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... zoom and crop on the computer without losing much quality -- or any, if you are resizing for the web. And no camera shake from trying to hold a long zoom lens steady. But GPS is the one feature missing, and I'm very disappointed with the Geotagging from the Fuji app which I installed yesterday. The camera takes several minutes to establish a connection to my mobile phone, loads the current GPS data, and then disconnects. It then applies the same data to all subsequent photos (until you repeat the performance) even if you drive 100 miles. I assumed I must be doing something wrong, but reading the forums it seems that is indeed the designed working. Needless to say no-one is much impressed with it. But it seems that there are several apps which can apply GPS data to image files after the event. You record a GPS trace of the trip on the phone, which is then used to reference the creation date/time on each image file and apply the relevant GPS data for that date/ ...
22. iPlot
... an iPad or touch screen phone then most of the commands will be completely logical to you. Touch a template somewhere near the middle of what is visible and drag to move it around. Touch one end and drag the other end to change the radius. Or touch and hold both ends and drag any point in between to swell the curve. Taking that one step further makes transition curves dead easy. Touch and hold 2 points on the curve you are happy with and then drag another point to the new location and it performs the transition calculation. If you want to fit a long curvy section of track to a twisty curve you can do so by starting with a straight template aligned with one end of your twisty track. Change it to a curve that matches the first section. Then hold the beginning and end of the curved section and use a third finger (usually on the other hand) and drag to the next section of the curve. This can be repeated almost infinitely, well actually only 255 times but you'll never need that many ...
... topic: 2993 Down Loading update posted: 25 Feb 2017 15:12 from: robin hood Hi,Just tried to download an update but halfway through the anti virus kicked in and blocked the download. When I tried to open the program via the shortcut on the desktop the pc was unable to find the shortcut. Does this mean I will have to perform a new download and will all my previous track plans have been deleted? Regards Robin posted: 25 Feb 2017 15:28 from: Jubilee42 I doubt very much your files will be gone. I've used Templot through various of the newer versions and have never lost a thing. You can always find your TEMPLOT_DEV folder and see what's in the BOX folder if you're worried. Regarding the anti virus. Can't you turn it off for a bit? Which make of anti virus do you use? robin hood wrote: Hi,Just tried to download an update but halfway through the anti virus kicked in and blocked the download. When I tried to open the program via the shortcut on ...
... side I have managed to get my Micrometer ungummed. posted: 18 May 2018 18:45 from: Andrew Barrowman Hayfield wrote: Andy I am certain this is the way forward, however being a bit of a luddite we all need a bit more information/reassurance 1 Costs 2 Durability 3 Application (which glues to use) Very impressed with what I have from Off the Rails and 7 mm scale can carry the increased prices, Hi John, Probably best to wait until I get the nylon version and see how it performs. I also need to adjust the jaw model. Do you have samples of the various BH rails currently available? It would be great if you can post their dimensions. Andy posted: 18 May 2018 18:59 from: Andrew Barrowman Stephen Freeman wrote: No problem with the quality of the detail but I think the seat needs to be just a tad higher, otherwise the rail can all too easily twist out. On the plus side I have managed to get my Micrometer ungummed. Hi Stephen, Yes, ...
... can then click on stats for nerds. You can then see among the data the number of dropped frames incrementing as each one is dropped. On my system I'm seeing 10 or 11 frames dropped in total while playing your video. Every time a frame is dropped (skipped) there is a slight hesitation in a video. If several are dropped together it becomes more noticeable. I see that your original was 640 x 360 video size, so I'm going to edit your post to display at that size. This should improve performance by not requiring any resampling. Martin. posted: 10 Jun 2015 15:57 from: Martin Wynne Well strangely, at 640 x 360 performance was worse, so I have changed it back to 720 x 405. Martin. posted: 10 Jun 2015 16:04 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, Yes I am seeing about 15 dropped frames. The Frame rate spec for the camera is 30, so that can't be it. I ''m having a tinker in Youtube, will report back shortly. No improvement. ...
