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... timber under the crossing nose. And the spacing from the joints to the adjacent timber. This information is normally available from the prototype data. The position of the blunt nose relative to the centre of the "A" timber is set in the blunt nose menu item. timber_spacings_899x436.png More info about all this: http://templot.com/companion/timber_spacings_overview.html The switch drive mark cannot be easily adjusted. It is not intended to represent the stretcher bar, it is intended to mark the template for the drive slot in the trackbed. If it is unwanted or not in the required place it can be turned off -- untick the do> switch drive mark menu item. regards, Martin. posted: 20 May 2017 00:09 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Thank you for the reply. I hadn't understood the meaning of the V crossing customization options but now I see the way forward with this. I don't need to have the timber postions variable as such but just closer spaced than normal. From the turnout diagram you posted I ...
... likely to be made from waterproof tiling board), the paper Templot drawing and the plastic sleepers. Water based adhesives would not appear to be an option. Has anyone on this forum any ideas on how I might achieve a good bond between them? What I don't want to do is spend a lot of time and effort on track work that will eventually lift off the boards. Thanking you in anticipation. Regards Les posted: 22 Apr 2017 12:24 from: Hayfield Les How about sticking the template down to the trackbed with waterproof PVA. PVA on the board then put the paper on to it I would then carefully coat the template with varnish making the whole thing waterproof Timbers can then be laid using either impact adhesive or one of the more modern glues. Prior to laying the timbers, sand the top of the plan flat perhaps re-varnishing after the timbers are laid and stuck firm posted: 22 Apr 2017 13:44 from: leswaters Hayfield Many thanks for your reply. Some good ideas here. I understand where you are ...
... menu item. Then group> copy group to background menu item. Or group> toggle group on the trackpad as above. If none of that works, post your box file here and I will sort it out for you. regards, Martin. posted: 24 Feb 2017 13:57 from: Godfrey Earnshaw Good Afternoon Martin Perfect, Thank you. Godders posted: 11 Dec 2019 13:05 from: Gordon S Hi Martin. A quick question for you.... I'm continually printing off templates to cut trackbeds for ET and now pressed 'wipe group' twice, instead of 'print group'( I'm waiting for new glasses!). Is there a way to reinstate a group from 'wipe group'? I tried the back key and 'rebuild group' and neither made any difference, so I had to open the saved plan and go through all the group selection process again. I don't save any groups as I'm continually selecting different parts and it's unlikely I will ever need to go back again to a group. It's not the ...
... question is that I thought that by having all the baseboards removable for easy maintenance I'd not need every thing so accessible. I'm not sure now that that was such a wise decision? Kind regards Andrew posted: 11 Sep 2018 17:10 from: Tony W Hi Andrew. With my previous layout Green Street, everything was underneath. My current thinking is to have the wiring underneath the layout, but the mechanical things such as point motors accessible from the top. You may have noticed that my straight scenic boards have a trackbed narrower than the subframes, the inner side spaces is where the point motors and control circuitry will go. Bare in mind that the electrics will be conventional DC, so there will be rather a lot of it. My approach for the fiddle yard will have to be different as there is too much track on top to do that, so it is most likely that the point motors will be mounted on the outside edge somewhere with (over scale) rod linkages to the blades. PS. When I say the outside ...
... are of equal importance. If all movements from the bottom left had to go towards the bottom right, all moves from top right had to head top left and moves from the top left could still go top right or bottom right...would this allow the outline track plan of the original formation to be retained. Rgds Dave Last edited on 12 May 2014 18:23 by Dave M posted: 13 May 2014 02:21 from: John Palmer Dave, You could certainly get a layout conforming fairly closely to the original trackbed 'footprint', as shown below in skeletal form: 2129_122108_090000000.png This preserves the original alignment of the route through the pair of diamonds, but at the expense of a short lead turnout with a minimum radius of just under 4'. Furthermore, you have little or no clearance between top left to top right and bottom left to bottom right routes (haven't tested this with dummy vehicles), so no simultaneous movement over these two routes is going to be permissible. Box file for this variant attached. I've done no tidying ...
