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... your behalf! Well done John! Which of these variants would be "correct" is down to the operational requirements- What are all these lines intended to do Dave? Could you provide an overall track diagram? Just from the look of things, the second variant does not look at all "right" to me as the reverse curve in the road crossing from bottom left looks very untidy compared to the nice smooth flow in the full scissors variant. For me, the original track formation always looked very contrived whereas by comparison, John's scissors solution looks quite natural- assuming that is that all these connections are actually justified by the traffic! Best wishes, Howard. posted: 13 May 2014 19:05 from: Dave M Hi Howard, The area including the scissors crossover will be as part of a goods run round loop behind the up (uppermost) platform on Tor Giffard. Principle purpose of this runround loop is to allow freight arriving from the bottom left direction to depart in the top left direction (from the Plymouth direction and towards ...
... the original plan? Files below:Shape here Kind regardsDave L Attachment: attach_1775_2414_Iainriceplanshape Chinaclay.bgs 370 posted: 26 Feb 2014 22:26 from: davelong Box file: Attachment: attach_1776_2414_china_clay_layout _2014_02_26_2143_27.box 405 posted: 27 Feb 2014 23:30 from: Simon Dunkley davelong wrote: What do you think, Is it realistic? Do you guys think I've managed to keep the feel of the original plan? Um. Was the original Iain Rice plan realistic to begin with? Does your plan have to be so close to his for the comparison to matter? More importantly, what era are you modelling, and what railway company? What scale and track standards? What locos? You really need to find some photos of a real place in the era you are modelling, and combine it with some knowledge of prototype practice for your chosen era and company. Might be worth having a look at magazine articles, books and the old maps website for prototype track and building arrangements. That's probably more questions than answers, but responses to them would help a response to ...
... this. In other words, in your diagram the facing turnout in the Up lines is a right-hand turnout, the trailing turnout in the Down lines is a left-hand turnout. You may not need to re-align the lines by very much. Try changing to a *curviform* type of V-crossing (important) and then applying negative curving (F6) to a right-hand C10 turnout until it looks very much like a left-hand turnout. If you overlay some straight track for comparison, you will find that you can get very close to the original alignment, with only a slight sideways offset at the exit. If you attach your .box file, we can have a go at finding the neatest looking solution. p.s. I rearranged your diagram using a "code" block( {}) in the editor, which uses a fixed-width font which should look correct in all browsers. How it fares in emails is more problematic. regards, Martin. posted: 15 Aug 2007 06: ...
64. Try this for me?
... up to date with patches, and Avast! Free as the AV/Firewall, on top on the inbuilt Windows Defender. HTH Paul Willis posted: 1 Feb 2014 22:34 from: Bruce A Wilson Works fine for me WinXP Pro SP3 with all current updates, running AVG AV posted: 1 Feb 2014 22:51 from: Glen Suckling Hi Martin, I tried it in IE10 using both W7 and W8 (64bit). It worked well on both machines. I did not have time to make a detailed comparison with companion but my initial impression is that there are no problems. I do have one personal comment- At my age the eyesight is getting a little weak. I normally run IE at 125% which I can see fine. I could not find a way to zoom in or change the font size in the ewriter. Glen posted: 1 Feb 2014 23:06 from: Martin Wynne Glen Suckling wrote: I do have one personal comment- At my age the eyesight is getting a little weak. I normally ...
... this, and I think I have it working ok. It means yet more options on the sketchboard, but hopefully the default will work fine on most layout plans: 2_071211_500000000.png This option keeps the full resolution for the track templates, but allows the sketchboard items to be output at a lower resolution. regards, Martin. posted: 8 Jun 2013 12:01 from: LSWRArt Thanks Martin That looks good. Best wishes Arthur posted: 8 Jun 2013 22:47 from: Martin Wynne Hi Arthur, A few screenshots for comparison. I replaced your signal box outline with Brian's bitmap image: 2_080722_330000000.png This is the current version 207a output at 600 DPI, with sketchboard items included: 2_080722_350000004.png This corresponds to the new full output resolution option in the dialog. It produces very good quality output, but as you found it is very slow on large track plans. Any items larger than about 1200 mm (at 600 DPI) will not appear, and several error messages are possible. A well-specified computer system is needed. This is the alternative ...
