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... it down to. Perhaps I'll bite the bullet and top up the black ink in the Inkjet. Russell posted: 1 Mar 2009 14:07 from: Martin Wynne Hi Russell, A wrong printer calibration won't produce gaps between the pages -- everything would still fit together properly, but the track sizes would be wrong. As Brian has suggested, I think your problem is the printer. Laser printers heat the paper, causing it to shrink and distort slightly. For best results it is better to use an inkjet printer instead. Unfortunately, looking in computer stores recently I see that laser printers seem to be gaining in popularity over inkjets. A possible solution is to make sure the paper is bone dry before use, for example by storing it near a radiator or in an airing cupboard. You could even try heating it before use, although it may distort afterwards as it returns to room conditions. Also, using thicker paper seems to help. I always print templates on 160gsm paper, which is almost a thin card. Apart from being ...
... ). John posted: 16 Mar 2008 08:09 from: Martin Wynne John Lewis wrote Could you make it remember until directed elsewhere in a future release, please? I keep program files on 'C' and data on 'F' (D and E are the CD/DVD drives). Hi John, Since Templot data files are meaningless to any other program, I can't see any logic in not keeping them with the Templot program, all in one place. That has the advantage that the stored paths are relative instead of absolute and the entire Templot installation is then portable, should you need to move it. If you want to have your Templot data files on drive F, the obvious answer is to put the Templot program on F with them, as I explained to Richard. The program files are typically much smaller than the accumulated data files, so having them all in one place doesn't add much to the backup overhead, if that is the concern. Most backup programs have filters and exclusions for file types anyway. Keeping data ...
... number it shouldn't be too difficult to restart them where you left off. See also output> page origin> multiple output runs> menu options. It should take only 2 or 3 clicks there to cover a 20m layout, even with small A4 pages. I'd also like Templot to stop renumbering the templates every time as it gets confusing having two with the same number when you find a sleeper or something minor that needs editing half way through printing a large diagram. To avoid the numbers changing, click wipe to the control instead of delete to the control before making changes to a template. The edited template will gain a new number when stored again, but all the other template numbers will remain unchanged. When printing is over, any unwanted unused (wiped) templates can be deleted from the storage box. Currently working on a real P4 layout that is being built that is nearly 20 metres long and 4.5 metres wide. That sounds good, any pictures? regards, Martin. posted: 18 Apr 2013 14:12 from: Tony W ...
44. Changes in 218d
... to restrict the number of background templates being shown on the screen when zooming out. Again this may or may not make a significant difference to the screen response. See the above topic link for more details. 3. I have re-written the code for the make return curve function. I was never entirely happy with its working, and it was often annoying that it wouldn't work on transition curves. It does now. At the same time I have adopted a non-standard way of working for that function. Instead of putting the return curve in the control template, it is put on the background, leaving the turnout in the control template. The reason for that is that a return curve shouldn't have its length or radius changed, otherwise it won't function as a return curve. So there is little point in leaving it in the control template after making it. If you want to change the length or curving, make a branch track instead. No doubt this breaks somebody's rule about consistent user interfaces. They will just have to ...
... time and again across the internet users of Windows 10 having problems with perfectly good software that hits the buffers when people start using Microsoft's latest operating system. People say Linux is too difficult or some other similar trope but then proceed to use their android device without a second thought. How many people are using obsolete Microsoft operating systems just so they can use a older favourite piece of software? I seem to have got on my high horse so had better dismount. I will post a picture of the view across the fields tomorrow instead. It is so calm an serene. Regards. Trevor. posted: 13 May 2020 18:39 from: Andrew Hunt Hi everyone, All this interest is rather encouraging! I should probably reiterate that I can't guarantee that I'll get anywhere useful myself, but at least this thread can provide some inspiration to others even if I run out of time or get hit by a bus myself. And certainly, as Martin has discovered- open sourcing doesn't guarantee that an army of coders will turn up- but it at ...