26. Window moving
... I get drag panning instead, complete with the "compass point" cursor. I have assumed that this is due to some slight delay between hitting F4 key and Templot actually implementing the function, so that the mouse is automatically putting drag panning into effect. Hi Stuart, You must wait for the mouse pointer to change to the hollow triangle symbol before starting a mouse action. Otherwise you will indeed start drag-panning instead. But it shouldn't be a problem -- drag-panning is a drag operation, i.e. performed with the mouse button held down. Mouse actions are best performed with the mouse button released, i.e. click-move-click. If it's a problem on your system you can disable left-button drag-panning -- untick the workpad> zoom and pan options> allow left-button drag panning menu item. You will still be able to do drag-panning using the middle mouse button (wheel button). regards, Martin. posted: 6 Mar 2012 10:48 from: stuart1600 Martin Wynne ...
27. Go slow on a Mac
... 2012 17:34 from: Martin Wynne Simon Dunkley wrote: but also of how much he values feed-back, as there may, just may, be something he can do about it. Indeed. My problem here is that I don't have a Mac and know nothing about them. Now that Templot is free I can't really afford to buy one of every different computer system just to test Templot on it. My testing of Crossover/Wine is done on a desktop Linux system, where rather to my surprise Templot performs very well. But as to how Crossover installs Linux and Wine on a Mac, and integrates them with the Mac OS, I have no idea. Both Crossover and Wine are Open Source, so it would be possible to discover such things, but life is too short to do everything. If the problem is mainly when the data-entry dialog is showing, I know what the problem is and what needs doing to correct it. That will definitely get done. If Templot runs slow or hangs at other times ...
28. Templot Crash
... topic: 1421 Templot Crash posted: 18 Mar 2011 00:51 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, I was just about to post a message asking about CPU usage while using Templot. Sometimes whilst running the program the CPU load increases by a large amount, as in :- 2001_171937_140000000.png The PC is a dual core 3.2Ghz P4 with 4GB ram running XP. Sometimes the system fan speed ramps up as an indicator that the CPU is getting hotter when performing certain tasks such as preparing a printout. I noticed tonight that if you leave the program in certain menus/dialogue boxes such as editing sleepering data or shoving timbers it also puts a heavy load on the CPU. A little later I managed to get this message :- 2001_171944_160000000.png closely followed by :- 2001_171945_500000000.png I only had the single track item on the go with no background images or anything like that. I had been playing around with rail lengths trying to figure out how to get 30' track panels with 12" joint sleepers and 10" for the rest of the panel( ...
... 30 ft by 15 ft, I have also included a concrete border of 3 ft at 4mm scale surrounding the pens. This border apparently varied from site to site, so have chosen an arbitrary value. The prototype pen post's are made of 8" x 8" timber, whilst the fencing and gates are of 3" x 3" timbers. The floor is of concrete, with drainage ducts impressed in the concrete, leading to a centrally located drain. I am a little concerned that the conversion, has not quite performed in the same way my previous image, so will send a .BMP file as well, also will send a PDF file which shows clearly what the image should look like (or how it finished up having being drawn). I am still keen to help out with the library images and will produce what and when I can. Best regards. Brian Nicholls. Attachment: attach_871_1224_Cattle_dock_30ft_b y_15ft.GIF 1183 posted: 16 Sep 2010 18:53 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Martin, Heres the bitmap file of the same cattle dock. ...
30. Lost shapes file
... need to create a new desktop shortcut for it, and you will very likely need a new lock-release code. regards, Martin. posted: 31 Jan 2010 21:02 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: On my Vista laptop, I've installed Templot in C:/Users/Paul/Documents/. It works perfectly! Hi Paul, I'm really surprised that Vista lets you run an executable file from a documents folder. But we all know that Mr Gates moves in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform. If you do run into trouble, the first thing I would do is to move Templot to a folder not owned by Windows. regards, Martin. posted: 1 Feb 2010 00:30 from: Glen Suckling Martin Wynne wrote: I'm really surprised that Vista lets you run an executable file from a documents folder. But we all know that Mr Gates moves in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform. Hi Martin, I have several compiled dBASE executable files (* .exe) that are scattered over my ...