... time I was in there it was on a BOGOF offer, buy one get one free.) 160gsm paper is almost a thin card. It cuts very cleanly with a craft knife on the red lines, and the pages can be physically butted together like tiles in a way which you can't do with thinner paper. Also this way you don't have to finalise the design of the whole layout and print it all in one go. I think it is risky to leave the paper templates in place between the track and the trackbed, because you are then relying on the paper for strength, and in damp weather it is likely to lose integrity. My preferred method is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/templot/message/7652 (There I referred to 3/4" veneer pins, but having measured my stock, they are actually 1" pins.) If this is not possible or prohibitively expensive, then I am left with A4 printing on my home printer. 2. Can you select say 10 pages at a ...
... a minimum vertical curve radius of 2000 metres (6600ft) for all new work, with a minimum of 1000 metres (3300ft) for existing lines. (And an absolute minimum of 500 metres radius (1650ft) subject to a speed restriction where such a vertical curve is unavoidable.) For a model I suggest we adopt the 3300ft minimum as the ruling vertical radius, corresponding to 13200mm (43ft) radius in 4mm scale. In practice you are likely to create this by flexing a tongue of plywood (or whatever) trackbed, so the curve will be approximately parabolic rather than a circular arc, and the minimum radius will be less than this. The dimension of greater interest is the length of said vertical curve, which obviously depends on the terminal gradient. Assuming a gradient of 1:50, a vertical curve from the horizontal at 13200mm radius will be approximately 13200/ 50= 264mm (10") long. (The prototype has a minimum length of 20 metres for a vertical curve, which also just happens to be 262mm ( ...
... here is the alternative screencast link: http://screencast.com/t /yktUb8ajON Ask again if this doesn't answer your question. regards, Martin. posted: 12 Sep 2013 20:47 from: tonytopshed Thanks, but my problem is that I haven't got that white line to play with. Regards Tony posted: 12 Sep 2013 20:59 from: Martin Wynne tonytopshed wrote: Thanks, but my problem is that I haven't got that white line to play with. Oh. How about geometry> adjacent options> trackbed edges and platforms? or generator> generator settings> adjacent features? Do the platforms appear if you store the template? regards, Martin. posted: 12 Sep 2013 21:09 from: Martin Wynne p.s. Tony, the platform can vanish and be tricky to get back if you have moved it to the far end of the template and then shortened the template (F4) to remove that part. See if the platform appears if you temporarily extend the template length. You may have copied this template from a ...
... like "Yes- Continue and replace foundation templates". I find that the majority of the time I change the length of the transition curve, from both ends, to overlap the entirety of the two foundation templates and then delete the latter. One click to do all this would save time. And on the subject of transition curves, but possibly harder to implement; would it be possible to release the focus from the acceptance menu? Some TCs are much larger than the underlying templates. When showing the result, the trackbed is zoomed out to show the whole of the TC template and it is sometime not possible to see which of the left or right handed TC is correct without zooming in. Unfortunately you cannot do this until the TC acceptance menu is dismissed. But this is a minor and rare bugbear. Thanks, Duncan posted: 5 Jul 2012 22:52 from: Martin Wynne Hi Duncan, Many thanks for those suggestions. Both of those things have annoyed me from time to time too, so I have done something about it ...
... - even gentle curvature will stagger them significantly. Cut through the rail head, as far down as the web, to simulate the intermediate joints. Slide the chairs onto the rail (suggest Mozart as accompaniment!), then solder cosmetic fishplates into the web. Don't forget to group the chairs in sections first- you can't slide them past the fishplates once they're on. For electrical connection, I use brass lace-making pins (about 0.6mm diameter), pushed through tight holes in the sleepers and bigger holes in the trackbed and baseboard, then wired underneath. You need exactly two such droppers on each rail section- on adjacent sleepers so that expansion between them is miniscule, but avoiding a single point of failure. Solder the rails to these- in 4mm the pin head leaves the rail height above the sleeper exactly matching the plastic chairs, although in your 7mm this might not be the case. Splitting the chairs that go on these sleepers in half and cementing them, cosmetically, in place leaves the droppers totally invisible. The virtue of ...
