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1. Amazed Newby
... function of chord length of same-radii tangents emanating from the frog point? In the US I wasn't aware that standard gage track work varied at all across railroad companies. I'm told I'm quite wrong about that, and I will check for recorded standards. Are there North American standards now incorporated into the Templot generic libraries of N-Scale (9 -mm) or HO Scale (1 :67) track switches? Thank you all in advance for your help. I'll be quiet until having read the referenced documents. Jeff Thompson Florida- flatland railroading! posted: 17 Mar 2012 23:11 from: Tony W Hello Jeff. I am not really up on US track and how it is specified. UK track specifies the Crossing and Switch angles by offsets. For instance a 1 in 6 crossing will widen 1 unit for every 6 units distance from the crossing nose. Switch blades are similar but use letters A to F or G for predefined angles. On the heading page (go back one) take a look under the Templot Companion ...
... book on building track (I thought I had one but can't find it) or is this wishful thinking? Regards Len posted: 13 May 2009 23:32 from: Brian Lewis Len Cattley wrote: Am I right in thinking that Iain Rice did a book on building track (I thought I had one but can't find it) or is this wishful thinking? I think Iain wrote two books Len- one on copperclad, the other finescale. But a better and more up to date book is 'Track Construction' by Jeff Geary and John Shaw. ISBN 0954203593 Jeff also wrote another book entitled 'Wiring the Layout'. Sadly, this is now out of print and apparently unlikely to be reprinted. So if you locate the former and see the latter, it would be worth purchasing it. Regards Brian Lewis posted: 13 May 2009 23:38 from: Martin Wynne Brian Lewis wrote: But a better and more up to date book is 'Track Construction' by Jeff Geary and John Shaw. ISBN 0954203593 Hi Len, I wrote a short ...
... for some reason spotify freezes!!? Peter posted: 18 Mar 2012 22:15 from: jeffthom Hi All, I am also running Templot under Ubuntu Linux, release 11.10, with latest patches. Wine simply opened the installer and installed Templot. Built a simple loop+ bypass, pdf printer works, sketchpad works fine (! ), saves, loads. Bless you Martin- another US$150.00 saved! Yes, I shall tithe a portion, as will most of us- ummmm... right lads?? Jeff Thompson posted: 18 Mar 2012 22:36 from: jeffthom Martin Wynne wrote: Bumping this old topic. More and more users are running Templot on a Mac and/or Linux using Crossover/Wine, so I thought it was high time I tried it for myself. <CLIP> On the other hand the visual appearance is awful. Instead of the native Ubuntu styles which I was expecting the windows are rendered as for an ancient classic Windows version from about 1993! The font for the menus and window caption ...
... . I recently purchased Trax3 and have encountered some frustrating issues. After writing to the editor, Noodle Books, I've been directed to Templot. My questions are: What is the connection between Templot and Trax? How do I post a question on the discussion group? Best regards from Belgium Jack posted: 28 Jun 2014 12:08 from: Martin Wynne Hello Jack, Welcome to Templot Club. There is no direct connection between Trax and Templot. Trax (currently Trax3) is a paid-for computer program written by Jeff Geary and available on CD from Noodle Books: http://billhudsontransportbooks.co.uk/selected-product.php?pid=3521 Templot (currently Templot2) is a computer program written by me and available as a free download: http://templot.uk The programs are not directly comparable. Templot2 contains many more track design functions than Trax3. Against that Trax3 includes electrical control design (DC) and signal interlocking functions which are not in Templot2. As a paid-for product Trax3 also comes with a book containing practical modelling help ...
... as your description of the best practices. I agree with Matthew's conclusion that you, Martin, can really not afford to add much effort to the documentation issue under discussion here. A bit of gathering of the bits and pieces, plus organization by one of us who is reasonably good at it would pay largest returns, IMHO. Also, as stated previously, a user must be willing to put in some continuing, preferably scheduled and organized, time and effort to get past the "hello world" level of expertise. Jeff Thompson posted: 12 Jul 2012 07:28 from: Mark C Hi Guys, I am a newbie to Templot from Florida, USA (Hi Jeff) and am very excited to have found this marvelous software. I am just getting into hand-laying HO track. So, I have little or no experience in that department. However, I have used lots and lots of computer software programs. When I attempt to learn a new piece of software, I start by skimming through the User Manual, watching a ...