... pre-existing settings for the control template are lost. copying a template to the control means that the stored specification is copied from the storage box to the current control template settings, but no changes are made to the storage box. Any pre-existing settings for the control template are lost. make the control means that Templot first does store& background for the current control template settings, and then does delete to the control on the selected background template. This is just a convenient shortcut for the user, instead of performing these two operations separately. There are a lot of functions called make... which work similarly by performing a store& background before modifying the current control template settings. Last Saturday for the first time I attempted a live-screen broadcast of Templot being used, and you can see me using these functions to assemble a track plan in this clip: http://flashbackconnect.com/Movie.aspx?id=30h3au1S5O6j0LbfPFi7sw2 As a presentation it leaves a lot to be desired, but I think it may make the above ideas ...
... actually need circles for the switch positions? Simply locating them at the start (foot or is it heel?)of of each turnout would look tidier. Different circles for them are making the panel plan look rather cluttered. Regards Trevor posted: 19 Jun 2020 18:35 from: Gordon S Thinking about it a push button could offer a momentary pulse, but the polarity would be the same. A momentary switch with a centre off would offer a reversed polarity pulse. I suspect you would need two push buttons to perform the same role. posted: 19 Jun 2020 19:21 from: Martin Wynne Trevor Walling wrote: the start (foot or is it heel?)of of each turnout Toe. Martin. posted: 19 Jun 2020 19:25 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: Thinking about it a push button could offer a momentary pulse, but the polarity would be the same. A momentary switch with a centre off would offer a reversed polarity pulse. I suspect you would need two push buttons to perform the ...
... . Every click saved is one less stab of pain!! Templot is actually a great problem for people that don't like mousey things because virtually everything has keyboard shortcuts- something that many large corporations could well take note of! Now I know Templot is a hobby program, so if it becomes painful to use I can go onto something else, but that's missing the point. I bought it to use it! Cheers posted: 2 Apr 2009 11:18 from: Brian Lewis Here we go again. Almost a repeat performance of what Dave Long said a week or two ago. Folk, who as far as can see, who makes no positive contribution to the model railway world that I know of, suggests we are lazy. If you had bothered to read the contributions so far you would have seen that most of them were positive and were aimed at two objectives, i.e. to make Templot easier to understand and to create more time in planning trackwork/ less time fighting the programme. There is simply no point in adding enhancements to ...
... you have not used 1 in 50 gradients with your stock on a previous layout you might want to run a few experiments, particularly with curved track. yes thanks. having looked at it, i dont need that much clearance, the 1 in 50s would give 200mm roughly. i can reduce that and have gentler gradients. posted: 18 Feb 2020 16:08 from: Phil O I have taken the liberty of altering your terminus as per my earlier proposal and tidied up your platform roads. I think you can also perform a similar exercise in the fiddleyard as each road appears to be on the same radii. A further couple of proposals would be to add a crossover to the headshunt road and the adjacent platform road, unless you propose to shunt the yard with the train loco, I would also add a crossover to the branch station, to allow any loco hauled trains to run around. Cheers Phil. Attachment: attach_2995_3613_charlton_junction _2020_02_18_1546_53.box 122 posted: 18 Feb 2020 20:26 from: ikcdab Phil O wrote: I have taken the liberty ...
... will be hard against that rail, and will interact with the check rail (guard rail) in the usual way, rather than with the wing rail. You've quoted 00-SF as having "better running" than full gauge 00 many times. But the only difference is negative gauge widening thru turnouts. What's your reasoning on that? Jim's explained this. We observe that 16.5mm works on curves down to train-set radii without any widening. So we conclude that 16.5mm already includes some gauge widening, and for better performance on gentler curves we remove that built-in widening. But the main performance improvement comes from reducing the crossing (frog) flangeway gap. To keep things symmetrical* we need to use a similar size for the check rail (guard rail) gap. Adding that to the check gauge (which needs to remain fixed to avoid changing the wheels B-B) we arrive at the track gauge. Happily these two approaches both arrive at the same track gauge -- 16.2mm. And when tried, it turns out ...