46. Low-memory mode
... topic: 1149 Low-memory mode posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:59 from: Martin Wynne Since the beginning Templot has included a "low-memory" mode, but I would be interested to know how many of you have ever made use of it, or ever seen this message on startup: not enough free memory: Your system does not have sufficient free memory for Templot's normal screen refresh modes. The special LOW-MEMORY mode will be used instead. (Or try restarting Templot with no other applications running.) I'm removing some of the legacy features which are now out-of-date on modern computers, and wondering if this is one of them. But I don't want to remove stuff which anyone is still using. Likewise I would be interested to know how many are still using 256-colour (8 -bit palette) screens? Or 640 x 480 screen resolution? Templot includes a lot of code to deal with such things, and the very first release would run happily on such systems. I wouldn't ...
... it Hi Paul, As I've never had any contact with such a thing, can you tell me where the driver for it gets installed? Regarding print spooling, if you go to the Printer Properties and look under the Advanced tab, there are some interesting tickbox settings: Hold mismatched documents Print spooled documents first Keep printed documents Enable advanced printing features I've read the What's This? help for these and in typical Windows style I can't say I'm much the wiser. How exactly do you "resubmit a document from the printer queue instead of from the program"? Is this the Document> Restart menu item when you open the printer? Ticking this box seems to imply that everything you print is kept in the printer queue for ever, or at least until you remember to delete it, which would surely cause some congestion if you don't happen to remember. Also I don't understand what is meant by a "mismatched" document? As our printer correspondent, can you shed any light on these settings? Changing them may solve Edward's problem. Or not ...
... will need to make any similar changes to the file viewer in OT/MEC. cheers, Martin. posted: 29 Oct 2019 01:37 from: Graeme Martin Dobbins wrote:... I doubt very much that PNG would be required just to reduce storage space (!) but is it going to improve anything to remove it? Hi Martin, From a user's perspective, no. But if it is deprecated (i.e. due for removal) anyway, it is 400 lines of code I can just delete instead of spending time on when there are so many other things for me to do. Cheers, Graeme Last edited on 29 Oct 2019 01:38 by Graeme posted: 29 Oct 2019 02:06 from: Martin Wynne Graeme wrote: But if it is deprecated (i.e. due for removal) anyway, it is 400 lines of code I can just delete instead of spending time on when there are so many other things for me to do. Hi Graeme, Have you found that it needs spending time on? ...
49. menu box size
... , Martin. posted: 5 Dec 2019 23:14 from: Tom Allen With the three spaces altogether for the one function it should be easier to pickup with the mouse. I'll have to give that ctrl trick a try. I guess it'll still feel like using the m key which takes my view from the screen. posted: 6 Dec 2019 13:36 from: Martin Wynne Hi Tom, The proper answer to this is to set the entire menu to "OwnerDraw" in the program code. That means that instead of leaving Windows to draw the menu on the screen in the standard style, Templot takes over the job of drawing the menu. Each menu item can then be anything you like -- different sizes, colours, images, icons, buttons, etc. The snag there is that it is a massive amount of programming effort to deal with every menu item -- effort which might be better spent doing away with the menu entirely and replacing it with a normal dialog window having buttons and tickboxes in the usual way. ...
50. Templot new user
... trackwork. (It ran so weel in fact that someone who saw it made me an offer and bought it. As I model 1936 GWR, it did not find into our scene, but it was a nice model). Go for 3 bolt chairs. We do not make special chairs, although others do. Our experience is that cutting standard chairs gives a good representation. Dog's legs, (joggled stock rails), are good in theory. Problem is, they are usually very much overscale and it shows. Instead, use straight stock rails and switch blades which have been properly milled. I mill for general sale as fine as I think the public will accept. You will understand that you cannot mill nickel silver to an even sharp pointed end- you get to a time where the rotary action of the end mill makes the end ragged and uneven- we call it 'milling to rags'. This is how I mill blades I use myself and also for Norman Soloman. We then dress them so that they are down to a ...
