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81. Rolling sleepers
... is continue to roll the sleepers, leaving the rail the same length. My guess is that there must be something which one is meant to do to stop the sleepers rolling. The question is what? posted: 9 Mar 2009 08:37 from: Martin Wynne Nigel Brown wrote: So I pressed F4, thinking this would do the trick. No. What it now does is continue to roll the sleepers, leaving the rail the same length. Hi Nigel, I think you pressed the number 4 key by mistake instead of F4. The number keys 1 to 9 are single-key alternatives to CTRL-F1 to CTRL-F9 respectively. See the single-key shortcuts on the chart: help> print F-key chart menu item. 4/ CTRL-F4 is the roll rails mouse action. The single-key alternative shortcuts make it possible to change mouse action quickly with one hand without removing the other hand from the mouse. But they aren't always available (if the keyboard has focus somewhere else), hence the ...
82. Y Turnouts
... :38 from: Mark C Folks, I am a novice to Templot and am interested in Y Turnouts for a compact American HO shelf switching layout based on John Allen's Timesaver Puzzle, see below. Obviously, this is not prototype inspired. 2480_272315_180000000.png For anyone interested, Google "John Allen Timesaver" to get learn more on this fascinating concept. I have not yet gone through the 2001 tutorial and your 2008 update for building Y Turnouts. In the meantime, I have created a trackplan using HO NMRA #4 model turnouts instead., see screenshot below. 2480_272320_040000000.png I'm sure I have made a lot of mistakes in this design, but it looks like it should work. Attached is the Box file for this trackplan. Any advice on how this could be improved would be appreciated. Any advice on how to get started with a more accurate rendition of the Allen's Timesaver trackplan would also be appreciated. Is there any news on when Symmetrical Y Turnout Templates might be included in Templot? Thanks. Mark C Attachment: attach_1477_2036_timesaver_ho_no4 _2012_07_27_0345_52.box 293 posted: 28 ...
... workpad is blank underneath the control then I haven't saved it. If there's a template there than I have! And sometimes I still forget to save More concerning is the question of unwanted templates, and I really would like to understand what users are doing to create these. I'm not sure we've established exactly where these unwanted templates are. Are we talking about multiple copies of the same template on the workpad, or unused templates in the storage box? I often end up with the latter, but that's because I'll often wipe instead of copy/delete to control if I'm not quite sure where I'm going, so may want to restore a wiped template later. It's a matter of seconds to tidy these up when they're finished with. For multiple copies on the workpad, I think the control disappearing for a second then re-appearing works OK, but maybe a compromise could be for the control to fade out and back in again. That's along the same lines as your suggestion of sliding back, and again looks deliberate instead of a bug. ...
84. Single Slip
... from: Martin Wynne Scott Willis wrote: When constructing a large Diamond Crossing/Slip, anything above 1:10 and Templot doesn't produce the required K-Crossings. Can anyone tell me how to produce these? Hi Scott, I strongly recommend that you don't try to use fixed K-crossings at 1:13.5 angle, especially on such a tight curve. Derailments are inevitable. Fixed K-crossings are limited to 1:8 max, and then only in straight track. Templot is drawing a switch-diamond instead (i.e. movable K-crossings) because that is what is required in this situation. Here are a couple of images to help explain.These are switch-diamond-crossings, but you can add slip roads to make them into slips, just as for fixed K-crossings: switch_diamond_10bh.jpg© PWI switch_diamond.jpg© PWI Notice that in a flat-bottom switch-diamond (lower photo) the switch tips (points) are carried on two separate timbers. In a bullhead switch-diamond (upper drawing) both switch ...
... ' generic track templates. Surely we can do better than this? Well we have and as from the new year, a new era in track construction begins. Boat and aircraft kit manufacturers use lasers to cut components with amazing accuracy- as do model railway kit manufacturers in the US. It doesn't seem to happen here. But we are going to change all that. So for the past month I have been taking prototype track construction plans and converting them into files readable by laser. Forget sleepers, forget turnout timbers. Instead, we offer complete track and turnout bases in laser cut ply. And not just generic versions. You want 44'6" GWR track panels, you can have 'em. LNWR 60'? NER 45'? MR 45'? They are on our workbench. Turnout bases which you can curve like flexitrack, including NER interlaced, MR with 14" timbers where the Midland positioned them- the possibilities are endless- the list is endless. For narrow gauge modellers, we have made a start with 0n30 bases, and ...