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... added a dummy first item "track gauge and scale". On the other hand I have now broken the single-word convention with the print now! menu, so I could change this one to gauge& scale or maybe scale/gauge or something similar. But I rather like Nigel's idea to call it model, especially the symmetry with the existing real menu for the prototype settings. I will see if that idea grows on me. There are other purely model settings which could go there too, for example the trackbed edges menu items would fit there better than in the geometry menu. And it would be a natural home for the metric/scale calculator. richard_t wrote: Personally I think the Martin could lose the gauge menu. I was happy with old dialog box. Hi Richard, Well it's still there, at gauge> other gauges..., and also from the program panel in the session> gauge and scale... menu item. But a short list of the most common gauges seems a helpful addition, ...
... of any foam underlay. In this case, cork will be fine as it is stuck to the template and the paper acts as an insulator. The track is then stuck to the cork strip with no track pins to transmit noise through to the ply surface. This loop is hidden from view and as such will not be ballasted. Where you do have a problem with cork, is generally where the track has been ballasted to form one solid block and it is that which transmits track noise and vibration through to the ply trackbed. I'll post another pic once all eight pieces are finished. The next two are well under way as I type. I'm just waiting for the glue to dry... posted: 2 Mar 2011 17:20 from: Glen Suckling Raymond wrote: A cork underlay will make for a noise board. Why not try Brian Lewis's method of foam underlay fixed with latex and then latex your track onto that? That way you ar emore likely to hear the clackety clack of the wheels too. Regards Raymond I use ...
... -mail to you. And for the initially question – I think irregular is familiar, at least for the Templot users. René. posted: 29 May 2010 15:00 from: gsmorris Hi Martin, Please don't change the name irregular is clear and simple and understand that confusion might remotly be possible. However, many things in life can lead to confusion but here ther is little reap possibilty form the context. George Morris posted: 4 Jul 2010 18:00 from: Martin Wynne Today I'm working to move the trackbed edges function from the generator settings to individual settings for each template. This will put the settings in the .box file, and allow double-track conflicts like this to be avoided: 2_040820_490000000.png At the same time I'm adding a similar function to draw a platform edge alongside a template. I know many users are waiting for this. To minimise changes to the generator engine, I'm deprecating the old adjacent tracks function. This will be available in future only via the program panel program menu, and if selected will replace the ...
... seem to work well and MERG membership is well worth it. I'll post some pictures of completed boards in due course. Jamie Last edited on 26 Oct 2010 16:58 by Jamie92208 posted: 16 Jan 2011 19:11 from: Jamie92208 After 2 months spent running an exhibition, looking after a wife who has had a knee replacement and dismantling my old Long Preston layout I have finally started work again on Green Ayre. The next board was taken to the club on Friday and we started laying the 3mm ply for the trackbed. Then the cork goes on then we can start tracklaying again. I am getting to the point where I will have to install my turntable that i have been building, and it's approach tracks. These involve a crossing at about 40 degrees. This is too acute for using the half diamond option so I have just overlaid the tracks. Can anyone point me in the direction of how a crossing like this would be timbered as we will be getting to that point in a week or two. I have attached the ...
... it in my notebook for some time, but because of my memory problems I had forgotten all about it. I'm very sorry about that, it will be fixed in 226c program update shortly. My failing memory is becoming an increasing problem for me in supporting Templot. In the meantime there is another workaround if you don't like to have the centre-lines on. The K-crossing check rails will appear in background templates provided any other element in the rails layer is also present. The most convenient element is probably a trackbed edge, because you can make it very short independently of anything else, and it is well clear of the track. It just needs to be long enough to click on it in order to select the template easily (otherwise it would need Shift+ click on its name label): 2_231821_520000000.png Many thanks again for reporting this. The bug applies only to the trackpad and storage box, the check rails appear correctly in the output and on the sketchboard (in detail mode). There are several other bugs relating to ...
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