a vote in for a tandem point for next vid as this is something I still struggle with and think that the fbr treatment would unblock this. Regards Tom posted: 16 Nov 2014 23:49 from: Martin Wynne Hi Tom, I'm glad you got it working. Thanks for reporting back. Yes, tandems are on the list. Also the picture shapes for Howard. But first I think I must do something for beginners to replace the 15-year-old track plan tutorial. I've had so many false starts on that over the years ...
... topic: 867 Bug in Slide with numeric input? posted: 12 Jun 2009 20:09 from: richard_t I wanted to make a tandem matching one of those in Standard Railway Equipment (c9/b8). The toe of the b switch is 29'6" from that of the c switch. So I placed a b turnout on top of the c turnout with the fixings pegs of both at the right point (ha ha!) and then hit F9, and then clicked in the little window to enter the right value. But instead I got to move the peg, and not the "slide value". Not what I expected. edited to make more sense- it's a been a long day Last edited on 12 Jun 2009 20:10 by richard_t posted: 12 Jun 2009 22:12 from: Martin Wynne richard_t wrote: edited to make more sense- it's a been a long day Hi Richard, If that's making more sense, what was it like before! Seriously, it's all working as intended. If entering ...
164. Another one lost
... later so you can show it off at the Saturday meet. Then the panic sets in. "I can't get this to work, it's no good". At the moment I can't get into the Windows side of my HD as Windows 7 has developed it's famous "I can't find your profile problem". But as I am replacing the HD on this machine in the next month I'll wait. But when I can boot up Windows I will spend some time in Templot playing with different leads and crossings, and practicing tandem formations as I may actually have to build one for the layout. Yes there are little bits of Templot that can be obscure initially, but find me a program that doesn't have that problem. But you join the forum, make sure you get the messages as they come through and read, read, read. Read the forum discussions, even if you don't fully understand them. Read the various 'How to guides' even if they aren't completely up to date. Read the help instructions, when all else fails. ...
165. Track interest
... topic: 1014 Track interest posted: 16 Jan 2010 16:40 from: Martin Wynne There's an increasing interest in trackwork nowadays. Especially in this tandem turnout: tandem turnout -- Leeds Central Martin. posted: 18 Jan 2010 22:21 from: RJLeslie911 Here is another interesting one that I photographed in Lincoln. cheers Richard Attachment: attach_729_1014_track-Lincoln.jpg 208 posted: 19 Jan 2010 00:42 from: kenbec RJLeslie911 wrote: Here is another interesting one that I photographed in Lincoln. cheers Richard Richard, This is great, the track is almost exactly what I have drawn for a small station on the continuous run part of my XtrkCad plan, the whole picture is right on what I pictured in my mind. Now I have something I can actually see and use to develop this section. Thank you. ken Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Track interest about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A- ...
... topic: 3679 templates missing on diagram output posted: 25 May 2020 10:51 from: ikcdab I have produced a plan and created a pdf output in diagram mode for use in coreldraw planning. For some reason, parts of my tandem turnout are always missing. i have tried it innumerable times. I have attached the pdf to this message and my box file i will add in a moment. any suggestions? Thanks Attachment: attach_3074_3679_charlton_junction _pages_2020_05_25_1045_06.pdf 74 Last edited on 25 May 2020 10:53 by ikcdab posted: 25 May 2020 10:52 from: ikcdab and here is my box file Attachment: attach_3075_3679_charlton_junction _2020_05_24_2328_39.box 88 posted: 25 May 2020 11:02 from: Ariels Girdle The missing piece of track is set as the control. You need to create a piece of dummy track off the main layout and set that to control before doing your PDF posted: 25 May 2020 11:19 from: ikcdab Thanks for the suggestion, but that doesnt work for me. i had already thought of that. attached is a box file ...
... Gem track was fibre based as in your pictures. Likewise Welkut, Wrenn and others. When Peco grabbed almost the entire market overnight with their new plastic-based track, Gem introduced a plastic-based turnout with cast rails as in your example. From memory it was 32in radius. It was not a great success for the reasons you found. The timbering was much closer to UK practice than Peco. Did I get the terminology right (interlaced) please? That design of 3-way turnout is usually called a tandem turnout in the UK. The term "interlaced" usually refers to the use of separate plain sleepers instead of long crossing timbers under a turnout. However, I have seen tandem turnouts referred to as "interlaced", and they are known as "lap turnouts" in the USA and elsewhere. Track terminology varies a lot. regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Share and show> 3 way ...
