... room before emerging at the upper level. The scenic side will be mainly urban with brick cuttings and retaining walls. Period will be late '60's, ECML in the transition from steam to diesel. (Don't worry about the US stock shown in the pics!) Progress so far is here. railway1fa0.jpg railway2vp4.jpg Lower level track is all Tillig for ease of laying with all visible track being SMP flexible plus hand made points using pcb strip and code 75 bullhead rail with 1mm flangeways. I had around 50 points from a previous layout but have now learned how to build my own customised pointwork. I'm very pleased with this development as I had never built a point until a few months ago as I thought I would never have the skills to do so. Following encouragement from other members of RMWeb, I attempted my first a couple of months ago and was amazed when I was able to produce a finished article that worked! Since then, I have been well and truly hooked and have now built curved points, a double slip and two 3 way points ...

... topic: 3228 Fresh air and photos posted: 24 Feb 2018 21:08 from: Martin Wynne As I've mentioned once or twice, my interest when not Templotting is landscape photography. It gets me some fresh air and exercise away from the computer. The results won't win any prizes, but I like them and looking back through my photos over the years is a pleasant way to spend an hour or two on a grey winter's day. I've been in the habit of posting them occasionally on RMweb, but I don't see any reason not to post them here. Here's the best of today's crop. It was a nice sunny day, but my fingers were too cold to work the camera controls properly so I didn't stay out long. astley_mud_1280x800.jpg camera at SO 78670 67837 I swear that pylon wasn't there when I pressed the shutter. Feel free to add your own photos if you wish. Not all of life is in BRT. cheers, Martin. posted: 24 Feb 2018 21:22 from: Paul Boyd I like moody photos! ...

... from: Martin Wynne As I mentioned, the reports of folks using 3D printing to create bullhead chairs has spurred me to move chairing in Templot from the NOD* list to the to-do list. I started some experimental work a couple of years ago, and I have now returned to it. It seemed that if the output was to be of any use in 3D printing, the chair outlines would need to have the proper corner radii. It's a lot of extra calculation with 4 chairs on most crossing timbers, but it hasn't impacted too much on the screen response for full track plans. Obviously you would switch the chairs on only for the final printed templates, they are not needed while track planning. It's fiendishly complex. For example the REA bridge chairs (L1) have a larger corner radius (1.3/4 ") than ordinary S1 chairs (which have 1" corner radius): 2_161458_330000001.png And GWR slide chairs have a full semi-circular end on the inside, for example. Templot does all the positioning and rotating ...

... country goods shed with office extension, internal platform and awning over the loading doors. As you can see, it won't win any prizes: 2_292139_500000000.gif I saved it as a GIF image with transparent background. And this is what it looks like inserted on the sketchboard as a bitmap item. I rotated it into line with the track, stretched it to the correct size, and gave it a little transparency to show the internal track: 2_292139_510000001.png Now such objects can be drawn directly on the sketchboard with vector precision if desired. But it would be great to have a selection gallery of such clip-art items ready to just pick and place. Station buildings, engine sheds, signal boxes, water towers, cattle docks, coal drops, trees, etc. In a variety of sizes and attractive styles, perhaps some based on real locations. What's fairly clear is that I'm not the one to do the drawings! Can you do better? You can't do much worse than me. You could post them here in this topic via the image gallery ...

... topic: 3667 Exporting a track plan to create a mimic panel posted: 13 May 2020 09:59 from: Gordon S Hi Martin/Fellow Templotters I've decided to build a mimic panel for Eastwood Town as I'm struggling to mentally convert the schematic diagram within my ECoS controller to the totally curved shape of my own layout. I now have the required amount of LED's and controllers from DCC Concepts, so thought I'd make a start on creating the track plan. My first thought was to use Sketchboard, but once I started to enlarge the panel, the track edges became jagged. The final mimic panel is going to be something like 800mm long by 400mm deep. I can't say the exact size as it's going to be governed by the need to place LED's within the track lines. The bezels of the LED's are 7mm diameter. In total there will be at least 72 LED's on the panel showing the turnout detection of 36 turnouts. What is the best way of accomplishing this? Ideally I would like to add six platform faces and text ...