... . The first FBR video is now available, see: topic 2511 and I shall in due course be converting the old videos to FBR format, in addition to making new ones. I appreciate that you are in <rant> mode, but I think the "why oh why" remark was uncalled for. Within the resources of a one-man developer providing a free-to-use program I'm doing my best. regards, Martin. posted: 20 Aug 2014 21:32 from: Trevor Walling Hello, Instead of ranting at Martin, why can't Apple and Microsoft product users ask the appropriate companies concerned why they still insist on trying to lock their customers into using closed source product specific software. After all there are many free open source superior alternatives available these days. I think the days of operating system creators being able to dictate what people have to use on their machines is over. Best wishes. Trevor. posted: 20 Aug 2014 22:32 from: Ade Thanks, Matt and Martin for your replies. Now I ...
52. Curved Diamond
... want to change any of the existing alignments, as I struggled for a long time to get the whole thing to flow. Ignore the timbering -- I'll be using interlaced sleepering a la Caledonian Railway. Can anyone advise me? Please! Allan Ferguson Attachment: attach_746_1061_Muckhart_north_10 _03_07_0124_09.box 318 posted: 7 Mar 2010 08:48 from: Martin Wynne Hi Allan, It's not generally a good idea to run a slew through pointwork -- slews are intended mainly for plain track. If possible it is better to use a transition curve instead. I found that this transition matched your alignment very closely: initial radius= 10980 mm final radius= straight length along the initial radius= 0 length along transition section= 995 mm 2_070316_330000000.png I snaked (CTRL+ F6) the turnout forward by about 2mm to line up the V-crossing with your existing track: 2_070317_110000000.png The diamond-crossing is an irregular diamond, meaning that the radii in the two roads differ. This means that all the crossing angles also differ. Irregular diamonds are not (yet) supported ...
53. Despair
... to construct layouts by "sticking templates together". Perhaps I am wrong in my approach to using Templot but it works for me. Alan posted: 18 Mar 2009 18:04 from: Martin Wynne Alan Turner wrote: If people just want to stick templates together then they would be better off with AnyRail and such like. Hi Alan, But AnyRail doesn't let you print a curved B-7 turnout on 1750mm radius in EM gauge, and then change your mind and make it a B-7.5 on 1500mm radius instead. I think quite a few of the beginner's problems stem from not appreciating that and trying to construct layouts by "sticking templates together". I wrote about the two design approaches at: message 793 F7 snapping was introduced rather against my better judgement in response to user requests. But at times it can be extremely useful (and very quick). In this message: message 1358 I wrote: "The 'pick-and place' functions which you are probably expecting to find are available in 082d and 091b (F7 ...
54. Web design blues
... is the site of a web site firm based near here: Hughes Media Yellow headings on white? Small text in pale grey? Are my eyes so much worse than the average, or are these sites all created by 25-year-olds with perfect vision and top-of-the-range monitors? Ummm- apart from the white text on a yellow background, I find that site very clean and easy to read. It isn't full of Flash and gimmicks that only serve to show how clever the designer is instead of getting the message across. The colour of the text against the plain white background reduces the contrast compared to plain black, which makes it easier on the eye. And I haven't been 25 for nearly 17 years Have you looked at their portfolio page? There might be some ideas there. I'd welcome some ideas for how to get the Templot web site looking a bit more stylish without ending up with something as daft as this. Do you have a favourite web site which looks good and is actually readable? I ...
... make the control it works the same way as all the functions containing the word "make". It first stores the previous control template as a background template, and then creates a new control template. For example make crossover stores the first turnout and then creates the second turnout in the control template. In most cases this is helpful and avoids the need for you to remember to store the previous control template. But if that is not what you want (maybe because you have already stored the existing control template), instead of M press T delete to the the control which will simply remove the clicked template from the background and copy it into the control template for further work: 2_141511_180000000.png Remember that this will discard the previous control template without storing it. You may want to do some experimenting with these functions before working on your live track plan. You mention reloading your track plan. It's possible that your plan already contains many duplicated templates, which is why they keep appearing when you try to delete them. As you delete each one, ...
