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161. Templot docs
... . I am not saying that I will not be able to learn Templot without a manual, only that for me it will be more difficult. To those of you who have mastered it already, using what is available, I say well done Just be aware that not all people's minds work the same and I, whether from previous training or inherently, need to take each step and fully understand what and why I am doing it. Its the way I am I find videos hard to use for reasons I have given previously and won't go into here, simply put I create my own step by step instructions from the video. I do find videos essential when a complex move is being demonstrated. @Alan McMillan You are quit correct I totally misunderstood what you said for which I apologise. Referring to one of your earlier statements "Learn by doing rather than reading; you'll learn more and you'll learn it faster than if you sit down with the manual. Even if an indexed manual existed, you would still have to sit down and work ...
162. Lost shapes file
... topic: 1030 Lost shapes file posted: 30 Jan 2010 22:50 from: Paul Boyd HI Martin (If my previous post on this subject turns up, I don't know what happened!) Anyway, I just reloaded a previously saved shape file that contained one bitmap, one rectangle and one line, and got the following: 105_301735_260000000.png That description isn't anything I would enter, and the timestamp is about 15 minutes earlier than the file timestamp. Look at the coordinates- that line is going nowhere! Any ideas what might have happened? I can't think of anything I was doing differently, and the file was saved by overwriting the previous file (I usually do this for shape files). Fortunately this particular shape file won't be difficult to recreate! posted: 31 Jan 2010 02:42 from: Martin Wynne Hi Paul, Thanks for the report. A "pen-line" background shape is created when using the draw function with the spacing-ring tool. If you haven't moved the spacing-ring you will get a ...
... Getting a crossing to go where I want it... posted: 27 Jan 2010 23:40 from: Nick R I am trying to get the basic crossing half diamonds in place so that I can start creating a double slip. The crossing was done by 'Tools/make ladder crossover' on a turnout in one side of a curved section of double track. All would be well, except that I don't want the crossing line to curve back towards the double track but, rather to diverge from it. I've previously made a single slip in straight track, but am completely flummoxed by trying to do this to fit into an existing plan and space. The attached box file contains the main bits extracted from a larger plan. The crossing (half diamonds 3 and 6) should diverge from the curved lines to meet up with line 1 in the upper right. The main running lines can't be moved (too much) as they already exist. Template 1 could be moved a bit, but i'd prefer to keep most of it very ...
... quite what Canon intended, but it works and is probably a heck of a lot cheaper than printer manufacturer's specialist papers. posted: 13 Feb 2010 22:45 from: David Hiya guys Thanks for all your replies, been a while gettting back due to trials and tribulations. Tried the 160gsm on the PX710W Printer and amazingly, it worked fine. I can see the advantage of using the thicker paper and tried martins method of butting sheets together, which with the thicker paper, seemed better than overlapping which i had tried previously. Tried reverting to my old epson 870 Stylus Photo, but the results were marginal. Although the rear paper feed does lend itself to thicker papers. I have discovered that by adding 1 sheet at a time in a staggered configuation, in a landscape orgination, it was possible to achive good rresults. I think this may have been an oversight on my part regarding previous experiments and correct methods. Thanks for your efforts and support calls, Derek.... and martin, thx for your support to.. ...
... topic: 1075 Fooling around with different methods of track construction posted: 11 Mar 2010 17:44 from: polybear (Apologies if anyone has seen this on RMWeb also) Hi, I'm currently experimenting with different methods of trackmaking, to see what I like best and to learn the techniques. I've previously made a turnout using plastic components, but it wasn't too successful first time round (my fault). I've also been experimenting with Masokits etched brass chairs and pcb sleepers (pretty reasonable, very strong, looks reasonable but does take time). I'm now onto pcb trackwork (very strong, fast, but attaching chairs is a pain because they are too high due to the rail sitting directly on the sleeper). Now I've just tried ply and rivet, which I do like; however again there are problems attaching chairs because the size of the rivet head means the chair half is held away from the rail, even though I'm using the smaller copper rivets with 2mm diameter head. Any suggestions with regard to fitting half chairs to pcb ...
166. Double Junction
... I am actually still designing. I am not trying to exactly match the Peco Turnouts with Templot Turnouts but start with a rubbing in each case and take it from there. The continuous run was built before I got Templot but the rest of my design has been discarded in view of the greater opportunities now open to me through Templot. However in two locations a double junction is still the best option to allow me to transition to and from the other parts of my future design. Both are on straight stretches and, having previously been constructed using standard Peco parts, do NOT involve "irregular diamond crossings" if that is still the accepted term. My question is could someone out there point me in the direction of anything which covers the construction of Double Junctions? I have searched Templot but have not found anything describing the construction of a Double Junction. I intend to make these "freestyle" ,ie without rubbings, as I have never been happy with what I was forced to accept using Peco. @Martin If you intend to provide an ...
