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... topic: 2734 3D Printed Track and Turnouts posted: 9 Aug 2015 05:18 from: Andrew Barrowman Greetings fellow Templotters, As some of you already know, I've been messing about trying to print turnout bases on a 3D printer. It's fairly easy to create a 3D model of the timbers in CAD from any Templot template. It's also fairly simple to drag models of the chairs into the correct positions and orientation and combine them to produce an STL file to drive a printer. What is not so easy is producing 3D models for chairs that a) actually work, and b) don't look too horrible! I think I have reached a point where I'm limited by the printing technology itself. The results are actually a lot better than I thought they might be when I started out. Anyway, I've been making some wild guesses about chair dimensions, and I have not had a lot of luck finding anything on the Web. Any information would be greatly appreciated. (Here's a bit of track I've been using to test the latest chair ...
... topic: 2547 Building Yeovil Pen Mill in EM posted: 3 Oct 2014 22:50 from: Andrew Duncan Hello Martin, one and all. I've uploaded some images of my progress on the trackwork for Yeovil Pen Mill so far. Progress has been pretty slow of late as I'm building the shed where the layout is going to live as well at the moment and this from scratch, so until that is finished further track making will be limited. The photos are all of the MPD between the junction. I'm going to try to lay it and ballast at the same time which the more I think about it the more nerve racking it is. I'll report back once I've summoned up the courage to put sleeper to wood glue... 2787_031707_450000000.jpg Early stages with most of the timbers in place and some rail laid in. At this early stage I was constructing the crossings in situe. I've now copied the idea of a chap on this site who makes all the crossings bonded to the wing rails with thin brass strip unsoldered underneath which makes ...
... topic: 2326 Yeovil Pen Mill in EM- curves of varying radius posted: 3 Oct 2013 21:36 from: Andrew Duncan Hello Everyone I've been trying to get nice flowing curves on this plan that I'm proposing to build with a degree of success but I'm not completely happy with the result. You can see clearly the dogleg at the double junction top centre left of the plan and I am wondering if there's a recognised way of dealing with this varying type of curve in Templot 2. The track is just 2 templates so far, and I've used a transition curves in both to get to this stage. I've been wondering if I need to split up the main lines into smaller sections to have greater control as the radii changes, or will that just produce more doglegs at every join? Any advice would be gratefully received. Many thanks Andrew undefined 2787_031623_180000000.png posted: 4 Oct 2013 14:18 from: Phil O Hi Andrew I would would start a new template from about halfway between the double junction turnout and the cross over turnout and ...
... topic: 3342 A new trolley posted: 16 Oct 2018 22:59 from: Andrew Duncan My adoring and patient partner of the last 26 years was beginning to make noises; no not about the" Dali_esque" statue on the end of our dinning table. 2787_201843_250000000.jpg that you might more readily recognise as number 5 board of Yeovil Pen Mill, but about the clutter on top of my Ikea tool chest that sat not far from the table. To be brutally honest it was getting to me a bit as well, as I never had the soldering iron, the DC controller, the DCC power amp, the ZTC 511, the Resistance soldering stuff, the power amp for the Megapoints etc etc in the right place at the right time. It was a pain constantly juggling stuff around which I was finding very frustrating So when I said that I was building a trolley to put all this stuff on it was met with a smile and raised eyebrows. This I took as a good sign. So I spent a happy few hours this weekend ...
... of drop around them. Over the years various editors of the Munro tables have added mountains to the list and taken mountains off, for rather subjective reasons. Also, there's a band of enthusiasts going around using the latest satellite techniques to determine whether borderline 3000' mountains are over or under that height. The sixth Fisherfield Munro was found to be a fraction under, so was "demoted" to be a Corbett. Who cares, it's a fine mountain anyway. Nigel posted: 27 Feb 2018 22:36 from: Andrew Barrowman I was trying to get a good shot of the chairs, but somebody parked his big engine on the spot. 2983_271727_590000000.jpg Shot with a prototype Pentax Optio S4 posted: 27 Feb 2018 22:44 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: Was your SLR a Canon by any chance?( or a Contax if you were rich). 49mm was a Pentax size, 52mm for Nikon etc. P.S. If you use a rubber lens hood you can 'distort' the hood with your hand while shooting if the ...