... up some and you can straighten out PL2332 and PL231. Might not be much of a move, maybe 5-ish ties just eye-balling it... John posted: 16 Nov 2018 09:59 from: Martin Wynne Hi William, Your first turnout on the left (TL235) has a turnout radius of 27" which is distinctly sharp for EM. Generally when curving turnouts with similar flexure, you need to start with something larger than a B-6. Here I have used a B-7 instead, and eased the curving radius a bit, which gets the turnout radius to a more respectable 42": 2_160434_510000001.png I also changed turnout A to a right-hand turnout, so that the turnout road forms part of the crossover, instead of the running line. This allows the running lines to form the ruling curves, with turnouts branching from them, in a more prototypical manner. Here I replaced the turnouts with plain track, to illustrate that. The grey tracks are your originals: 2_160434_510000000.png The curves include transition ...
... expanding to 77Mb 600dpi bitmap. Attachment: attach_588_897_stonega-garage-600dpi.zip 278 posted: 11 Jul 2009 15:45 from: Nigel Brown Bruce Just had a quick go. This may not be the expert way of doing it, but I think gets towards what you want. For the RH turnout, stick the peg on MXP then stick the notch on it, then Store& Background. For the LH turnout, stick the peg on IGTP then do a Move Peg onto Notch. For even greater overlap, use MCP instead of MXP. I suspect there is a better way involving sliding the LH turnout onto the RH one ??? cheers Nigel posted: 11 Jul 2009 18:00 from: Martin Wynne BruceNordstrand wrote: The 2% that I am not happy with is the two turnouts in the lower left corner at the end of the coke ovens. These 2 are somewhat intertwined with the LH turnout to the outer ovens embedded deeply into the RH turnout to the through track. Effectively, the point blades of the LH are ( ...
... than once. The small SK5 file tells the loader which FBR video to play, or to download first and then play. The Templot installer setup should have associated SK5 files with the video loader in Windows. Which browser are you using? Selecting the SK5 "Open" option in your browser on the video link should enable the browser to launch the video loader. I have just done a new test install in Windows7, and everything appears to be working fine using Firefox. If you can't get it to work, choose instead the option to "Save" the SK5 file, and then open it directly by going to help> video player> open SK5 files... menu item in Templot, and navigating to your saved downloads folder. If still no joy, some of the videos can be viewed online (in poorer MP4 image quality, without the full FBR interactive functions), at: Templot Explained- first off: http://flashbackconnect.com/Default.aspx?id=sBA8Rx8eNDxUqTCgPweQgQ2 Templot Explained- hand and direction: http:/ ...
... at that angle when stored and saved. But clicking that menu item doesn't convert Templot to working in CLM. So the next time you enter an angle of say 1:8, it will be RAM, and if you wanted that to be CLM, you have to click the menu item again. The V-crossing angle is displayed in both RAM and CLM in the info. *displayed to two decimal places. The internal angle will be an exact conversion. if you want to enter the angle in decimal degrees instead of unit angles, prefix it with a letter k. So entering k5.75 sets the angle to 5.75 degrees (5o45'). if you want to enter the angle in% gradient instead of unit angles, prefix it with a letter g. So entering g25 sets the angle to 25% (1 :4 RAM). There are several more of these input-conversion code letters. For example prefix letter i lets you enter inches when Templot is asking for mm. So i10 sets a dimension to 254mm ( ...
60. File location
... settings available on there, and have Templot working immediately where you left off, without needing to install it. It also means you can easily back up your entire Templot activity by adding the TEMPLOT_DEV folder to your backup set. Or by uploading that folder to online cloud storage, say. You can of course save your Templot files anywhere you wish on your computer when the file dialogs are displayed. But it is then up to you to keep track of them. If you want to have Templot on your D: drive instead of C:, you can simply install it there (or anywhere else you wish). However, if your Documents folder on there is owned by (i.e. was created by) Windows, or is one of Windows' infuriating virtual folders, I strongly recommend that you don't install Templot in it, or save your Templot files to it. Instead, create a folder of your own for the purpose, for example say D:\RAILWAY_STUFF\MODELS\. regards, Martin. posted: 17 Feb 2016 ...
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