... to get to grips with now, after watching the videos several times over! Have to say im very impressed! Looking at what others have done, it appears the box file holds all the details on the template, so i've found that and attached it to this post incase it helps. I decided to take one part of the track plan and just chip away at it until i found my way around, which seems to have worked! Ive got some idea this way of what the end result should be- a comparison if you like. A couple of questions though: a) at the top right of the plan there will be a 3-way point. I've overlaid two B7 points and tweaked the curvature. Am i going the right way to create a 3-way or have I miss understood it totally? I know from the video there's more to do, but wanted to check I was learning correctly to start with! b) Below the 3-way point will be a double slip, but I cannot see a ...
... These problems manifest themselves by making the Menu Choices very un-intuitive to someone not from the UK. There probably is not much that can be done about this. I just need to learn your terminology, which I will attempt to do. Further to this is the unit of measurement difference. Again, I understand that you use exclusively metric. However, it would be great to have a( mm/ ft-in) choice Preference. I can dream, can't I? These problems, however, pale by comparison to the largest problem which is the documentation matching what I see on the screen in Templot2. I watched a "getting started" video and got the gist of how the program worked. But, when I tried to do even a basic tutorial, I threw my hands up in frustration at rarely being able to find the Menu or Menu Option mentioned. I know you are working hard at trying to update the documentation. If there is anything I can do to help in this process, I would be glad to ...
... topic: 1241 GW structure gauge (1936) posted: 12 Sep 2010 10:20 from: Phil O Hi All For those interested in the GW in the current Great Western Railway Journal No. 75. Summer 2010 is an article on the structure gauge for 1936,with tables for curves with or without cant. There is also a structure gauge for the Southern Railway( Western Division) issued by the War Department for comparison of the two loading gauges during the second world war. Cheers Phil Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Off track> GW structure gauge (1936) 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 ...
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... hibernating, the hardware is completely powered down (just like for a regular shutdown). Therefore a hibernated machine uses no more electrical power than one which is switched off. Meanwhile, hibernation is a means of avoiding the burden of saving unsaved data before shutting down and restoring all running programs after powering back on. Hibernation is used in laptops, which have limited battery power available. It can be set to happen automatically on a low battery alarm. Most desktops also support hibernation, mainly as a general energy saving measure. Comparison to sleep mode: Many systems also support a low-power sleep mode or stand by mode in which the processing functions of the machine are powered down, using a little power to preserve the contents of RAM and support waking up; wakeup is almost instantaneous. The advantage of sleep mode is that resuming is much quicker than for hibernation. A hibernated system must start up, then read back data to RAM on resuming, which typically takes about ten seconds or more. A system in sleep mode only needs to power ...
... the very best to you and a sincere thank you for providing the best layout design package ever. Regards Gordon S Last edited on 2 Dec 2011 18:01 by Gordon S posted: 3 Dec 2011 01:11 from: Martin Wynne LSWRArt wrote: I do not know how much it cost in the past to buy so do not have any guideline as to prices? Hi Art, A standard licence for Templot was £46.50 downloaded. It had been at that price for over 10 years until last month. For comparison, here are the approximate current download prices of some other model track software: 3rd PlanIt $125= £80? WinRail £50 and £70 S21-ModellGleis E64= £55? Cadrail $68= £45? AnyRail £35 Trax3 £17.50 (including signalling book) XTrackCad free None of these are directly equivalent to Templot of course. The only two which are suitable for handbuilt track construction are S21 and Trax3. There have been several generous donations today, for which many thanks. I wasn't expecting donations from ...