... they wished. But I made no attempt to follow Windows conventions because at the time I had no idea what they were (and wasn't very impressed when I found out). I was simply faced with a brand new unknown computer and a program which I wanted to make work on it. Nothing much has changed in the subsequent years and isn't now likely to. There are others with more Windows software experience who have written similar programs, and clearly if full Windows compliance is important those could be used instead. For example Jeff Geary has created Trax3, and there is S21 ModelGleis from Bernd Steimann and Christian Sender. However, I don't believe Templot is difficult to use provided you don't start off expecting it to be something which it isn't. In the early days most folks had much smaller screens, and keeping as much of it as possible clear for track design was important. So for example the mouse action panel can be hidden from view if it is in the way (the Delete key toggles it, or simply click on it), ...
... user programmable feature is needed, either customisable right click menus, custom screen buttons, optionally replacing existing ones, or even a user definable menu, common stuff these days on most software Regards and a happy new year Dave posted: 30 Dec 2017 01:14 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: common stuff these days on most software Hi Dave, That aspect doesn't concern me much. I'm not really interested in what happens in other software unless it would clearly be helpful in the design of model railway track. For example Jeff Geary's Trax has an ingenious dummy template which can be used as a double-track spacer. I've been minded to steal that idea for years. What would be helpful would be to know which specific functions you would want to assign to a custom button or menu item or keyboard shortcut? The internal design of Templot having been developed piecemeal over 20 years, would make it a major coding task to allow any function to be assigned to any button. What I do feel is that it is easy to forget that Templot ...
8. Trax
... few days. Patience. Cheers for now John from 33820 St Ciers sur Gironde France. I have received the following reply from Noodle Books. TRAX 3 is imminent. I am expecting page proofs to arrive tomorrow (Monday) whilst the programme is complete and will taken to the CD duplicated on the same day. Release will be at the start of September ready for Telford.{ Gauge 0 Guild event} "TRAX 3' SIGNALLING& LEVER FRAMES THE RENOWNED AND EASY TO USE 'TRAX' computer programme is back. Author JEFF GEARY explores the possibilities of controlling a model railway in prototypical fashion, namely by operating points and signals from a signal-box style lever frame. Making the frame mechanically interlocked, ensures that trains can only be signalled when the correct route is set, and that conflicting routes cannot be set at the same time. This new book also explains the principles of signalling, the different types of signal and their significance, and how a typical track diagram would be signalled. The application of these principles to the model railway is ...
... locally and glued in! -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Finally, thank you again for providing us with this tool. I'll be sending along a few more quid for your lager fund directly. Right lads??? Jeff Thompson posted: 2 Jun 2012 00:14 from: Ian Allen Cracked it, thanks to Martin once again 1951_011913_210000000.png I replied to the RMWeb thread too Regards Ian posted: 2 Jun 2012 09:14 from: Alan Turner I have been using TEMPLOT for a long time and I suppose I have grown up with it. I like it and it is far and away the premier trackwork design tool available. However that is what it is, it is not a pick and plonk toy trainset programme such as AnyRail. ...
... many alternatives to Templot for designing handbuilt track, but there is a new kid on the block from Andy Reichert& David Honner. A free trial version is available: CTnCT Designer: http://www.proto87.com/CTnCT_designer.html Other alternatives to Templot are: S21 ModelGleis from Bernd Steimann and Christian Sender: http://www.s21-modellgleis.de/index.php?seite=programm English translation in Google: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?u =http://www.s21-modellgleis.de/index.php%3Fseite%3Dprogramm TRAX3 from Jeff Geary: http://www.amazon.co.uk/TRAX-3 -Signalling-Lever-Frames/dp/1906419612/ Just to add that the above are all paid-for software (Templot has been free to use for 5 years now). There are lots of other track planning programs of course, but none of them is much use for designing handbuilt track templates. regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> ...
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