... largely ignore the peg and notch functions. If you watch this video showing a small bit of track plan being created, you can see that they are never explicitly used -- and that's even without using F7 snapping: http://www.templot.com/martweb/videos/flash/starter/em_starter.html This video is without a doubt the most valuable part of the documentation for me so far, I must have run it at least 10 time in the past. I am replacing all of the Peco Turnouts and Crossings I had previously laid. I do this by taking a rubbing and using it as the starting point, hence the value of the video which covers everything I need to draw my new set ups. The resulting template usually finishes up different in at least some aspects as I am willing to re-lay the tracks already in place to achieve better results both in appearance and function. I must add that so far I have only drawn the templates and these have disappeared as you may remember from a previous topic. In addition my C ...
168. Transition curves
... topic: 1203 Transition curves posted: 15 Aug 2010 12:42 from: Judi R Hi, I've been trying to get my head around Templot for the past few days and scored a major victory today when I finally cottoned on to how to re-select a template previously placed onto the background without getting a duplicate on top. I have the disadvantage of having used AutoCad and similar packages beforehand, even though it was a long time ago. Now I'm trying to get to grips with transitions. I've managed to create a transition curve from a straight to a circular curve, although the "start" and "finish" were at the opposite ends to where I expected them. Now I want to create a transition curve at the other end of the circular curve back to a straight. I've read through the tutorials and watched the videos, but I can't find anything on this. I've placed a straight alongside the end of the curve and have tried to link them with a transition but Templot says it can't but won't say why. ...
169. Mac advice needed
... > On-Screen Keyboard from the Windows taskbar. It stays on top and you can drag it around to keep it out of your way. regards, Martin. posted: 7 Sep 2010 08:25 from: John Priestley Thanks Martin, I knew i had seen the name pad removal before but had not fallen over it recently. The keyboard i did not even know about, that will, I hope solve so many things. Regards John posted: 13 Oct 2010 20:12 from: Simon Dunkley I have previously mentioned that I was using Parallels on my Mac, but this was with Vista- I couldn't get hold of a copy of XP at the time. Not the cheapest option. It ran dog slow, so I "upgraded" and it was even slower. Recently my employer (me) acquired a Laptop with W7 on it as indicated above and so I moved Templot over to that and things were a lot better. However, having Templot on my work computer was proving to be more than a little distracting, ...
... .] I had to use the 2-year-old Ubuntu 10.04LTS 32-bit version[ ...] the visual appearance is awful[ ...] Is this what other users are seeing? Hi Martin, I didn't have any problem installing Wine under Ubuntu 11.04 nor when upgrading to 11.10 (64-bit versions). I don't get the ugly fonts you experienced, though some of the soft keys have corrupted legends as in your screenshot. Here's my screenshot, for comparison: 62_180529_340000000.png Incidentally, I previously reported occasional problems with Templot timber shoving data entry under Wine- it took unusually long (sometimes 30-60 seconds) for each line to be accepted, though if one was patient it didn't lock up. It wasn't more than a mild inconvenience. Recently though I upgraded my (relatively puny: i3@1.33GHz 4) laptop's RAM from 4GB to 8GB, for unrelated reasons. Now the slow-data-entry-in-Templot issue seems to have gone away.... interesting. I'm not expert ...
... I have been thinking about a possible orientation problem of the image in both 'sketchboard' and 'workpad', the inspection pits my be in the wrong place in a particular case (other objects may be in the way), so will 'split off' these two items and produce two images (1 – the turntable and main pit, 2 – the two inspection pits, invisible linked and diametrically opposed at scale size) that can be joined (or not) in whatever positions are required. This is thanks to Howard's suggestion previously posted. I eliminated the idea of splitting out the actual turntable as this may prove to have more difficult line-up problems. One thing I have been meaning to ask is, can you place, say, parts of images over another so that the upper image part masks out that bit of the lower image (considering transparency). This is all to do with the way things might have to be drawn to get flexibility to the images (Howard's suggestion again). I have received a couple of very welcome ...
... . I do agree with your thoughts, that the best place to start to build is from the diamond, particularly bearing in mind my statement added below about partial templates and curves in my next posting. Regarding the four way, I may consider trying to split it, and build as normal from the front in each case, but time and mistakes will tell. Best regards. Brian. posted: 2 Sep 2010 17:33 from: Brian Nicholls Hi All, I have today started to do the timbering on the previously posted formation, however, I cannot seem to get the timbers back on the two halves of the diamond crossing, does anyone have any idea why this is? Also I would like to clear up one erroneous point I mentioned on the formation, I did make a slight TYPO when I stated that "I used a straight 1:4 diamond crossing, and I did not intend, at this stage, to get involved with trying to make a curved diamond out of partial templates". This implied that the whole ...