... rewriting it to use other mechanisms, or creating TMetafile support in Lazarus. Either way is a massive amount of work, at least it would be for me. I'm assuming that those already working on Linux or other platforms may have solutions, but no-one has popped up to say so. Likewise the PDF export. To find an open-source replacement ought to be easy. But I haven't found one. Writing one from scratch would be another major task. There is the option of using a virtual printer application instead of the dedicated export, but they are all focused on standard paper sizes and can't produce the large single page PDFs which Templot's dedicated PDF export can create for wide-format long-roll printing. The alternative approach to both these issues would be a half-way house in which OpenTemplot makes use of a pre-compiled Windows helper executable. I have already adopted that approach for the screenshot maps, there apparently being no other easy-to-use embeddable browser other than the Windows I.E. control. In that ...
... . But B1 does its own thing and hardly moves. Attached is a screen grab and box file. 68_241243_320000000.png Attachment: attach_1156_1598_ner_pre_1908_11_0 8_24_1740_04.box 274 posted: 24 Aug 2011 22:38 from: Martin Wynne Richard Spratt wrote: When I made my pre 1908 NER turnout I added 8 bonus timbers. Timber B2 to B8 stay with the track nicely when it is curved. But B1 does its own thing and hardly moves. Hi Richard, That's an interesting one. The specific reason is that this timber has been crabbed into position instead of being moved along. If you restore it you can then move it along to the required position. Thanks for finding this bug. I will get it fixed. regards, Martin. posted: 25 Aug 2011 18:32 from: Richard Spratt Thanks Martin, I'm really impressed with how the timbers stay with the track when it's curved. I had expected to have to move them around each time the template was used in a different curve, but I probably won;t have to do that. posted: ...
... leo_sandstrom And here is the corresponding DXF file. Im sure this has a really simple solution, I just cant figure out what Im doing wrong Maybe if someone sent me a dxf so I can try and open it when exported from someone elses Templot? Regards /Leo Attachment: attach_1210_1661_market_street_11 _10_23_0142_06_mm.dxf 201 Last edited on 23 Oct 2011 00:52 by leo_sandstrom posted: 23 Oct 2011 03:12 from: Martin Wynne Hi Leo, The problem is the decimal separator character in the Windows international settings. (Comma for decimal fractions instead of dot.) There is a bug in Templot related to this, but I'm not sure it explains what you are seeing in DoubleCad. Please could you draw a very simple DXF file in DoubleCad on your system and post it here. i.e. just a few straight lines at random. Thanks. The reason it imports into Templot is that Templot ignores all the header stuff on import. 3am here and I'm too tired to write proper English, sorry. Martin. posted: 23 Oct 2011 10:14 from ...
... a "continue" button, you can simply leave it there and carry on. Or drag it out of the way, or click hide, or press the ESC key. The child dialogs can all be dragged using the top caption bar in the same way as other windows, although it's not obvious because the caption bar is not a different colour in later versions of Windows: 2_270025_430000000.png CTRL+ F3 should be working, although as you are using Linux there may be a problem with the shortcut key. Try pressing 3 instead on the main keyboard, or clicking the relevant action> control/geometry> menu item. However, you don't need it because you can now click the do> blank up to V-crossing menu item instead. Not for the first time of saying so, I'm really very sorry that the tandem video is so out of date. I must try to find the time to make a new one soon. If anyone can tell me how to make a smooth-running screen video without spending the hours and hours ...
90. frog wing
... topic: 1395 frog wing posted: 1 Mar 2011 00:14 from: traindriverluke hi all Im new to templot (0.91.c). I model in N scale and Ive been making up some turnout templates for my layout which is based on bendigo in victoria, Australia. We use a frog angle of 1.52. I have two questions 1. Could some one tell me how to make the frog wing go straight at the end instead of flaring out to the side. I'll attach a file of it. 2. Ive been playing around with double slips. I noticed it takes a few templates on top of each other to make it. Once done is there away to make it one whole templete. There are many in the yard and would save a huge amout of time. Thanks for your help luke Attachment: attach_998_1395_vr_turnouts.box 180 posted: 1 Mar 2011 00:40 from: Martin Wynne traindriverluke wrote: 1. Could some one tell me how to make the frog wing go straight at the end instead of flaring out to the side ...
