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... , I've had a go at the 3 way, just needs the timbering sorting out now. Borg-Rail wrote: Hi, Slip looks OK to me, I'll have a look at the 3 way this am Attachment: attach_2443_3030_high_road_2017_05 _24_0840_57.box 334 posted: 24 May 2017 11:05 from: Martin Wynne Hi Michael, Welcome to Templot Club. I noticed there are several places where you have used a regular type of V-crossing: 2_240523_120000000.png where it would achieve a better "flow" to use curviform V-crossings instead. Where you have contraflexure with a regular V-crossing, the vee splice rail also has contraflexure. Sometimes this is what you want (in a curved crossover for example). But in many cases where the intention is for the tracks to diverge, it is better to change to a curviform V-crossing. Otherwise you will have a short section of reverse curve in the diverging road. Often this doesn't show very obviously on the screen, but it will do when looking along the finished tracks. To see ...
62. Route control
... turnouts are in the end position and then steady lighted. I have this kind of control panel already on the layout, for a small station with seven turnouts and nine routes. The electronic filled two euro cards with components. I think for these 102 routes it will fill several cake tins with components and it will be daunting complex. I have the idea that this could be made simpler with the usage of microprocessors. Has anyone realized something like that, or is there a source for a solution? I prefer a microprocessor instead of a PC. I hope the micro is faster at start up, is more trouble free and needs less space. Regards, René. posted: 12 Nov 2007 04:15 from: Martin Wynne renluethi wrote: I have the idea that this could be made simpler with the usage of microprocessors. Has anyone realized something like that, or is there a source for a solution? I prefer a microprocessor instead of a PC. I hope the micro is faster at start up, is more trouble free and needs ...
... them is so far off as to be obviously out of contention. Otherwise it asks you to specify which intersection you mean, as in the alert dialog above. Clearly it's not this one, as there is no track there. But if you were to zoom out and extend the length of your two templates, you would see that they would in fact intersect at this point. When you get a screen such as above, you can tell Templot that it's the wrong intersection, by clicking the no- try other intersection instead bar. The workpad is blank showing no grid lines because this intersection turns out to be in the negative quadrant. The "white square" is in fact the pegging notch. Templot is using it to mark the intersection location. The yellow circle is just a temporary screen-centre target ring. It will vanish as soon as you change the view. regards, Martin. posted: 24 May 2011 18:23 from: Richard Spratt I understand what is happening but I don't think what actually appears on the screen ...
... Martin has a lot of views on this Not really. I'm not fully up to date with the current supply position. John (Hayfield) on RMweb seems best placed to advise. For myself I much prefer all-soldered construction. Partly for the instant set and ease of adjustment, but also because I can't stand the pong of butanone. I think Joe Brook-Smith's original riveted ply system still has a lot to be said for it. The Scalefour Society have just upgraded their supplies to precision laser-cut plywood instead of sheared strip. The great advantage of riveted ply is that you can get the track built, laid, tested, wired up and running, and only later add the cosmetic half-chairs at your leisure. If the rivet positioning is done carefully, the end result looks just the same as using glued chairs on plywood. Beginners can deal with any misplaced rivets by fettling them with the edge of a Dremel abrasive disc. Fitting the rivets to the timbers can be time consuming, but strangely satisfying. An alternative ...
65. Pug version 091c
... a fax driver or PDF generator will do fine. A free PDF printer driver can be downloaded from: http://www.pdf995.com/download.html) regards, Martin. posted: 1 Sep 2009 11:26 from: Martin Wynne Borg-Rail wrote: Do I take then if on a network a printer connected to another computer on the network doesn't count either? Also if you have a printer driver installed can you then also print to a Network Printer as well? Hi Stephen, You can print to a network printer instead of a local printer -- provided it is switched on and available for use before you start Templot. Templot builds a list of printer information during startup. It must find at least one printer, otherwise it can't start. If it's a local printer only the driver program is needed -- the printer itself doesn't have to be switched on, or connected, or even exist. This is needed for the printer calibration functions, and also to enable the page outlines on the pad. If you don't have a local ...
