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... article/191813/nvidia_warns_of_graphics_drivers_w ith_overheating_risk.html I can't produce any such error on my ATI system, no matter how large the bitmap or how fast I zoom to and fro. I don't think there is anything I can do about this in Templot, because it depends on the way the user zooms to and fro. Nevertheless I'm grateful to Brian for starting this topic because this testing has exposed a problem with the new picture shape files in the next Pug. I had intended to change to TBitmap32 graphics stored in HCK image format for improved handling of transparency. But it's now clear that this format doesn't zoom too well, so I have reverted to the standard Windows TBitmap graphics, but now stored in a modified PNG format. regards, Martin. posted: 12 Feb 2011 14:37 from: Roger Henry I also had a PC failure after an nVidia card overheated. (Poor ventilation. System recovered after card cooled down and ventilation improved). My PC Guru also doesn't care for Nortons, nor Macafee. I use AVG, the paid up version ...
... formats being in such a mess. FBR videos can't play directly on web sites, except on Linux systems. So at present we are running the few FBR videos made so far from within Templot itself on the watch a video menu list: 2_031329_240000001.png Which is fine as far as it goes, but clearly it is not suitable as a long-term arrangement. As the list grows it will become unmanageable, and none of it is properly indexed or integrated with the Templot Companion. Fortunately EC-Software have recently developed an improved embedding option for web sites, which means the Templot Companion can be delivered with Templot and run directly from within the program instead of in your browser: 2_031329_460000000.png This has several advantages. The FBR videos, and any other tutorial utilities I might write, can be run directly from here without needing to be downloaded. The window can be resized and dragged around in front of the trackpad without affecting your main browser, and context help notes such as these: 2_031328_430000003.png can appear directly in it without needing to be modal. ...
... screen space it would avoid cluttering up the trackpad. Just a thought. Cheers, g Last edited on 20 Nov 2019 08:41 by Graeme posted: 20 Nov 2019 12:31 from: Martin Wynne Hi Graeme, That's a lot of crossing-out on your exam paper! Some things you suggest are already possible, see for example clicking on a background template and then S show in box. The info options, like a lot of Templot, have developed piecemeal over the years and are ripe for rationalisation and improvement. The problem is that there is always more to everything than appears at first sight. There is often a good reason why things are the way they are, even if I can't now remember the reason. At present we have two ways to see the info for a background template (in addition to the info for the current control template): 1. click on a background template and I information on its menu. This is displayed as HTML on a normal modal window. 2. click the info button on ...
... gauge, S7, and the rest. All of them were experienced at handbuilt track -- you could hardly then model in EM or P4 and not be, and why else would they have got themselves a copy of Templot? If I referred to a B-7 turnout, everyone knew what I meant. Things nowadays are rather different. A majority of the new users are 00 modellers, and many of them have never built their own track. They want to learn to do that to do justice to the recent improvements in 00 RTR models, and obtain Templot as the perceived first step in that direction. But if I refer to a B-7 turnout now, a good proportion of the readers are going to need an explanation of what that means, preferably with diagrams, comparison with Peco turnouts, and advice on when to use a B-6 or B-8 instead. The task just doubled in size. regards, Martin. posted: 1 Jun 2012 01:47 from: Glen Suckling Hi Martin, I am ...
... track. What the issue is that track planning has to be all done in 00-SF in templot as the turnout templates need to be right, but in reality there a slight mismatch between the plain track in templot( which is 00-SF) while the actual Layout is 16.5 plain track. It was just a thought. I don't think anyone using 00-SF IS going to build any significant amount of plain track unless for very special reasons. In reality therefor 00-SF is a" technique" for improving turnout s rather then a gauge posted: 14 Sep 2015 11:53 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: I don't think anyone using 00-SF IS going to build any significant amount of plain track unless for very special reasons. Hi Dave, The track gauge for 00-SF is 16.2mm. If parts of the layout use some other gauge, they are not 00-SF (apart from any gauge-widening required on sharp curves). If I was building a layout in 00-SF I would ...