... great addition to templot! posted: 17 Jul 2018 08:12 from: richard_t I've been doing similar, in 2D, using my cad program- I think I'd go slightly crazy doing a full plan, even though the chairs are blocks so they just need putting in the correct place. Attached is a simple A6 turnout, without the crossing chairs- it's a PDF, as the PNG I generated looked awful. Attachment: attach_2700_3307_a6-chairs-test-Model.pdf 289 posted: 17 Jul 2018 18:31 from: Andrew Barrowman richard_t wrote: I've been doing similar, in 2D, using my cad program- I think I'd go slightly crazy doing a full plan, even though the chairs are blocks so they just need putting in the correct place. Attached is a simple A6 turnout, without the crossing chairs- it's a PDF, as the PNG I generated looked awful. Hi Richard, Did you draw it all in CAD or did you import a DXF from Templot? Andy posted: 17 Jul 2018 18:38 from: richard_t ...
... topic: 2601 Diamond-crossing on a transition curve for Yeovil Pen-Mill posted: 22 Dec 2014 14:15 from: Andrew Duncan Hello Everyone I've been trying to get another siding (sed to store the branch line coaches)into the plan of Yeovil which has involved starting from scratch two diamonds that Martin originally did for me about a year agao now. Whilst it's true that I've come on a long long way from those early days with Templot ,to my slight frustration I couldn't re create the first of the two diamonds at the north end of the platforms(top right on the plan) that comprise the line from the down Platform across the upline to the goods shed. I've been able to create diamonds else where but none of these has been on a transition curve. Do I need to first make a turnout, get that aligned and then create a half diamond after that? Can anyone give me some pointers or tell me where I can read up on this(ideally an illustrated version as I'm not too good with ...
... lead) secondly, reading the scalefour notes on loose heeled switches, there can be an issue with the stock rail to switch clearance with the switch is open, this would be exacerbated in oo-sf, is this the case, would it be better to stick with fixed heel? any hints on how to make the Joggle, I havent worked out reliable way to do this( 0.2mm joggle) thanks dave Last edited on 13 Feb 2019 13:42 by madscientist posted: 13 Feb 2019 20:29 from: Andrew Duncan madscientist wrote: I have always built semi Curved bullhead track, but now I have to build some GWR( WR) track work and this means loose heal switches and joggles in 4mm,( 00-SF) other then a slightly different geometry, is there any practical difference between loose heal and fixed heel switches. I would have thought both would have been made from a continuous piece of nickel silver track with cosmetic fishplates Am I correct here, or should the switch be physically cut at the heel?( ...
... topic: 3271 Exactoscale track parts and turnout kits posted: 16 May 2018 15:54 from: Martin Wynne Announcement today from Andrew Jukes: http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p =60948#p60948 from which: "Exactoscale track and turnout kits will also be taken away from C&L and will form a separate product group, also overseen by one person.Timescales here are likely to be long as there is a large volume of stock to be disentangled, sorted and organised. Some components may need to be ordered, with the lead time that implies. I am pressing for priority to be given to the sorting out even if that means more products being unavailable in the short term." posted: 16 May 2018 19:42 from: Rob Manchester Hi, Would some kind Scalefour Society member( ie who can post on their forum) like to ask the following of Andrew Jukes to give some guidance to users of his track components: What are the timescales involved in moving the range away from Phil? Does he ...
10. Posted by email
... , but now in my opinion rendered useless. Yes I know that there are people out there who might love this but dare I say it these are nerds who like the challenge, I just want to use it to design layouts (and I have done 4 so far, that have been built), could I please go back to original purchased version that I understood and could use when I wanted to and where I wanted to. Sorry and all that but a great programme but now unfortunately no use to me. Andrew Shillito posted: 24 Jun 2012 12:39 from: Dave M Martin, As a newcomer to Templot early this year I'd like to compliment you on a superb (if developing) product. Yes, I spent many hours 'getting to grips' with the program and I still have a lot to learn but my experience so far has been extremely rewarding. Many thanks also to the fellow Templot users who have assisted with the development of the Torr Giffard trackplan so far. My Toshiba laptop with its Windows 7 operating system ...