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... picture shape dialog you should be able to find the scanned dpi to create the picture shape at the correct scaled size. It is probably either 300dpi or 600dpi.. This looks promising for my project for which I have obtained 1:2500 scale pdf. What dpi would you recommend please? Hi Les, If it's in a PDF you have to guess the dpi it was scanned at. It's most likely to have been either 300dpi or 600dpi. If you try both you can easily see whether the scaling is right by comparison with a track template. regards, Martin. posted: 19 Sep 2011 23:33 from: Tony W Hi all. I went through a similar exercise recently when I was sent a pair of scanned maps in PDF format. The trackwork ran diagonally across the pair and I used the method Martin suggested of using the PrtScn (print screen key) and pasting it into Paint (still using windows XP) and saving as BMP files. The real fun then began when I discovered that the two maps were scanned at ...
... 4 mm posted: 23 Jun 2011 07:18 from: JFS I thought this vid might be of interest...... I hope my wheels don't wobble quite that much! Best Wishes, H posted: 24 Jun 2011 20:40 from: Rob Manchester Howard, It is a good job the wheels have nice big flanges! Toy train makers used to fit their stock with wheels like these...oops, silly me, they still do. It would be interesting if anybody could post a comparison vid taken on P4 or Scaleseven to show the difference. Rob posted: 24 Jun 2011 21:07 from: Peter_Hirons I was a bit concerned with the amount of end-float of the axles in the bearings. Didn't think pin-points were meant to do that posted: 25 Jun 2011 10:15 from: JFS I was actually surprised- it rides a lot better than I expected. I think it is a great way to see how good/ bad your track actually is and agree that it would ...
... especially in regard to achieving maximum resolution? Thanks, Brian McKenzie posted: 24 May 2011 13:47 from: David R Brian McK wrote:... can you suggest best ways of using this process especially in regard to achieving maximum resolution? Resolution isn't everything: wall-thickness, detail-size, surface-finish, material strength and cost are also important design considerations. So rather than "maximum resolution" you may need to be considering "adequate resolution" in combination with the other material properties. A comparison of the Shapeways materials is here: http://www.shapeways.com/materials/material-options Every page of the Shapeways' web-site has links at the bottom to a number of useful areas. Start by reading everything (at least once) under the Support heading then browse the Community and Gallery areas to see what everybody else is doing. There are also a number of threads on RMWeb at the moment. Oh, and you will need to be fairly competent on your chosen 3D drawing/modelling software. ...
... . The first icon was derived from a PNG capture but I found the original ICO file and have now modified that with a consequent increase in quality. Regards Alan Last edited on 21 May 2011 10:06 by Alan McMillan posted: 21 May 2011 10:24 from: Martin Wynne Alan McMillan wrote: The first icon was derived from a PNG capture Hi Alan, My compiler rejected the first one as not a valid .ico file, so I edited the yellow one myself in the icon editor. It's attached below for comparison with yours. Many thanks for the idea. regards, Martin. Attachment: attach_1072_1505_tdv.ico 223 posted: 21 May 2011 10:31 from: Alan McMillan My pleasure Martin. I did find the original icon and redited and reposted it myself as the quality of the original one wasn't so good. Job done anyway. Regards Alan Last edited on 21 May 2011 17:58 by Alan McMillan Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums ...
... keep track of where your Templot data files are on disk. You can see them easily from within Templot, but finding them in Linux is a lot of drilling. It's a good idea to save your BOX and BGS files to an external drive or USB stick instead. Then you always know where they are, and they are easily accessed for email etc. cheers, Martin. posted: 14 Jan 2020 22:15 from: Martin Wynne p.s. Rob, Your screenshot applies to Mac, not Linux, and the comparison is presumably with Mac Winebottler (free). For Linux, you need to enter the 50% discount code 1901CX manually on the Linux order page: 2_141712_450000000.png The code is valid for 7 days from today. cheers, Martin. posted: 14 Jan 2020 23:28 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: I am assuming the paid for versions of Crossover are for a single machine licence- is that true? Hi Rob, Sorry, forgot to answer that bit. It's for a single user, not a ...
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