... from: John Palmer Just installed version 2.16.b, running on Win 7 Pro, with Firefox as default web browser. Installation encountered no problems, but I wasn't expecting any since I am not actively using anti-virus software likely to inhibit the installation. I tried out each of the actions enumerated at points 6 and 7 and they worked flawlessly, so I for one am a happy bunny. One trifling point- and it may be under Blueberry's control rather than yours, Martin- is that the download progress bar could be improved by greater contrast of the colours. Mine showed dark blue 'progress' against a black background, and I had to squint quite hard at it to be sure something was happening. posted: 28 Nov 2017 13:59 from: Bruce A Wilson Martin Wynne wrote: Thanks for the feedback. What I'm really waiting for is for someone to confirm that the video links are working nicely. For example, if you go to this page (you can click help> watch a video >> >): http: ...
... wrong combination, the Peg for the notch can go on either of two rails, a left or right hand Turnout for the overlay and it is also possible to have the ctrl-4 peg aligned with either the main road or turnout road making a total of 8 possible all told (of which I think probably 2 will give workable results) and this I think is a source of much confusion, I still get it wrong sometimes and have to go back to the original two templates and try again. Inspite all the improvements/ additions Martin has added to Templot over the years this still seems to be the greatest stumbling block for many people, and I really don't see an easy way to resolve it as there are so many permutations of Tandem turnouts that automating the process (as has been done so spectacularly for irregular Diamonds) is not a realistic option. Whilst it is possible to lay down a set of basic principles the different types with the third crossing in between the running lines and outside the running lines need slightly different approaches, as ...
... : PeterD I am just putting together a layout, part of which is a Terminus with a branch line. The area I need some help with is the Down Goods crossover seen on the right of the track plan. I have to tidy up the sleepers and check rails but any comments would be helpful. Thank you Peter Attachment: attach_1511_2068_the_dale_2012_10 _03_2248_05.box 194 posted: 6 Oct 2012 00:18 from: Tony W Hello Peter. I presume you are concerned about the radius of the crossover road. You have two options to improve this. The first is to move the crossover to the left and bring it onto the straight, this will however shorten the track plan to the left of it. The other option is to use a much longer turnout for template 28 and adjust the crossover road to suit. Tony. posted: 6 Oct 2012 01:44 from: PeterD Tony W wrote: Hello Peter. I presume you are concerned about the radius of the crossover road. You have two options to improve this. The first is to move ...
... rule, there should be no gaps between the rule and the rails. It is important to get this right before proceeding as you have only two solder joins to undo if you need to move the wing rail at this stage. Once you are happy with the first wing rail the second one can be fitted ensuring that the two knuckle bends are opposite each other. If one wants to be really picky, they should be opposite a line bisecting the crossing angle. Building pointwork is an art and each one will be an improvement on the one before as we learn from experience. All the best Tony W. Last edited on 29 Nov 2015 00:25 by Tony W posted: 29 Nov 2015 01:26 from: Jubilee42 Tony W wrote: Hi Richard.... Once the vee is soldered in position, I fit the straight wing rail by tack soldering two joints checking the crossing flangeway with the Crossing Flangeway gauge and then check the alignment through the vee using a steel rule, there should be no gaps between the rule and ...
... handbuilding track. I thought Peco code 75 may be the answer to making a big layout at home, but like you, I don't really like the running qualities or the appearance. So I'm converting to SMP for plain track, I've got a lot in stock from an unfinished project from years ago, and trying to build points using the Templot OO/finescale options. ISTR asking the same questions on here a while ago about matching the Peco geometry, and to be honest it's not worth while, your running may not improve as the reverse curves on crossovers will not be any better. The answer is to go for the nearest Templot match. At least on my current layout it's not finished, so I'll be able to save the wiring loom providing I label everything and it will be a case of moving some point motors. The improvement in appearance between Peco and handbuilt using C&L components is out of this world, even in OO fine scale. I also modify the back to back spec on my stock as I buy it using ...