... topic: 3063 Beginner 2nd (or 3rd) time around posted: 15 Aug 2017 11:18 from: Andrew Howlett Dear Martin& fellow Templotters, I purchased Templot 0.74A on 28/09/2002 and did have a go at learning it then, but have forgotten 99% of it since! I've now started a new project- ordered the shed, booked a builder to lay the concrete foundation, booked the electrician, and drawn the track plan on the back of an envelope (designed around Peco 0-gauge track. Last night at the club I was told I should be building my own C&L track, so I guess I should be drawing up the plan in Templot as well. If there is anyone who can spare a few minutes give me a nudge into the right menus in those new dark unknown areas that were not even a twinkle in Martin's eye when I first started, I should be most grateful. Firstly I need to draw a 24ft by 13ft rectangle (the shed), followed by a second ...
12. 3D again?
... said to offer much faster recharge rates, and much smaller, less weighty sizes of battery for a given output. Will be a little while still before that trickles beyond cars and high end phones though, but it certainly gives some hope that things could improve going forward. Remember, DCC is really a 1970s technology itself, so a new tech revolution for model trains might not be far off- whether it is a commercial success is an entirely different matter of course! posted: 15 Dec 2019 19:28 from: Andrew Barrowman Oddly enough... 2983_151427_550000000.jpg posted: 15 Dec 2019 21:31 from: Martin Wynne Andrew Barrowman wrote: Oddly enough... Hi Andy, Very oddly. A few words of explanation? You are printing the wing and check rails in situ? Are they filled in below, between the timbers? How does that look ballasted? What about the vee nose? Those look more like FB baseplates than BH chairs? Does that means the rails can be dropped in rather than threaded in? And glued ...
... topic: 3746 Motorizing those pesky points. posted: 20 Aug 2020 04:45 from: Andrew Barrowman I don't know about you but I'm genetically programmed to spend as little as possible on anything, model railways included, and particularly anything to do with setting the direction of points (turnouts if you prefer). My target is to keep it down to less than $3.00 (call it 2.00 GBP) for each point. That pretty much rules out just about every commercially available option. Sure, servos are cheap, but you can spend lots of money on fancy electronic servo controllers that don't even work all that well and end up spending far more than that. Absent a freely available supply of ex Post Office relays (as previously used by Martin) an alternative is the cheap and cheerful SG90 radio-control servo. Considering how good they are they are incredibly inexpensive. (But they do have a couple of issues which this does address.) If you are happy to accept that all your point servos rotate their horns through something like ...
... Return Curve to the Goods Shed Access Road on both Maps is shown as running Parallel to the 'Main'. Photographs from the period of interest show a "Slew" in the Track, I assume that this so that a Locomotive can take on Water whilst standing on the Goods Shed Access Road, at the same time as keeping the "Main" Clear for the arrival and departure of the Auto Train. Last edited on 15 Oct 2018 17:55 by David Higgs posted: 15 Aug 2020 14:21 from: Andrew Howlett Dear Martin, Sometime ago you produced a template in P4 for the engine release crossover at Moretonhampstead using a 25inch OS map as the background template. The turnout details were 18ft heel switch (straight) 1 in 9.98 RAM (1 in 10.00 CLM) adjacent track centres= 44.83mm That equates to standard 6ft-way. Unfortunately, Moretonhampstead was built to broad gauge. On conversion the platform road would have had the rail furthest from the platform slewed towards the platform by 27.75 inches and later standard gauge photographs indicate the ...
15. F7 snapping
... first start Templot, but forget occasionally. It can also catch you out when downloading someone else's Box file and they haven't turned it off so it comes back to bite you at some point down the line. It does make life easier for beginners and perhaps the not so beginners!, so I would not like to see the option removed entirely. I think this is a good compromise. Regards Tony. Last edited on 27 Aug 2017 16:51 by Tony W posted: 19 Sep 2017 22:22 from: Andrew Duncan Hello everyone I on the other hand was a bit at a loss without it, as I don't know what the alternative is to make two templates line up correctly! So when it didn't work after pressing the F7 key I wondered if I'd inadvertently changed a setting somehow and went looking for clues. In the end I searched the forum for snapping. Happily I came across Martins thread only the second item down on the search and was relieved that there was still access to it via the beginners keys at the top ...
