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41. MERG DCC system
... know any thoughts or owners experiences on the MERG kits for a DCC command station and handset as reviewed in BRM last year. It would make joining MERG worth it to get a full feature system for a very reasonable price. Some of the kits for signal and turnout control sound interesting too. Regards Rob posted: 22 Oct 2017 10:50 from: Charles Orr Hi, I have been a member of MERG for at least the last 10 years, Templot even longer. I have built a full CBUS DCC system, comprising a handset, command station and boosters. I use it to control my still evolving layout. I started many years ago with a ZTC system, changed to Lenz and now CBUS DCC. I'm very happy with the precise, flexible control it provides and would thoroughly recommend it. So for me it's TEMPLOT for track and MERG for control. I'm also one of the kit elves and put together the HECTOR train detector kits. Got to keep busy in retirement. Best regards Charles posted: 22 Oct 2017 22:29 ...
... Thanks and best regards, Rick Attachment: attach_2389_2985_No7.check.wing.ra ils.JPG 310 Last edited on 22 Feb 2017 02:30 by Rick posted: 22 Feb 2017 17:36 from: Martin Wynne Hi Rick, This dialog, at real> adjust check rails... should perhaps have been called "shove check rails": 2_221214_240000000.png The intent is similar to the shoving of timbers, i.e. final adjustments which can be made to individual check rail ends when customizing a specific template -- usually when it is part of a complex formation comprised of multiple partial templates such as a tandem turnout. Generally there should be no need to use this dialog when creating an ordinary single turnout. To set up the check and wing rail settings for that, you can click unadjusted settings... button on the above dialog, or more usually you would click this menu item: 2_221217_380000000.png Ideally you would do this at the start of a design project, because at present there is no "modify group to match" function for these settings, it will be necessary to ...
... a scan of a proposed layout into Templot 2 so as to be able to draw up the track templates. I have been able to save a scan in bmp format which I believe is the first step- it has been scanned at 300dpi and is drawn to a scale of 1" to 1'-0 "; but I cannot find any information as to how this can be loaded onto the sketchpad. The baseboard size is overall 99" x 24" and is in 3 sections, and from left to right comprises a traverser 14.5" wide, and 2 boards 40" wide and 44.5". The scan is for a layout 6'- 6" x 1' 9" and I intend to extend it to fit the available space and I am working in P4 gauge. Can anybody out there tell me in very simple terms how this could be done- I normally work with Apple Mac computers and am not all conversant with PCs. I have a small laptop PC bought for this job but I find it very difficult to ...
... topic: 2038 Disappearing sleeper/chair numbers on printout. posted: 3 Aug 2012 17:10 from: Jerry My attempts today to reprint a crossover comprised of 4 templates seem to have lost some of their timber/chair numbering. I tried reprinting the whole trackplan with the same result. After I had completed my plan I printed a whole set of A3 pages on 07/05/2012 according to Martin's printout dating scheme. I kept those as masters. The numbering is as expected. Is this me or has something happened in the updating. Any ideas welcome. Jerry posted: 3 Aug 2012 18:19 from: Martin Wynne Hi Jerry, Is it just the timber numbers (text) which are missing, or some parts of the actual template(s )? Are they all missing, or only some? If only some, are all the missing ones on the same template? Are you using the same computer and same printer as last time? Are you using the same printer page size, printer resolution and settings ...
... of options Here is a brief screenshot tutorial. This is for Templot2 version 213a. Please do not try to follow this if you are still using an earlier version of Templot. Your model gauge/scale must be set in Templot before you begin. e.g. EM. Don't forget this. 1. Start off by clicking this background> background images- help menu item. 2_160711_100000000.png You will then see this: 2_131128_200000001.png Click the background shapes button at the bottom. A background image is called a picture shape. It is comprised of two components: a container rectangle, having specified overall dimensions and a specified position on the trackpad, and a raster (bitmap) image which is stretched to fit inside it. This is loaded from an image file, from a scanner or camera or wherever. It's important to understand these two separate components, because the container rectangle may sometimes appear empty, and it is possible to change the image which it contains without changing its size or position. After clicking the background shapes button, this dialog will appear: ...
