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... topic: 3685 Kyle of Lochalsh- comments welcome posted: 31 May 2020 08:06 from: Julian Roberts Hi I've made a track plan for my intended layout, drawn exactly on the map as far as I am able. I wonder if this is as satisfactory as I think it is!? It's all done using the "beginner" tools but it looks fine to me- or maybe there are some improvements that can easily be made before I start actually making the trackwork? The only thing I know needs to be done (apart from finishing plotting one track into the shed) is putting in missing timbers on the 3 way turnout. I don't know if I can attach more than one file. I'll post again with the other file that Templot sent to my computer at the same time. Attachment: attach_3077_3685_Kyle_track_layout _complete_30_may.box 112 posted: 31 May 2020 08:08 from: Julian Roberts Julian Roberts wrote: Hi I've made a track plan for my intended layout, drawn exactly on the map as far as I am able. I ...
... be made slightly wider by cantilevering the front edge so that it protrudes forward rather than in line with the lower level. (Apologies, I have just realised there is a small error on the above plans, the red line linking the lower level to the upper level has stopped short. They should be joined). The problem I am facing is that the length of the platforms is being compromised by the complex approach pointwork which at present is all standard straight points and double slips. Martin has suggested this could be much improved by customising the pointwork and building new curved points to move the entry further back, even moving it onto the adjacent board through 90 degrees. The problem I have is that I'm still really learning Templot and this is really throwing me in the deep end! Martin has very kindly drafted the basic plan but has suggested I place the plans on the Templot forum to see if you fancy a challenge! Of course if you really feel brave, any main line terminus design would be seriously considered. It should have 5 platforms ...
... topic: 652 Admin: Web search functions posted: 3 Dec 2008 19:37 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, As you may have noticed, I have been experimenting to improve the search functions here on Templot Club and on the Templot web site generally. You may like to try searching using this link: experimental search You can choose to search Templot Club forums only, or the Templot Companion pages only, or all together in one go. For the Templot Club results, the search terms will be highlighted on the page and the page will scroll down to the first occurrence (not yet working for the Templot Companion pages). You may like to try comparing the results obtained from the above link, with those from the existing Search button at the top of this page, and reporting any obvious discrepancies. I'm hoping the new system will be an improvement, but it still needs some tidying up before it's ready. (The "Sort by date" option isn't as useful as it looks, because it puts the Templot Club results ...
... with Templot (only used it for the past 14 months) and only just starting to get the hang of it, I had so far resisted the urge to get an advanced copy, and to join the development team. However, since the TDV installs separately, and having received, one might almost say an invitation to do so, and having reflected upon what has been said and written over the last several days about the new pug and TDV, I have decided to give it a go and see what changes/improvements to the program have been done and how easy it will be to use the program in the future. Also if I can be of assistance in providing feedback, good or bad, that will help further improve things. I'm sure I shall find a way of bending or breaking it. Having stated the above, I hereby gratefully request that you add my name to the list of the development team, and I make the following declaration: I confirm that: a. I will not share the downloaded code with anyone ...
... you would expect, it's in the diverging turnout radius between the heel of the switch and the V-crossing. When inserted in a 1000mm ruling curve, diverging to the outside of the curve, the resultant diverging turnout radius in such a situation is actually greater than that at 1484mm. The smaller radius of the two is in the main road at 1000mm, so Templot shows that as the "minimum radius now". That's actually a very ugly turnout. If it is not part of a crossover it can be much improved by changing to a curviform V-crossing instead of regular, which increases the turnout radius to 2510mm. Changing to a 9ft switch instead of an A switch is a further improvement, and the turnout radius is then 3635mm -- more than double the original 1484mm. regards, Martin. posted: 9 Feb 2011 08:55 from: Gordon S Martin Wynne wrote: That's actually a very ugly turnout. It's OK Martin, I was just experimenting with the idea of having a 2m diameter circle and using it as ...
... so I am assuming it is the 768Mb of RAM which is causing the performance problems.) On an unrelated note but relating to the design of my railway, I have been looking through the Forum and noticed that for EM gauge, the recommendation seems to be for 36" minimum radius for the track. My available room is 11'6" by 6'5" so a 36" curve is problematic. I have previously built finescale OO using K&L /C &L components and their flexible track but although it is an improvement on typical RTR track, the sleepers are still too long (relative to the gauge) to my eye and I like the idea of EM as being a suitable compromise as I feel that it could theoretically be a regauged version of OO with improved flangeways and appearance. I appreciate that this is quite a simplistic view but I was hoping for the dockyard branch I would be able to get track nearer to 20" radius (with transition curves) and very tight radius points on the quayside. The line will be operated ...
... point rail D is as A but of the opposite hand, notched with a file to receive C. Assembled splice rail C is as B, soldered into the notch in D. Use high-temperature solder because the rail gets hot while sanding. If necessary stop and dip it in a jar of cold water. Using high-temp solder also reduces the risk of it coming apart later if 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 ...