... some scope for 'bending' the design to fit within a trackplan or produce more prototypical formations. 2001_181949_260000000.jpg The above is an example. I have a catalogue from a few years ago and the instructions mention bending the base and heating with hot air to keep it in place while the rails are threaded Not sure how practicable this would be for EM turnout production. The bases are injection moulded but if a sufficiently flexible material could be found they may be suitable for 3D printing Rob posted: 19 Jan 2019 08:45 from: Andrew Duncan Hello Rob Do the Tillig ones really work is my first thought? Have you used them yourself? Interesting idea as it would be really nice to be able to lay point work that is all on, say gentle flowing curve, and all straight out of a box! I'm enjoying building my own track, but from a time point of view this would speed up things enormously, obviously! Having said that, with what the EM Gauge Society has now produced, it's now possible to make up a small Iain ...
... for goods line signal arms on signal box diagrams. They can all be resized, stretched and rotated as before. And can be outlines, infill, or both, in any colours you wish, with adjustable transparency. For the arc and ring, the inner radius can be set as a% of the outer radius. Setting zero for this produces a full arc sector -- useful for coloured pie diagrams. 2_011318_400000000.png In the next program update. regards, Martin. posted: 7 Apr 2015 19:50 from: Andrew Duncan Martin A couple of small questions 1. When I tried to invoke the Sketchboard it comes up with a dialogue box saying "Canvas does not allow drawing" and won't, as a result, allow me to add any shapes to the layout plan. 2. Somehow I've now got long 45degree angle lines dissecting my plan( bottom left hand corner) and when I first load the plan it comes up very small indeed. What have I changed that makes it do this...? Box file attached kind ...
... topic: 3180 Slab and Bracket Construction posted: 9 Jan 2018 22:23 from: Andrew Barrowman Are there as many bracket castings as there are crossing angles, or is the bracket and the bolt perpendicular to the wing rail with the holes in the slab drilled to suit a common bracket casting? posted: 9 Jan 2018 22:38 from: Martin Wynne Andrew Barrowman wrote: Are there as many bracket castings as there are crossing angles Hi Andy, Yes, there is a left and right bracket casting for each crossing angle. I'm just scanning a drawing, will post later. cheers, Martin. posted: 9 Jan 2018 23:15 from: Martin Wynne Hi Andy, Here are the scans. 1. REA. Sorry it's scanned from a poor photocopy. Built-Up "A" Chairs, C.I. (cast iron) Brackets: 2_091756_280000000.png Here's the link for the full-size scan: gallery/2 /original/2_091756_280000000.png 2. GWR: 2_091811_010000000.png Full-size scan: gallery/2 /original/2_091811_010000000.png ...
... topic: 2671 New dummy templates option posted: 14 Apr 2015 04:02 from: Martin Wynne I have added a new dummy template option for centre-line-only track templates to be drawn in the style of the background shapes when used as dummy templates. They are often used as such to represent curving baseboard edges, backscenes, and other structures. This option will make them more prominent and their meaning clear. For example Andrew is making much use of dummy templates as baseboard outlines and backscenes for his Yeovil project. Here I added a background shapes rectangle so that you can see that the dummy templates are being drawn in the same style (set on the background shapes dialog): 2_132216_410000003.png 2_132216_410000002.png Here you can see this makes it possible to have a smooth curving baseboard edge, which is not possible with the basic background shapes functions. You can use all the usual track functions, transitions, slewing, etc., to build up a series of dummy templates representing the baseboard edge (or anything else). For this example ...
... further photographs of this turnout, but each needs a little 'massaging' to bring it within permitted size limits. Anything in particular you would like to see? posted: 23 Mar 2016 17:22 from: Jim Guthrie John Palmer wrote: I have a few further photographs of this turnout, but each needs a little 'massaging' to bring it within permitted size limits. Anything in particular you would like to see? We won't know until we see them. Jim. posted: 23 Mar 2016 21:03 from: Andrew Barrowman Did someone spray that turnout with varnish to make it look pretty? On a more serious note, I noticed on Mikes shot of the MR crossing that the knuckle sits on a fancy chair and the bends in the wing rails don't appear to have a radius. posted: 23 Mar 2016 21:13 from: mikewturner Jim Guthrie wrote: John Palmer wrote: I have a few further photographs of this turnout, but each needs a little 'massaging' to bring it within permitted size limits. Anything in particular you ...
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