... you simply make it a condition of getting support that they all join this group? Having been purveyor of software for some many years, my company has always provided free support but, only so long as the customers are part of our network and they pay a great deal more for it than what Templot costs. Our customers are very happy with the way we do things and I can see no reason why Templot users should be any different. You are simply making a rod for your own back and delaying the implementation of improvements. There, that's identified my real reasons for the rant! Regards Raymond 19 May 2010 11:08 from: kenbec Peter_Hirons wrote: Jim Guthrie wrote: I just checked up on what British Railway Track uses to describe such crossings and it seems to be the phrase "crossings of unequal angle"- a bit of a mouthful. Jim. So what's wrong with calling them unequal crossings? Peter It loses its meaning if you leave out the word "angle". Ken posted: 19 May 2010 11:37 ...
32. Templot new user
... works ok if the back-to-back is tightly controlled to 29.2mm exactly with a flange thickness of 0.8mm max, limiting the range of wheels which can be used. In effect it is a reduced-gauge version of S7, which many would regard as a better choice. The best advice seems to be to ignore both 0-XF and 0-SF and choose between 0-MF and S7. 0-MF (31.5mm gauge, 1.5mm flangeway) accepts all existing G0F-Fine wheels easily and gives much improved running over the original G0G-F 32.0mm standard. S7 is the exact-scale option with its own wheels for those who want that instead. regards, Martin. posted: 9 Apr 2010 09:27 from: Brian Lewis I do not see that as a problem Steven- but rather as an asset. For all my modelleing life I have been convinced that 'slop' is the enemy of faultless running. When, back in the sixties, or was it in the seventies, the EMGS moved from 18.0mm to ...
... -- the two check rails on the diamond roads need extending, as at the left-hand end of the formation. I agree with John that it would make sense to change the upper slip road to a half-scissors. A double outside slip is a rare formation and in that context it looks out of place. In fact a full scissors crossover looks possible in the space, with the advantage that the outside roads can then be used simultaneously. It would be much easier to comment on your plans and suggest improvements if you post the .box file here. regards, Martin. posted: 10 May 2014 20:33 from: Dave M Evenin' all, File now attached to original post as requested. Thank you for your observations thus far. Rgds Dave posted: 11 May 2014 23:22 from: John Palmer It's possible to rework this in such a way as to retain an outside slip for the lower connection, but I couldn't achieve an entirely satisfactory solution. In particular, I found that one of the obtuse crossings ...
... level of interest so far I'm not sure that it's really worth it. cheers, Martin. posted: 4 Sep 2018 14:19 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Sorry you feel a little frustrated with the lack of interest in OpenTemplot Despite my programming experience in an earlier life there is virtually no hope of me delving into the code and making changes( for me or for others) ... there is too much else to do with modelling related subjects. It is anyway highly unlikely I could produce anything that improved on your monumental efforts with the code My thoughts over the past years has been that damn bus that charges round the country looking for innocent targets. Now we have a( non internet checking) downloadable version of Templot all we have to worry about is that the Windows platform doesn't change. We would all like you to take care near the roads though.... Others may have different views of course. Rob posted: 4 Sep 2018 20:39 from: Trevor Walling Hello Martin, I think you releasing ...
... evidence at Hawes because all the sleeper spacings are the same except those either side of the rail joint. The 1876 inspection report on the Settle and Carlisle line describes the (unimproved) S& C permanent way as 80 lbs per lineal yard with chairs weighing 40 lbs each. The average distance between the sleepers is 3 ft except for those next to the rail joint, which are 2 ft 6 ins apart. S.W. Johnson's presidential address to the I.M.E. in 1898 states that both the standard S and C and the Improved S& C used 24 ft lengths of rail. C.E. Stretton's article on permanent way in the Locomotive Journal in 1904, but originally prepared in 1893, confirms that the rails were 24 ft long, but adds that the principal improvement was a change in the profile and weight of the rail to reduce the incidence of fractures together with a corresponding alteration in the design of the chair. This implies that no change was made to the spacing of the sleepers. But the figures don't add up! Based on this evidence ...