... suggestion made of having Templot remember the last user settings. OK, I give in. I have never understood the importance of saving user preferences. I seldom use the same ones twice, and compared with an hour on Templot and hundreds or even thousands of mouse clicks in a session, half a dozen clicks at the start to change a few settings seem insignificant. Especially compared with the great advantage of starting from a known repeatable condition every time -- which also makes it much easier for me to provide user support. But I've been asked for saved preferences so often that I give in. In the next pug I will include the option to save some of your settings. But I need to know which ones -- I can't do every single thing that might be changed in Templot (although I can add more in each subsequent pug). So if you would like to reply to this with some of the things you would want saved between sessions, we can compile a short list of say two dozen settings for inclusion. We can ...

... topic: 1540 Odd printing result posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:23 from: Gordon S Hi guys, strange one that I need some help with. No doubt it is something obvious, but I can't see it... Printing off 30 odd pages and one page only has the rails missing and only shows the sleepers. I've tried most obvious things but cannot find the error. Any ideas? 479_170322_540000000.jpg posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:15 from: Jim Guthrie Gordon, I could be facetious and say "scrap thieves". But I note that there is also a rail missing on the adjacent page. Jim. posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:30 from: Martin Wynne Hi Gordon, That's very odd. There are no settings which can apply to an individual printed page. All settings are based on individual templates, or apply to all the pages. However, as Jim says it seems to be more than one page, and on the second page there is just a tiny fragment of rail showing at the top ...

... I am totally new to this and nobody nearby (in Denmark) builds track! I have spent the last months getting to know Templot, and have now decided that the time has come to take the plunge and actually build something! Here is the plan for the turnout I am going to try: 3033_091632_110000000.jpg There are all sorts of challenges with it for someone like me. For a start, there's a slight curve, and also the turnout worked best as a B-6.75. I have bought jigs from scalefour, but they only do the whole numbers. I am hoping I can file a size 7 and then file it to fit. It's not that I am really concerned about- no doubt I will be when I make it! The questions I'd most like help with are these: 1. Is the pcb/plywood construction combo in any way sensible? I've arrived at it because with plywood I can use proper chairs but with pcb under the vee I can fix this solidly (also I can't work out what chairs I would ...

... /www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/55140-west-fraddon-rslrs-workbench-all-new-plan/page-9 #entry1306313 It seems that I am failing somewhere. Perhaps I should just shake my head and move on. Martin....... I don't seem to be getting along very well with these track design programs, not easy to use or understand at all. I tried a free program called AnyRail that allows 50 or so bits of track which was useless but seemed simple if your designing a trainset. Another I tried called Xtrkcad which I didn't have a clue. I have the Hornby HVR programs but they're very primitive and you can only use their components. I found this program called Scarm which seems simple enough a fairly straight forward but taken me a while to grasp, I'm sure there are many different tools etc but I've not figured that out. Eventually looking at these boring track design programs not being able to figure out anything or get it to do what I want makes ...

... topic: 47 Thunderbird- OT posted: 11 Jun 2007 18:57 from: Templot User -- --- from Brian Lewis -- --- Peter Ayre wrote:> Brian,> I had a similar problem when I switched from OE to Thunderbird.> In OE I had 30+ message rules in Thunderbird I have still only built> up to 13.> All I did was rebuild my message rules one at a time. I also copied> and transfered my message folders but again, it's suppprising how many> have not been used.> It is similar with the address book, I had over 100 addresses in my OE> address book but so far have less than 30 in Thunderbird, and> Thunderbird can still access my OE address book when needed.>> I suppose I have used my transfer from OE to Thunderbird as a chance> to spring clean my email setup. Hi, I seem to have blundered my way to getting Thunderbird to work and I do like the layout and the way ...