... can fit them in. I want to be able to buy the required gauges to make the track. I will be buying C&L components. Comments please. Rob posted: 27 Feb 2011 23:13 from: Martin Wynne Hi Rob, 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 G0G-Fine "industry-standard" wheels easily, and gives much improved running over the original G0G-F 32.0mm standard. The narrower flangeways look much better too. For some track pics of a large layout using 0-MF, see: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/blog/253/entry-1422-heyside-trackwork/ Richard is a member of this parish, see: topic 911- message 5256 I'm sure he would be happy to comment on his experience of 0-MF if you contact him here or via RMweb. However, I'm not sure ...
49. hello
... thirteen years ago, I was not aware of st Enoch station before, though looking at the age of the shopping centre and the surrounding developments, it makes sense. Ian posted: 6 Nov 2020 06:46 from: Ian McKee Phil, Yes, but unfortunately I can't fix that just now. The loft has no insulation, or ventilation. Summertime temperatures can get unbearably high when it is sunny. We don't get as much sun as other places, but it is s concern. We will need to do some improvements at some point as the roof ridges are old and tiles probably needing attention. But the expense is beyond us now. Ian posted: 6 Nov 2020 06:54 from: Ian McKee Hayfield wrote: Ian Stainless steel rail has come in for some bad press recently, especially when trying to solder it I assume you are talking about C&L's ST baseplates, before investing too much in too much track It will be worthwhile seeing if they are compatible. At one show we sold quite a lot of rail as ...
... . So I have been looking at some of the original code for the screen drawing, which has been unchanged for many years. I have made some changes to speed up screen re-draws when zooming and panning, with much better results than I expected for large track plans. This change will be in the next program update 218d shortly now available. It will be interesting to have some feedback on this for different systems, processors and screen sizes. Separately from that, I have added yet another menu option, to improve the response when working on large track plans. Often in such cases all the current design work is taking place in a small area, despite the plan being much larger overall. I thought it would be helpful to be able to tell Templot to ignore temporarily all background templates outside a specified rectangle. This doesn't make any difference when working zoomed in to that rectangle of course, but if you happen accidentally to zoom out too far on a large plan, it can take a while for Templot to catch up with the ...
... and all the superfluous junk taken out. In addition I have added many more screenshots of the operations involved and the results of those actions. If you have the time please give this document the once over and perhaps try using it. I will appreciate any comments you care to make. Have fun give it a try !! All the best, Brain Nicholls. Attachment: attach_1038_1451_How_to_Construct _an_Irregular_Diamond_Crossing_v2 .pdf 302 posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:29 from: Raymond I have now had time to go through this new version; much improved and should prove invaluable to newbies for an elegant way to produce curved diamonds. Regards Raymond posted: 19 Apr 2011 10:47 from: Brian Nicholls Raymond wrote: I have now had time to go through this new version; much improved and should prove invaluable to newbies for an elegant way to produce curved diamonds. Hi Raymond, Many thanks for your most appreciated comment. I sincerely hope the instructions will be of help to others, that's the reason for publishing. All the best, Brain Nicholls. posted: ...
... any need to keep the old version once you have Templot2 please? Hi John, You paid me for the old version. It runs without needing an internet connection. Templot2 is free. It doesn't. If you ever need to use Templot where you have no internet connection, the old version will work just as before. Nothing about it is changed by installing Templot2. Templot2 will work without an internet connection only if you selected the Hibernate function when previously shutting down your computer. However, Templot2 contains many new features and improvements, so there isn't really any reason not to use it whenever you can. Do they have separate icons, if not how do you go from one to the other please? Yes, there are two desktop icons. They both use the same yellow hard-hat symbol, but the old one is labelled "Templot" and the new one is labelled "Templot2". regards, Martin. posted: 7 Apr 2013 22:39 from: Hayfield Thanks everyone for the quick answers posted: 10 Apr 2013 14 ...
... to change all the shortcuts when the Caps Lock is on. This would immediately double the number of available shortcuts. Except of course that they are not short cuts, if you have to remember to go round the Wrekin first. Also the Caps Lock is currently used for Shift-clicking on the name labels. regards, Martin. posted: 19 May 2011 20:06 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin They were actually working in 091c, although I have changed some of them. So they were! It's a vast improvement to actually see the shortcuts though, but I agree that the underline would be better if Mr Gates had though this bit through properly! Likewise on the shove timbers dialog. All the buttons have accelerator keys and using the keyboard is 10 times faster than clicking them with the mouse. Now in Windows 7 you can't even get the underlines to show by pressing ALT. I had noticed that in Win7 but remembered most of them. Could you make the relevant accelerator key a capital letter instead, so restore tiMber for instance ...
... work and Templot for us to play with. Regards...Sonnie posted: 8 Mar 2008 14:35 from: Graham Idle Hi Martin, For some time I have been an armchair modeller, but I have now found enough room for a small P4 plank. This, and other forums, is the way I have kept my finger on the pulse of what is happening in the modelling world around me. I, very much, like the look and feel of this forum. If the new version is an improvement on this one, then I will be very pleased. Regards, Graham posted: 9 Mar 2008 22:33 from: richard_t This forum is much better than Yahoo!- no adverts for a start. I'm seeming to like non Yahoo based forums more and more. (Recently a friend wanted to share a photo with me via flickr, which is now owned by Yahoo. I had to sign into Yahoo just to view the picture! and if I didn't have an account I would have had to create one ...