91. Slips
... crossing angle you need I'll see what I may have lurking, assuming it's a straight slip. You will then have to work out how to handle groups of templates. Brian- thanks for the PDF. I've been meaning to do something similar myself for some time! posted: 6 Mar 2011 14:11 from: sm Thanks Paul, I must be really thick because I can't even see how to attach a file to this post to show you what I'm trying to achieve. If you can imagine a sissor crossing but instead of the righthand side being turnouts they are instead single slips. So two roads diverge into four, I'd attach diagram but it would seem that even that is beyond me, The gauge is 2mm. I can do all the simple things within Templot but this slip building is just far to complexed, it's a shame Martin that you don't do a lite version for those of us who would be quite happy with simple track plans to drag and drop into place. Anyway I've just spent 5hrs at this thing and the pc ...
... automatically. A C-12 or even C-14 is listed for some companies, but strike me as unlikely sizes to find on the ground. None list a B-12. On the other hand, if you change the B-12 to a generic or curviform V-crossing, you hit a different problem -- there is no possible irregular half-diamond which can fit for the the 3rd V-crossing, hence the exception. For such a tandem it would be necessary to use a gaunt turnout instead for the 3rd crossing (as used in the double-sided tandems). Thanks for reporting this. I will put additional checks on the starting size in the next update, and do some more testing. If it seems that the no-fit exception will occur for reasonable turnout sizes, I will add a fresh block of code to switch to a gaunt turnout for the 3rd V-crossing. But a gaunt turnout won't fit for the shorter single-sided tandems, which is why they are using an irregular ...
93. 'Slewing' curves
... grips with Templot and have a question about the following plan: 2828_261151_010000000.png Based on the map, it appears that the track needs to be 'dragged down' in the centre to conform with the plan but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this? John posted: 26 Jan 2018 17:08 from: Martin Wynne Hi John, For that you need the swell mouse action. See: http://templot.com/companion/swell_function_ctrl_f10.php Looking at your plan it is probably not a single radius. Instead of using swell you could start with the turnout, make branch track from it, curve the branch track to the line, and then make transition to the existing straight track. For an example of this process, see: http://templot.com/companion/link_existing.php That keeps everything aligned, whereas swell takes the ends of the template out of angular alignment with adjacent templates. Swell is normally used on an isolated template which is not aligned with any others. cheers, Martin. posted: 26 Jan 2018 17 ...
94. Another one lost
... crossing options>? K-crossings- help menu item. Here are the actual notes: Because the K-crossing point rails need to be supported on a timber at their tips, if you are using overscale flangeway gaps it is necessary to modify the timber positions from the prototype spacings. Click the REAL> TIMBERING> HALF-DIAMOND TIMBERING> TIMBERING AS MODEL menu option to do this. If you are using exact-scale or near exact-scale flangeways (e.g. S4/P4 or S7), select instead the REAL> TIMBERING> HALF-DIAMOND TIMBERING> TIMBERING AS PROTOTYPE menu option. regards, Martin. posted: 17 Jan 2014 10:06 from: Peter Ayre Hi Martin, Just remember" there is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about" (OW). Unless you do a Gerald Ratner!!!! For the record I have also used anyrail (boo,hiss) and would disagree with the comments about it. I'm sure the scarm users feel ...
... diamond- can I alter the regular for the switched variety? Last edited on 23 Jan 2013 10:22 by CoBo posted: 23 Jan 2013 10:20 from: Martin Wynne CoBo wrote: I fail to see how this can work if both sets of point blades are fixed to a common shared central timber as shown on the diagram Hi Mike, Prototype point blades are not fixed to timbers. That happens only in some types of model track -- using a sliding timber as a simple means of moving the points instead of one or more separate stretcher bars. There is a good diagram of prototype arrangements and stretcher bars in the Grayrigg accident report (on pages 10 and 11): download: http://www.raib.gov.uk/cms_resources/081023_R202008_Grayrigg_v5.pdf from: http://www.raib.gov.uk/publications/investigation_reports/reports_2008/report202008.cfm regards, Martin. posted: 23 Jan 2013 10:28 from: Martin Wynne CoBo wrote: EDIT: I've managed to make a regular diamond using the 'peg/align' tool (quite simple when you know ...