... thanks for your thoughts. JFS wrote: because- short of re-writing the interface- there is nothing you can do to appease them. Well I can change the interface if I choose -- but to WHAT exactly? This is what makes me so frustrated -- I simply do not know what is wrong with the interface, and although I keep asking no-one will ever tell me! Here are few questions for everyone -- how would you rather adjust the length of a transition zone, say, instead of the present method? How would you rather change from REA switches to straight switches, say, instead of the present method? How would you rather apply marker colours to different templates instead of the present method? Would you prefer a template's menu to appear on a right-click instead of a left-click? Are there too many child windows? Should they be modal? And a hundred similar questions. I can change most things, but only if I can understand the problem. regards, Martin. posted ...
67. Quick-mode
... template to the control, and so does extend template to... I've got my new user head on and I'm confunded again The copy and make option seems to work but still gives the warning. Hopefully the message will work this time! Last edited on 21 May 2011 21:01 by Paul Boyd posted: 21 May 2011 21:26 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: Edit- what on earth happened there? I'll try again in a second! Hi Paul, I think perhaps you did Copy Image instead of Copy Image Location? That works but there's another problem. I was clicking on various background templates, then hit Ctrl-V to store the latest control to the background. There was then no visible control template (toggling the Home key didn't bring one up). There is a difference between hiding the control template (HOME key) and invalidating the control template (DELETE key, or red Z tool-button). A hidden template is fully viable etc., but just not displayed. You can still ...
... posted: 4 Jan 2018 10:31 from: madscientist You are a national treasure Martin, how HM missed you in the recent list is beyond me Last edited on 4 Jan 2018 10:32 by madscientist posted: 4 Jan 2018 11:17 from: Paul Boyd Gosh, Martin, that's brilliant! All those hours spent fiddling with partial templates, and now Templot does most of it for you! One teeny little point- when I updated the program, it wanted to install in a folder called Templot 2, instead of Templot2. Knowing your dislike of spaces in filenames, that surprised me. I'm not sure how long that's been the case though as I tend to do my own thing, but if someone previously had Templot installed in a Templot2 folder, they might wonder where all their work has gone. I'm fairly sure Templot2 came from a previous default install, and I didn't change the folder name, but I could be wrong! Oh, of course it all installed beautifully, as always. Cheers, Paul posted: 4 ...
... edited on 12 Nov 2011 19:26 by Tony W posted: 10 Nov 2011 20:42 from: Martin Wynne Hi Tony, I think the Windows print spooler is running out of memory. Try: 1. set a lower print quality (dpi). On many HP printers the draft quality is perfectly adequate as a construction template. Whatever you do, don't inadvertently try to print from Templot with the printer set to "photo" quality. 2. change the printer Properties to "print directly to printer" instead of spooling. This will mean that you can't continue using Templot until all the pages have finished printing, but it will use less system resources. 3. change the print format from "RAW" to "EMF" or vice versa. 4. print in black& white instead of colour. 5. print only one page at a time and "cancel the remaining pages", instead of "print all remaining pages". Then repeat the whole print operation for the next page. or 6. install some ...
... topic: 911 3-throw turnout for Richard Lambert posted: 26 Jul 2009 17:29 from: Alan McMillan IMPORTANT NOTE- 3-WAY TURNOUTS This topic is about three-throw turnouts. 99% of 3-way turnouts are not three-throw turnouts. They are tandem turnouts. Three-throw turnouts are tricky to build and have very limited prototype applications. If you have arrived at this topic looking for information about 3-way turnouts, please refer instead to tandem turnouts. Click here to search for the relevant topics: tandem turnouts____ Hi Richard Hope this is what you were looking for. Please let me know if it needs any adjustment. Regards Alan McMillan Attachment: attach_598_911_LMS_Tandem_for_R_La mbert.box 591 posted: 26 Jul 2009 18:54 from: Richard Lambert Hi Alan Many thanks indeed. That looks to be exactly what I want. I shall have to print it out and try it in place to confirm. I will report back. Regards Richard posted: 26 Jul 2009 20:58 from: Richard ...