... and I found it really easy to use, scroll with the mouse wheel and clicking the image makes navigating easy. I will be trying it later with my new Windows 8 laptop and multi-touch touch pad to see how that works. Much easier than the videos, as you can take as much time as you need with each screen. posted: 26 Jan 2013 23:25 from: Martin Wynne Thanks for all the feedback on this. The response has been generally positive, so I have been tinkering with some improvements: 1. The image size is now constant. This is going to be a bit restrictive in making the screenshots, but avoids the need for scrolling to and fro. 2. I have added an audio track to each page: 2_261755_000000000.png At present it is set to some plinkety-plonk music for testing. But in future I'm hoping to add a voice-over explanation on some of the pages. This is 100 times easier to do for a static image than trying to synchronize a spoken script with moving video ...
... . You say... "What you must not do is make the knuckle bend too sharp, as shown by the red line. This is guaranteed to cause problems." I am interested in this as I'm up to my neck in crossings of one kind or another for Yeovil Pen Mill and am bending the knuckles just with parallel jawed pliers which give a much sharper radius than the one shown in the drawing. So whilst the Great Western may not have used such a gentle radii, I'm wondering if I might improve the running qualities if I tried to produce a gentler bend? If so do you have any recommendations as to how to do it? Kind regards Andrew posted: 4 Sep 2017 22:09 from: JFS Hello Andrew, We did discuss this at Scaleforum- amongst a million things... On the real thing, the radius of the vee in feet was equal to the number of the crossing- ie a 1:9 crossing would have wing rails bent to a nine foot radius- which is pretty gentle ...
57. Changes in 217a
... to help with the creation and alignment of the additional V-crossing in a tandem turnout. For full details see: topic 3152 There is a scruff video showing the new functions in use at: http://flashbackconnect.com/Default.aspx?id=iYbIr74flWmgsI_8hlsXQQ2 6. The zoom to fit functions have been modified for a better fit on wide screens. For more details see: topic 3143- message 22997 Thanks to Dave Turner for reporting this issue. 7. I have done some further work on the SK5 video downloader to improve error-checking and improve the visual appearance (on Windows). regards, Martin. posted: 15 Dec 2017 07:17 from: Godfrey Earnshaw Hi Martin, I am a little puzzled by the operation of the "Main-Road exit" function. It allows the lengthening or shortening of the main road but it appears to do very strange things: If the turnout is inserted in a length of track then the main-road exit can only be shortened, in which case, the sleepers are left in ...
... further "Create custom plain track in slot one as suggested." please, how do i do this step? I will make a bit of video shortly showing that. Hi Ian, I have now made a video showing that process. It's here: http://flashbackconnect.com/Default.aspx?id=qowk_v1qYTGHwUYFkPDgzA2 When it pauses, read the notes and then click anywhere to continue. If you click the Download link below the video, it should download in FBR format and open in the Templot Video Player, with much improved image quality. cheers, Martin. posted: 6 May 2020 02:48 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: Would it be possible in a future update( ie not now or this week/month but when you have the inclination) to show the total lengths of plain track and turnout timbering as two figures rather than rolling them into one. Hi Rob, This is now implemented in version 226a, see: topic 3659 Sorry it took 2 years to get here. cheers, Martin. posted: 6 ...
... checking clearances, and unfortunately as you can see you have some significant conflicts on these curves: 2_271638_330000000.png It does depend on the actual size of your rolling stock of course. Short 4-wheel coaches may clear on these curves, but bogie stock would need to be very narrow to clear. I notice also that you are using the traditional GOG-F track standard. Most track builders in 7mm scale have abandoned this nowadays in favour of the 0-MF standard (31.5mm gauge, 1.5mm flangeways). This gives much improved running through pointwork with modern wheels such as those supplied by Slaters, while still accepting older wheels without problems. See for example: topic 1811 topic 1394 and lots of discussion on RMweb about 0-MF. regards, Martin. posted: 27 Apr 2016 23:27 from: RK Martin, Many thanks for your response, and for the welcome. Yes that was what I was afraid of. I'd used the make double-track option within the software to create the curves, and just assumed that it would ...
60. Go slow on a Mac
... Simon Dunkley wrote: It is a desktop iMac In that case I'm a bit puzzled, because running on a Linux desktop here is fine. Is the iMac known for overheating problems? I know nothing about Macs. Have Apple crammed everything into the smallest neatest box they can find, leaving no room for decent ventilation? Martin. Quite possibly. Let me put it this way, I downloaded a small tool which enables me to control the speed for the HDD, ODD and CPU fans, which has generally seen a marked improvement in things. the Mac is a few years old now, bought in the days when people got such things as annual bonuses, and has had its memory upgraded to enable the latest OS to run. It may be getting a bit past its best before date, but this particular issue is not new- it had gone away for a while, but has come back, so I finally thought I would mention it! I also have issues with bringing dialog boxes to the front, for example if I delete a ...
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