... is or was???). But after that I couldn't see that I needed to do any further alignment so I didn't do any of the following. Is this where I went wrong. If it was then for some reason I couldn't see that any further alignment was necessary?- Click transition template and align one half-diamond over it and snake onto peg.- Use F9 mouse action to align the V-crossing over the underlying rails.- Repeat the above with the other half-diamond. So instead I simply split the transition curve in the middle of the Diamond and pulled them (the two halves of the transition curve) back clear of the diamond, deleted the extra template that had been created I think at the beginning of the process- Delete to the control? and was about to feel pleased with myself, if a little puzzled when I read your last line and in particular the last half of that line about extending the diamonds- Delete the underlying template(s) and extend the half-diamonds to ...
... or unprototypical switch/crossing combinations and see the result quickly. You can also of course set up any switch/crossing combination you wish by using the template menu options. *to get an exact match to the prototype lead length shown in the list you need to be using an exact-scale track gauge, and in Templot you should set a generic type of V-crossing and do> convert RAM to CLM unit angles. (Where a dimension A is shown in the list, set a regular V-crossing instead.) regards, Martin. posted: 26 Aug 2010 16:07 from: Brian Nicholls Martin Wynne wrote: I have updated Allan's text with a few extra remarks in places. I hope you don't mind Allan? There was no mention of F7 snapping, which is mainly for beginners, so I added a note about that:____ Update: In the latest versions of Templot you can simply snap the templates together using the mouse with F7. Just move the brown template until one end is close ...
... clicked on? Judi posted: 17 Nov 2010 11:45 from: Martin Wynne Judi R wrote: If I understand you correctly, "Make the control" and "Delete to the control" do pretty much the same thing? Hi Judi, Not quite -- like all the menu items containing the word "make", make the control first stores the existing control template on the background. (Unless its length is zero.) If the word "delete" is a worry, click wipe to the control instead. That way the previous template is still safely in the storage box and in the .box file, should you need to get it back at any time. Here's a summary: 1. copy to the control -- copy the clicked background template to the control template and leave the background template unchanged in the track plan. 2. wipe to the control -- copy the clicked background template to the control template and then remove the background template from the track plan. But leave it in the storage box as an ...
99. RH_Curved tandem
... then I get stuck. Deciding where to slide to just becomes confusion. Hi Trevor, Tandem turnouts are not simple. They can be straight or curved. They can be double-sided (opposite hands), where the middle road is the main road for both switches. Or single-sided (both the same hand), where an outer road is the main road for both switches. Or they can be type 2 tandems (less common) where the second switch is in the turnout road of the first switch instead of the main road. The two turnouts can be dozens of different sizes, or quite odd sizes. The V-crossings can each be regular, generic, or curviform type. If regular type, the turnout lead lengths can be adjusted by changing the crossing entry straight. Somehow you have to find a way through this maze and find a workable design which fits your site. It is nearly always possible, but in the process there are several issues which you have to keep in mind and look out for, ...
... /s4p4_ds_8_on_15 24mm.box" Unfortunately, this link no longer exists and I'd really like to use the template. Is it still available somewhere? Neil posted: 19 Dec 2009 21:40 from: Martin Wynne NeilD wrote: Martin, Back in the depths of time (19/08/01), you posted a file Hi Neil, That's going back a bit. It would have been created in an old version of Templot without the option of half-diamond templates, which would have been done as customized turnout templates instead. No doubt I deleted it when half-diamonds were added in later versions, as that file would no longer be properly representative of the Templot functionality. I should have it still somewhere in my backup files, but why would you want it? You can create a much better template using the latest 091c version of Templot. Put the first 1:8 half-diamond on the 1524mm radius, and then follow the slip tutorial at: http://www.templot.com/martweb/pug_slips.htm regards, Martin. posted ...
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