... fixed radius curve, or follows a defined transition curve. That in turn means that vehicles can run along it without a speed restriction, at the maximum speed allowed for the whole line. On the other hand, vehicles following the diverging turnout road are suddenly deflected to the left or right as they reach the switch when running in a facing direction, or leave the switch when running in a trailing direction. Consequently they are subject to a speed restriction when taking the turnout road. The switch is the part of a turnout comprising the moving points (the movable rails machined to a sharp point). The facing direction is the direction giving a choice of routes, i.e. from left to right in the above diagram. The left-hand end in the diagram is called the "toe" end of a turnout. The right-hand end is called the "heel" end of a turnout. (Imagine a side view of a human foot.) The turnout road can diverge to the left or right from the main road, regardless ...
... It's a late 80's, early 90's modern image layout based on the idea of a freight only line that ends with a set of exchange sidings. Freight arriving here will be shunted into smaller length services to be tripped to a business park/trading estate (off layout). Due to major expansion, it was decided to add a small station/halt to service the business park. There is also a siding on the layout which I've called Timber, but may well be domestic coal or oil etc. So the layout comprises the following Main arrival road with run round loop and engineers siding. Three siding roads with kick-back road for Timber/Coal/Oil. I've tried hard to eliminate the parallel tracks to avoid the "Train-set" look; quite tricky on a fairly narrow board. The line on the Right hand side that extends past the 2880 marker is the sole exit to the fiddle yard (2880 being the length of my scenic boards). This is my first attempt at a layout plan using Templot. I'm ...
... one percentage point I have brought my other shots within permitted limits whilst preserving such quality as they have. Here we go... Switch viewed from heel to toe: 2129_231947_370000000.jpg Switch viewed from toe to heel:2129_231950_190000000.jpg General view with replacement on bank alongside:2129_231955_190000000.jpg View from the bank:2129_231956_500000000.jpg Partial view of knuckle showing Y, X, A, B, C, and D chairs:2129_231959_120000000.jpg Those North British chair castings are quite distinctive- a pity nothing resembling them is available to the modeller. The switch arrangement comprising 4 pairs of slide chairs appears from my observations to have been widely adopted on NBR lines over a wide range of leads. It hadn't previously occurred to me that the track looks as though it has just received a coat of varnish. One of my abiding memories is that it was, as the Irish say, a soft day, with plenty of mist and low cloud hanging on the Moor, so that everything was well watered. Another memory is that we were beset by thick clouds of midges. At the time ...
... much greater detail than the calculator provides. However, as you found Templot is currently biased towards UK prototype practice. You can prepare templates for any prototype, but non-UK ones need to be fully customized. You will find the prototype data in David Honner's file very useful for that. "England and America are two countries separated by a common language." Indeed. In this context the most important point to grasp is that in the UK and Templot, a "switch" is ONLY that part of a turnout comprising the moving points, NOT the whole thing: startup_pad.png The 28" inner radius you quote is not an input you can use. You get to that figure by starting with a turnout curved to 30" radius in the main road, and then modifying the size of the turnout until the desired inner radius shows up in the information panel. The size of a turnout is adjusted using the F5 mouse action, and by zooming in close you can get a very fine adjustment. The size of a turnout is the combination ...
... Turner posted: 22 Jan 2009 18:20 from: Alberta, Thank you Alan i will have a go. posted: 22 Jan 2009 22:29 from: Martin Wynne Alberta, wrote: I have just copied the 3 way tandem turnout that Martin has added to the forum. Now my question is how do I use the template& add it from the boxfiles to the plan I am working on. Hi Alberta, To add it to your plan you use the add from file function. The tandem turnout is comprised of several partial templates, so you need to set it up as a group of templates in order to keep it all together in one piece. You can change an option on the storage box so that it is added as a group automatically. To join a group of templates onto one of your existing templates you link the group to the notch, so that the group follows movement of the notch. It's important to cancel the linking when you have got the group where you want it. I have made a scruffy ...