168. Changes in 219b
... /templot.com/companion/basics.php page. cheers, Martin. posted: 16 Mar 2018 16:31 from: David Long Martin, I have been doing the same actions since the disc/paid for days and today I found that the system appeared to react differently. Hence me asking the question. It isn't a problem if Templot is working in the way you expect it too. I'm too much of an enthusiast not to just get on with it! By the way, really please about the updates for slips and tandems. Excellent! David posted: 16 Mar 2018 16:45 from: Martin Wynne Hi David, I'm glad you like the slips and tandems. I'm sorry if I didn't explain things properly. There is no difference in the way Templot works. But there may be a difference to the way it is displayed on the screen, depending on your chosen options. To revert Templot to appear unchanged on the screen from before 219b, 1. turn off the option for bold timbering on the most recent background template: 2_051711_130000000.png ...
... rails for conflicts. Trevor. posted: 19 Feb 2014 15:44 from: Martin Wynne Trevor Walling wrote: I used the ruler tool where Martin has circled to ensure the clearance was sufficient. If you are using REA switches A, B, or C *, a handy rule of thumb is to align the switch drive slot on the second switch with the stock rail joint marks on the first switch: 2_022021_120000000.png (These switches are facing right to left. In practice the stock rail joint will be moved for a tandem construction.) *The trouble with posting rules like this is that I can guarantee that someone will skip that bit, try it on some other switch, and then post a question about why it hasn't worked. Just to repeat, this rule of thumb is for REA switches A,B ,C only. regards, Martin. posted: 19 Feb 2014 16:00 from: Hayfield Trevor Walling wrote: Hello John, You need to have the two turnouts with one common route dimension.One slides over the other to ...
... but I am considering trying it in p4 as well, but am not sure yet with all the pros and cons to take into account. My may concern is how the timbers are arranged around the point work, If someone could run there eye across it and check it is all "do-able" that would be fantastic or any pointers for improvements etc Thanks again Josh Attachment: attach_673_964_New_Idea.box 357 posted: 27 Oct 2009 15:39 from: Martin Wynne Hi Josh, I'm afraid you have made a common mistake with tandem turnouts. The two switches are not far enough apart. As a result there is insufficient space for the second switch blade to open behind the first switch rail: 2_270959_040000000.png On the prototype the blade opens by 4.1/4" which scales to 1.42mm in 4mm/ft scale. Even in P4 it's advisable to increase that to 4.1/2" (1.5mm) to ensure adequate flange clearance all along behind the open blade on flexible switches. In 00-SF or EM you will probably need even wider switch opening. ...
171. Templot user guide?
... Phil O Hi Martin, I have had what is probably either a Eureka moment or more likely a moment of total lunacy, with regards a Templot user guide. Produce a couple of videos, the first is to show how to build up the templates for a basic BLT, with a main single sided platform with a loop, a short bay platform and a few sidings. This would give the beginner the rudimentary basics to get started. Then a more comprehensive video, importing a map, with more complex trackwork, including tandems and slips, double junctions etc. Possibly including a shed with a turntable. I think that would cover most formations that any modeller would need to produce a layout. And finally one showing how to produce mixed gauge trackwork. I think that would cover virtually all the eventualities we are likely to encounter. It might help if you explained where necessary the prototypical reason for such and such was done in a particular way, or your reason that Templot works that way. This is only a suggestion and no more than that ...
... topic: 3439 Lewes Station early 1900's posted: 26 May 2019 10:49 from: roythebus Found this interestin pic of Lewes on a Facebook group. There's a nice tandem with outside slip. Attachment: attach_2836_3439_60385037_10156412 328496909_7235413923883646976_n.jp g 229 Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Prototype pics> Lewes Station early 1900's 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, all the files submitted to this web site are copyright and the property of the respective contributor. You are welcome to use them for your own personal non-commercial purposes, and in your messages on this web site. If you want to publish any of this material elsewhere or use it commercially, you must first obtain the owner's permission to do so. The small ...
173. Broad gauge oddity!
... topic: 3801 Broad gauge oddity! posted: 23 Oct 2020 07:58 from: Phil O Hi All I have just come across this photo of Plymouth Millbay in broad gauge days, when I first spotted it I thought it was a tandem with a single slip, but closer inspection revealed it to be a standard turnout with a single slip. I still don't fancy building it, a couple of those 'V's look a bit small, even at full size. http://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/854276623049612105/?nic_v2=1a13uHclb Cheers Phil posted: 23 Oct 2020 08:26 from: Dave Summers Here's a link without the need to use Pinterest http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/plymouth/millbaystation.htm Dave Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Prototype pics> Broad gauge oddity! about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first- ...
... , remember to plug it in to the same USB socket before clicking the list. cheers, Martin. posted: 8 Oct 2020 22:18 from: roythebus Thanks everyone, I found the bgs file in the "downloads" on Mac, clicked on that and it appeared by magic. I relly ought to write these things down. I've just had a couple of hours playing with the Annington track plan. Old Frank Dyer used some pretty tight curves on his plans in places. There's a double slip and double sided tandem in the loco yard which just wont work as they're down to24" radius with less than a 1 in 5 crossing angle. I'll keep tinkering tomorrow when my eyes have had a rest. One problem with doing track plans on a macbook is the screen is rather small and I have to keep shuffling the page around. I'll have to borrow my partner's dek top mac which has a much larger screen. Having said about Frank's plans, he used the tight radii on Borchester et al to good use and they worked. ...