36. A new trolley
... servos mounted above baseboard and just servo power below? Thats the plan but its only in my head at present, so I haven't put it down on paper to see how practical it is? Thanks for asking. Andrew posted: 17 Oct 2018 16:33 from: Tony W Chaos theory certainly seems prevalent round here. Any new horizontal surface (of which there are many) seems to disappear rapidly. I keep telling myself that with time as I gradually use the stockpile of materials acquired over time, that things will improve, but the reality is that, even with all the new cupboard storage I have, things only seem to get worse. I also have a theory that random mini black holes exist that swallow items either never to be seen again or are magically regurgitated when one has given up looking for the item and then bought another one. Regards Tony. Last edited on 17 Oct 2018 17:06 by Tony W posted: 17 Oct 2018 18:08 from: Andrew Duncan Tony W wrote: Chaos theory certainly seems prevalent ...
... : Jim Guthrie Martin, Don't like it. One of my main preoccupatuions with Templot has been to avoid unwanted copies of templates and this neww feature certainly doesn't help. Storing to background with the template colour changing was a indication that a template had been saved. I'll go back and use 0.91 since I don't think I'll need any of the latest features for what I'm doing. As a side issue, that's a minor problem with the Templot 2 situation- I can't stick with a previous version if I don't like the "improvements". Jim. posted: 3 Aug 2012 20:36 from: Martin Wynne Hi Jim, If you are getting unwanted copies you must be doing something wrong. This change is really very minor and doesn't create any more templates than before. More often than not, after storing a copy of the control template I press HOME to see it again (don't you?), so this change simply does that for you. It's very easy to hide it again if you really don't want to see it -- ...
... posted: 24 May 2007 19:29 from: Martin Wynne Hi Brian,> Why others thought that 31.2mm or 31.5mm> should be added as alternatives is totally beyond me. 31.0mm works fine with current "industry standard" wheelsets, e.g. Slater's. But problems have been found with older rolling-stock and makes of wheel. 31.2mm eases the gauge just enough to accomodate such wheels without losing the advantages of a gauge reduced from 32mm. The matter of track gauge is also closely bound up with radius. 31.5mm offers improved running over 32mm, but still allows the tight curves which some modellers are forced to use. The important point to note is that all these gauges use the same wheels, and the track gauges can therefore be mixed on the same layout, according to circumstance and location. 0 gauge is often used in the hostile maintenance environment of a garden railway, and it's not always wise to adopt the tightest possible standards in such a situation. regards, Martin. posted: 25 May 2007 19:11 from: Richard Lambert ...
... thing- why does the prototype do what it does? Surely the same considerations would apply as the crossing became flatter? Or maybe this drawing is not typical of all companies or the standard REA ones? Inversely to the previous question, might there be a good modelling reason to follow the prototype, that we haven't thought of, or haven't tried? Third, maybe this is just not important enough for you to have incorporated it, just as it was only relatively recently that you brought in the acute crossing three marks. Improving the clarity of the NLS map when making a trackplan, for example, is I'm sure a much more widely useful upgrade. Just to be clear, I'm not asking this because of the look of the thing, but because of actual running. In P4 there is at least in theory an issue of the wheels going the wrong way at a less flat angle than S4 and the prototype, and good running seems to rely on perfect alignment but with a risky short length where the wheelset is unchecked. I hope it ...
40. 3D again?
... even n gauge might be possible in a few years or maybe even less. There are exciting technical breakthroughs in battery technology that are meant to be on the horizon for both mobile computing, mobile phones and cars. One of those being solid state battery tech, which is said to offer much faster recharge rates, and much smaller, less weighty sizes of battery for a given output. Will be a little while still before that trickles beyond cars and high end phones though, but it certainly gives some hope that things could improve going forward. Remember, DCC is really a 1970s technology itself, so a new tech revolution for model trains might not be far off- whether it is a commercial success is an entirely different matter of course! posted: 15 Dec 2019 19:28 from: Andrew Barrowman Oddly enough... 2983_151427_550000000.jpg posted: 15 Dec 2019 21:31 from: Martin Wynne Andrew Barrowman wrote: Oddly enough... Hi Andy, Very oddly. A few words of explanation? You are printing the wing and check ...
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