... : 8 Jan 2009 16:34 from: Mike Pogson Richard Spratt wrote: Great. Does the jigsaw style joint mean that you could effectively you could produce a jigsaw puzzle for a whole layout? I know it would be a pointless waist for long sections of plain track! Roughly how much would it have cost me If I'd sent you the DXF file? Richard Hi Richard, Yes, a whole layout could be produced as a jigsaw puzzle. I have used Templot to draw the track formation for Bournemouth West. This comprises of 19 turnouts, 2 Scissors crossings and one double slip. I shall be cutting the track bases as a jigsaw puzzle, complete with plain track. Costs: There are two elements to the cost of custom bases, one is the cutting element, and the second is computer time to arrive at the cutting profile. I charge A$40 per hour for computer time. For the example given (Curved scissors crossover), computer time was about 30 minutes. So A$20, or at current exchange rates 9GBP. Cutting cost ...
... many 'standards' to choose from posted: 22 Dec 2008 03:50 from: Richard Spratt Paul Boyd wrote: Does that mean there's a problem with the way Templot creates DXFs, or is there a setting that should have been, er, set? I'm getting the impression that DXFs are like gerber data for PCBs- so many 'standards' to choose from Yes, there is a fundamental error in the way that the DXF files are generated. Rails are drawn as 6mm straight lines. Which means a 1m long curve comprises 664 individual lines, rather than 4 curves. Fortunately sleepers are drawn as 4 straight lines, but they could be drawn as a rectangle. This all means that the DXF file is horrendously big. Over 7MB for Awrhyllgwami which is really no more than 6 turnouts and 8m of flexitrack: http://www.scalefour.org/demuchallenge/awrhyllgwami/awrhyllgwami.htm posted: 22 Dec 2008 04:07 from: Martin Wynne Richard Spratt wrote: Yes, there is a fundamental error in the way that the DXF files are generated. ...
... imported the OS slip box file onto on of my early attempts and tried to move it into position but only succeeded in actually moving a part of the overall template. Regards, Jim posted: 15 Nov 2008 18:10 from: Martin Wynne JimH wrote: Would the same apply on a slip also? I imported the OS slip box file onto on of my early attempts and tried to move it into position but only succeeded in actually moving a part of the overall template. Hi Jim, Yes, group the templates comprising the slip by dragging the group-selection fence around all of it, then use notch-linking to move it. Unless you have several identical slips, it saves work to leave adding the slip roads until after you have finalised the track plan design. Until then work only with diamond-crossings while track planning -- so you can change the curving and angle without wasting any work. You can quickly overlay a bit of temporary plain track if you need a reminder about which diamond is a slip, until you ...
... letter (A, B etc). Thanks in advance. John posted: 27 Sep 2008 16:39 from: Martin Wynne Hayfield wrote: Please could some one help with terminology please, where the description is for a seven foot switch, does that relate to the switch length and not the crossing angle. If so what is the difference between a switch having a title in feet and a switch being described by a letter (A, B etc). Hi John, A switch is the portion of a turnout comprising the moving point blades, not the entire turnout, like this: startup_pad.png The switches which are designated by length in feet (9ft, 12ft, etc.) are loose-heel switches (meaning that the point blade pivots when it moves). The quoted length is either the actual length of the point blade to the pivot. Or it's the length measured to a designated geometrical heel position a little way back from the actual pivot. The switches which are designated by letter sizes (A, B, etc. ...