... a bit confusing. regards, Martin. posted: 16 Apr 2017 14:23 from: Martin Wynne Hi Panos, I have had a dabble with your previous .box file (I don't know how well that corresponds with your latest plan). 2_160905_370000000.png With your original B-7.25 turnout (red), the curved turnout is going to be very long, around F-20, which is not only more difficult to build, it might also look a bit out of keeping with your other much shorter turnouts. So instead I moved your turnout to the left and increased it to a D-12. It is then possible to create a more likely-looking crossover, with the curved turnout at D-12.43 You could change that to a standard D-12 and tidy up the alignments if you wished. I used method 2. in my previous post, inserting the turnout at the intersection. It needed a 180-degree rotation after creation (SHIFT+ F8), because Templot isn't as clever as you might think. I'm ...
... I click the link, in my email... topic_860&forum_id=5 &jump_to=5633 It does seem strange that if I copy and paste the link, it does take me to this post and not the top of the page. posted: 3 Nov 2009 01:52 from: Martin Wynne Hi Dean, Thanks for posting those details. Your problem is in Windows Mail. It is truncating the URL at the anchor (the bit at the end after the #) when it parses the link, instead of including it. The only suggestion I can make is to copy and paste the link into your browser instead of simply clicking it. Make sure that what you are copying includes the #p.... bit on the end. Or to not use Windows Mail. If you normally view emails as HTML you could try changing to viewing emails as plain text (which is much safer). But all emails from Templot Club are plain text anyway, so that shouldn't really make any difference. All the above ...
... the whole input sequence, when I checked the timber spacing using the shove timbers menu, I found that the S1 timber was backward (as in the custom menu dialog) by 2ins. and the centre line was in-line with the toe (blade front tip) of the switch, where the centre line of the timber should have been some 2ins. forward (as in the custom menu dialog) of the toe. Also the centre line spacing between the S1 and J1 timbers was wrong being, 2ft 2ins, instead of 2ft 4ins, which consequently put all the following timbers along the switch out, in a backward position, by the same amount, although the individual spacing between the following timbers was correct. In addition the position dimension of the S1 timber from the stock rail front joint was showing 66ins. Instead of 68ins as the drawing indicated. I tried this a couple of times, with the same result. At this point I refer you to the two included images below, one is the dimension details of the switch as ...
... : 2 Jan 2012 16:19 from: Martin Wynne Donald MacLean wrote: It was in fact your message #15 in your referenced URL that gave me the inspiration to try this. And I equated your comment there about including a direct 'print to bitmap' in a future PUG with the new 'output' function in TDV. Hi Donald, Yes it is. Export the template as a PNG image file if you need a raster file and then do the trace on that. If your software won't accept PNG use BMP instead. There is no need to print and then scan. In that original topic I used PaintShopPro to edge-detect and then WinTopo to vectorise it and create a DXF vector file for the laser. If you could say exactly what form of input your plotter/cutter is expecting and how it creates a cutter path from it, I can be more specific about the best way to get the required result at the correct size. Where did the 35 inches dimension come from? How did you measure it? I'm sorry ...
... the distance from the inner face of the check-rail to the inner face of the crossing wing-rail. Thanks for your very helpful reply. I had held off printing the templates until I received a reply and, just as I finished printing, in came your post. Thanks for your comments regarding the wallpaper. I think I shall abandon the this approach for the reason you have given and because of the issues I have found with flatness and vulnerability. I guess I am going back to the traditional cork sheets instead. Your comments about the templates are a worry. When building turnouts with copperclad I was able to remove the templates on completion of the build before fitting them to the baseboard. Ballasting was no problem.I have found though that the ply sleeper and chair method of construction does not produce the same same degree of stability when the templates are removed and distortion can easily be introduced. I am using balsa cement to secure the sleepers to the template and Butanone to secure the chairs to the sleepers. Is there a real problem ballasting ...