36. Download size
... loaded. I know that in the original version of Delphi, a basic "Hello World" program was about 250K but if you did a lot of hacking you could get it down to 10K. I suspect that you have done all your own Windows handling and have programmed in the minimum necessary to make Templot work, hence your measly 1.5M. Jim. posted: 24 Jan 2008 23:44 from: Paul Boyd Years ago I worked for a company that made parallel-processing supercomputers. These were plain black boxes that performed miracles in terms of sheer processing power, for their day. Then they wanted to sell to the American market. "But it's got no lights!" So the next generation had lots of flashing lights and scrolling displays and it sold quite well, despite these lights performing no real useful function. So yes, I reckon people buy things not based on their actual function, but based on how much function the item apparently has. With software, if it's a huge download it must be a super-duper program ...
37. 0-XF or 0-SF?
... scale, 31.0mm could easily still be used and 0-XF files would still reload as 0-XF. I'm glad you are getting good results with 31.0mm, but I think Jim Snowdon (who originally proposed the sub-32 gauges) and the Gauge 0 Guild are both now agreed that 31.2mm (0 -SF) is the smallest recommended gauge, and that 31.5mm (0 -MF) is a better choice for a wide mix of wheels. The main purpose of the sub-32 gauges is to improve the performance of all existing fine-scale wheels. If you are going to say that only certain wheels can be run on your track, it would seem to make more sense to go to S7. Can I ask what size of flangeway gap you are using? If you use 1.2mm flangeways with 31.0mm gauge, the check gauge will be only 29.8mm. With wheels at 29.2mm back-to-back that leaves only 0.6mm for the flange thickness, otherwise the flange will hit the nose of the vee. Even Slater's wheels have ...
... dp/B007VOY874/ Provided you keep the cap on the bottle, and don't get any metal swarf or filings in it, it will keep for a few years. It will also tolerate slight oil contamination of parts, which is good if you are using rail as supplied from the wire-drawers and haven't degreased it. The snag is that they are not recommended for use on plastics (obviously one of the components needs to be metal, otherwise it won't cure). However, I think that refers to high-performance industrial plastics, I have used them to stick metal to plastic before now (although not specifically rail to chairs. Anyone?) cheers, Martin. posted: 18 Apr 2018 00:36 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Thanks for the usefull info. I have a couple of bottles of thread-lock types in my tool store that I have been using for many years- that explains why they haven't set hard yet. I used to use one of them on the Land Rover suspension nuts and bolts each ...
... computer is feeling the strain& (although trying to postpone it for a year) I am considering a more powerful one. I will use my local computer supplier (either in U.K. or U.S.A.) to build one. None recommend using Vista yet- stick to XP which still does the job. They do not advise an up-date, but a new one...& that advice is genuine, not to earn extra money (it will cost twice as much, but will not be out of performance in one year as would an up-date). All the peripherals would be kept. I understand that AMD Athlon is best for games/videos& Intel for "professional" type work. A quote received using an Athlon 940 dual core, Sumvision 500W ATX PSU, LG 18x DVD Writer, 3bay enlight, 300GB 7200rpm Sata II hard drive, MSI K9N6SGM-V& 1024MB PC5300 DDR2 is £425.37 incl. V.A.T. To go to the maximum performance (have not had a quote yet) would currently ...
... the switch tip, so that the two meet before the tip of the switch is able to reach its intended position. Nigel posted: 16 Nov 2007 00:21 from: Keith Norgrove Bruce Boldner wrote: By the way, for P4, what gap would you recommend between the tip of each switch blade and it's adjacent stock rail? I've been using the same gauge I use for the flangeway gap in the common crossing, ie .68mm, but have been told this is too fine. That is most certainly underscale and performance will be marginal as you found. In UK prototype the standard figure is 4.25 inches, which in 4mm scale gives you just under 1.5mm. in special circumstances such as track inlaid in pavement this can be reduced to the 2.5 to 3 inches found at the end of a checkrail flare but not down to the flangeway dimension unless the track is fully checked using tramway style rail. Some railways increase the switch opening above 4.25 inches and most UK/US style point machines are designed to work up to 6 inches. Other ...
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