... be easier simply to widen the width of the trim margins. Click the print> trim margins> set custom trim margins... menu item. Click all the? help buttons for more explanation. Here are the general notes: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- Setting Trim Margins Templot prints trim margins (normally in magenta-pink) around all four edges of each printed page comprising your template or track plan. Trimming is necessary because very few printers can print to the extreme edge of the sheet of paper, or position it with great accuracy before printing on it. By trimming each page along margin lines which are printed as part of the drawing image you are assured that the pages will fit together accurately. Templot normally sets the trim margins to use nearly all of the printable area on each page. However, because printers and paper sheet sizes vary, this usually means that the trimmed page dimensions ...
... topic: 801 Unusual use for bullhead track posted: 4 May 2009 18:11 from: Martin Wynne Here's an unusual use for a couple of lengths of bullhead track: defford.gif© linked from: http://www.merlin.ac.uk/about/layman/merlin.html The 25-metre MERLIN radio telescope at Defford in Worcestershire, formerly part of the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. "The equipment comprises two mobile and steerable radio telescopes with parabolic reflectors of 25 metres aperture designed to be capable of operating at high efficiency at any wavelength from several metres down to 10 centimetres. The radio telescopes can be moved along double sets of railway tracks placed on two of the runways of the former Defford airfield. The tracks extend to 750 metres from the intersection, and the baseline joining the radio telescopes can be set along any azimuth and have any length up to the maximum separation of about 1000 metres."© extract from 'Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern (Reports of Observatories)' in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 7, p.232. ...
... you are using soldered track construction. E is a scrap of rail or metal strip temporarily soldered across the vee rail ends to improve stability while sanding. It can be left in place until you are actually building the track, and then the surplus vee rail ends are trimmed back as required. V is the result after making two cuts on the sander as shown. The bulk of the metal can be quickly removed with a coarse file or metal shears before finishing on the sander. The end result is an accurately aligned vee comprised of solid rail at the nose. All that then remains is to fettle the tip and blunt back the nose, as noted previously. I have extracted the above notes from this topic: topic 273 which covers the same subject from the point of view of machining vees on a mill, rather than hand filing. Hope this helps. regards, Martin. posted: 10 Mar 2008 20:03 from: Alan Turner Brian Tulley wrote: However, whilst I have no concerns regarding filing the mating faces of the Splice ...
... the paper before use. Whether it should then be left to cool, or used hot, is a moot point. Anyone? The problem is likely to be worse during the winter months because of the generally damper atmosphere. Paper stored somewhere warm and dry for a few weeks and then kept in a sealed container should work better. For a single template the precision you are getting is perfectly adequate, because as you say all actual track construction is done using gauge tools. The problem arises when you have a large plan comprising several sheets in several rows and you want to fit them accurately together. Odd half-millimetres can add up and throw things out of alignment. As an alternative to the "official" means of calibrating the printer, you could try printing templates with a 50mm grid and measuring the grid lines. You can then enter the calibration factors by trial and error until you get the best average grid spacings across the full sheet. Generally I recommend using an ink-jet printer rather than a laser printer to get the best ...
... topic: 277 Start-up pad view posted: 6 Dec 2007 22:02 from: Martin Wynne I have re-done the old start-up pad view image on the web site. Templot beginners might want to refer to this for the basic terminology. It's especially important that users in the USA understand that in Templot, as in the UK, a "switch" comprises only the moving point blades section, not an entire turnout. Otherwise Templot becomes unintelligible. startup_pad.png regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Start-up pad view 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 ...
... you are using soldered track construction. E is a scrap of rail or metal strip temporarily soldered across the vee rail ends to improve stability while sanding. It can be left in place until you are actually building the track, and then the surplus vee rail ends are trimmed back as required. V is the result after making two cuts on the sander as shown. The bulk of the metal can be quickly removed with a coarse file or metal shears before finishing on the sander. The end result is an accurately aligned vee comprised of solid rail at the nose. All that then remains is to fettle the tip and blunt back the nose, as noted previously. Hope this helps. regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Off track> Milling Crossing Vees 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 ...
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