... in the browser address bar. Here on Templot Club the message numbers can be seen in the status bar at the bottom left of your browser, by hovering the mouse over the "this message only" link at the top left of each message. The number is also shown at the bottom of club emails. 2. Post a reply to this topic, quoting the message number, and whether it applies to Templot Club web forum, or Yahoo. I can do the rest. You can of course post full links instead if you prefer, and add your indexing suggestions. Please don't start a new topic -- post everything as replies here in this one, so that I know where to find it. Many thanks for your help. Comments welcome as always. regards, Martin. posted: 27 Apr 2009 19:38 from: Phil O Hi Martin I have just had a quick look at the indexing and it looks to be a positive step forward to helping find information especially if the index can be cross referenced to the various ...
... edited on 29 Aug 2018 19:18 by madscientist posted: 29 Aug 2018 23:17 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: Martin you might have a look at the two single slip arrangement here and suggest the lever frame sequence Hi Dave, You have the diagram unusually arranged with the inner slip switches lying normal across the diamond: 2_291800_040000000.png It is more usually arranged like this: 2_291801_020000000.png Pulling lever 3 provides a crossover between the Up and Down Mains. Then also pulling lever 2 connects the Up Main to the Down Loop instead of the Down Main. Or also pulling lever 1 connects the Down Main to Up Loop instead of the Up Main. Pulling levers 1 and 2 instead of 3 provides a crossover between the two Loop lines. Here's a more conventional view: 2_300731_570000000.png Slip switches 1 and 2 lie normal for the slip road, so that pulling only 3 provides a main line crossover. However, I see from your RMweb topic that you are modelling GWR practice, in which case things may be done differently. We need a reply from ...
... , is this what is supposed to happen? Hi Stephen, Yes -- it's not a "flaw" or a "feature". It's just the way it was designed. It hasn't changed. If necessary, do a CTRL+ X template> swap hand after swapping end-for-end. Or click the L|R button. See this video: http://flashbackconnect.com/Movie.aspx?id=hUsAbpUJYq2Ad8cQyEjBYg2 If swapping end-for-end didn't swap the hand at the same time, it would instead invert the curving radius. Swings or roundabouts? cheers, Martin. posted: 24 Jun 2019 11:38 from: Stephen Freeman OK I'll settle for rotate 180 degrees instead, no need to do anything else. posted: 24 Jun 2019 11:51 from: Martin Wynne Stephen Freeman wrote: OK I'll settle for rotate 180 degrees instead (SHIFT+ F8), no need to do anything else. That's not the same thing, because it destroys the alignment with any adjacent templates. But you obviously know what ...
... quite clear that this software is absolutely bug-ridden, have you considered working for one of the big software houses." Which wounded me to the heart at the time, but I have managed to struggle on. Martin. posted: 26 Oct 2015 22:14 from: DerekStuart You are a good sport. A higher force sent to punish me? Hmmm... you mean one that tells you after countless hours of designing a location with REA turnouts that you probably should have loose heeled "standard" turnouts instead? THAT is punishment from a higher force. As for vees- I normally give a couple of vees to certain posts in 'the other place' each day. Derek Godfrey Earnshaw wrote: Hi Derek, I didn't see your comment, I am disappointed, I wanted something to be offended by. Unfortunately I am not offended by anything much I love banter, I love argument but tend to reserve my arguments for people I consider to be worthy i.e they can see clearly and merely hold a different opinion to me. ...
80. Posted by email
... about things they haven't seriously tried, and pretty obviously wishes to continue to use the product which he thinks quite highly of. Moreover, he has been known to promote the virtues of Templot to others, and indeed wrote an article for Mixed Traffic, the 3mm Society quarterly magazine, doing precisely that. Hi Nigel, I know Andrew is a long time Templot user and I understand the points he is making. I suspect that they are shared by many others. My complaint is that they appeared in my personal email inbox instead of on here. I simply WILL NOT be contacted directly about Templot2. The whole and entire reason for making Templot free was to avoid that happening, and if it goes on I shall have to close the whole thing down. regards, Martin. posted: 24 Jun 2012 17:59 from: Nigel Brown Dave M wrote: If he had voiced his issues "CONSTRUCTIVELY' and via the right channel....they might! Dave I don't see what wasn't constructive about the issues; it was a pretty straightforward ...
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