... useful but it looks kinda nice on the smallest setting. Rob posted: 13 Dec 2017 00:38 from: Martin Wynne Thanks Rob. I will post a summary of the changes shortly. Martin. posted: 13 Dec 2017 08:58 from: Charles Orr Hi Martin, Looks great on my 34" widescreen monitor Charles posted: 13 Dec 2017 10:40 from: Alan Kettlewell Hi Martin, That's great. Got all the buttons in one row by reducing the program size. And I just followed your new tandem video using the new functions- worked perfectly and took only a few minutes. Many thanks Cheers... Alan Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Templot update version 217a now available. 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 ...
... this. I recently did a design for a chap but he says that some of the pages won't print. Anybody any clues. Attachment: attach_2835_3436_shipston_on_stour _2019_05_17_0742_16.box 142 posted: 21 May 2019 12:02 from: Martin Wynne Stephen Freeman wrote: Good Morning, A strange one this. I recently did a design for a chap but he says that some of the pages won't print. Anybody any clues. Hi Stephen, In detail mode or diagram mode? See this: topic 3435 (I see that the plan includes a tandem turnout.) On which make/type of printer? -- see this (long 2-page topic): topic 1540 cheers, Martin. 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> Templates not printing 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 ...
177. more Xplains
... that in 223b.) Whereas with an Xplain I'm in total control of it on the Templot server. No external web sites needed. It can appear directly on the page in the Templot Companion, with other Xplains and notes. And it's not fuzzy -- at least not if your browser is set to the dot-for-dot zoom level. Or it can be embedded directly in the Templot program, without needing an internet connection, similar to the many embedded help notes. So for example you might click make tandem say, and (if wanted) an Xplain could pop up directly in front of the trackpad to show you how to do it, while you copy the actions needed. No need to rearrange your screen windows to show Templot and your browser side-by-side -- assuming you have a screen wide enough. Whatever, as you know I've been agonising about different formats for years -- while there are still massive gaps and unfinished business in the Templot Companion. It's time I made a decision and stuck to ...
... playing.) For a prototype map what you do need is enough understanding of prototype track to interpret the map. Unless it is a large scale track plan from the railway company, it is likely to have been drawn by an OS surveyor on the ground rather than a permanent-way engineer in the design office. So for example it is likely to have the switch toe position marked (blade tips) and the crossing nose position, rather than the rail joints, and for some complex formations such as outside slips and tandem turnouts, quite often the surveyor gets the rails a bit muddled. This topic discusses determining turnout sizes from a map: topic 3095- message 22216 topic 3095- message 22326 For some notes about matching the radius of a template to a background map or other guide, see: http://templot.com/companion/swell_function_ctrl_f10.php You may also find the wrap function relevant: http://templot.com/companion/wrap_picture_shape_to_curve.php The original topic about the automated background maps function is here: topic 3051 The relevant bit for screenshot ...
179. No room for chair?
... topic: 3764 No room for chair? posted: 11 Sep 2020 22:43 from: Julian Roberts Hi Martin I'm building the tandem you very kindly designed for me for my Kyle project. I wonder if the prototype had this problem. I'm going to send the running rail, with no chairs, sailing over the end chair here (on the right hand crossing) that keeps the wing rail and V together. It'll be hard for the 4mm track workers to fix if it needs fixing. But I think it won't! 3591_111721_270000000.jpg 3591_111721_270000000.jpg posted: 11 Sep 2020 23:05 from: Martin Wynne Hi Julian, You need a bolted half-chair. There's a picture on the Scalefour site: http://www.scalefour.org/resources/trackdetail/chairs03.html http://www.scalefour.org/resources/trackdetail/chairs04.html Modelled by cutting a slide chair in half. Martin. posted: 12 Sep 2020 11:06 from: Julian Roberts Hi Martin Light dawns as always, thanks to you! On the photo the wing rail chair is difficult ...
... 2_182013_060000000.png It's made up from 8 partial templates. Without your rather murderous reverse curve in the standard-gauge, it could probably be done with fewer. There is still the timbering to do of course. But it's rather more than your optimistic "dropping in" as you can see. To explain it fully from scratch is going to take me two or thee of hours of writing notes and making videos, and I'm afraid I just don't have time at present -- poor Bernard is still waiting for his metre-gauge tandems. All I can suggest is that you become a bit more familiar with Templot and working with partial templates on something simpler. There is an old video in this post about partial templates, but unfortunately unless you have Flash installed you won't be able to see it: topic 706- message 3967 I will try to get a new one done soon. cheers, Martin. posted: 19 Sep 2019 07:35 from: RedgateModels Yes that's exactly it 8 partials, wow. Yeah I realise that what I'm after is ...
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