... topic: 1230 A case of missing timbers posted: 4 Sep 2010 19:26 from: Brian Nicholls Hi All, Having started to do the timbering on the previously posted formation, 'Bham_New_Street_Sig4-492-BS' reference: topic 1227 however, I cannot seem to get the timbers back on the two halves of the diamond crossing, (these are templates 55 and 57) does anyone have any idea why this is? Best regards. Brian Nicholls. posted: 4 Sep 2010 19:56 from: Martin Wynne Brian Nicholls wrote: however, I cannot seem to get the timbers back on the two halves of the diamond crossing, (these are templates 55 and 57) does anyone have any idea why this is? Hi Brian, Delete to the control, then real> timbering> equalized- constant menu item. p.s. Please don't copy and paste from a word processor. It makes a mess of the formatting, especially for the emails, Yahoo archive, and subsequent quoting. If you want to prepare your text off- ...
... ? Am I mad? But they ought to be the same? Hi Richard, One has a generic type of V-crossing and the other has a regular type of V-crossing: gen_xing.gif reg_xing.gif Full details at: http://www.templot.com/martweb/gs_realtrack.htm#xing_types regards, Martin. posted: 10 Oct 2010 22:15 from: Richard Spratt I'd guessed it was something to do with the crossing. But what I don't understand is that I made both templates one after the other by inserting them into previously drawn straight templates and they got different crossing types? posted: 9 Feb 2011 07:46 from: Gordon S Whilst searching for the answer, I came across this and am unsure if this is the same process. If I take a 1000mm radius circle and insert a turnout, the radius comes out at 1000mm as you would expect. The turnout is an A5. However, if I now draw a straight line which is tangental to the 1000mm circle and then insert a turnout in the straight line, once it ...
... for the 'Eureka' moment when the penny dropped. Little things please li.... Bill posted: 1 Oct 2010 18:02 from: Glen Suckling Martin Wynne wrote: Oh dear, do we need a handy hint to explain the handy hint? Hi Martin (and Bill, Bill and Nigel), Thanks for the speedy replies. As soon as I realized that it was a side elevation everything became clear. I just tried it out on a piece of Code 125 BH rail and it works well. Previously I had just filed away until it looked OK. I like the idea of the handy hints- although you may need a little patience with people like me who are slow on the uptake. Regards, Glen posted: 3 Oct 2010 09:06 from: David Higgs Must admit, I didn't understand the Switch Blade 'Handy Hint' although the Transition Curve is something that I feel is a 'Handy Hint'. David Last edited on 3 Oct 2010 09:07 by David Higgs posted: 3 Oct 2010 20: ...
... the peg on the background template without putting the notch under it, hold down the SHIFT key while clicking the sub-menu item.) Notice that the current peg position (CTRL-5 TXP in this case) is greyed out in the sub-menu -- moving the peg to its existing position is meaningless. I've listed as many peg positions as seems sensible in the sub-menu. If you want to move it to some other position it will be necessary to delete the template to the control, as previously. (Or set one of the other peg positions as the user-defined position.) regards, Martin. posted: 7 Jun 2012 17:50 from: Paul Boyd Wow- thanks, Martin- that's brilliant! That menu really will make life easier. I promise not to make any more comments along the lines of "not doing any more coding" Looking forward to the next release... posted: 25 Jul 2012 03:09 from: Martin Wynne Martin Wynne wrote: At present the preferred ...
... play when it was saved. This is instead of the mint from last template loaded option which is the current default and will remain for older files or files not saved while in this mode. In the classic Templot mode, everything will continue to work exactly as it does now, with the addition of the make the control menu option which will often be a useful time saver. I have given these new modes the PageUp and PageDown shortcuts so that experienced users can quickly swap modes if they wish. (These shortcuts were previously on the little-used zoom-free option.) The new make on click mode will be the default (unless you set your preferences otherwise) and will I think address some of the concerns of new users and make Templot track planning work in a way more similar to many Windows programs. It will of course be a damn nuisance when building complex formations from multiple partial templates, and I fully expect experienced users to switch back to the classic Templot mode for such work. And probably much else. The much ...
... it as a serious or particularly viable proposition (I know it's a "time-management" issue balancing requests for support against developing an easy to understand set of help/user manual but you often seem to be dragged backwards by facile requests for support, which a little bit of lateral thinking and attempts at self-help would solve and also educate the "User" more effectively than you doing it for them. I often marvel at the patience and speed of response that you provide to such requests. (I was previously Head of ICT for a large organisation and the term "Users" was often applied in a derogatory sense when our "Customers" stepped over the boundaries of common sense, abdicated attempts at self-help and fell back upon the patience and professionalism of our support service!)) For me, it would be a better investment of your time to continue developing functionality on the existing platform but prioritise this against keeping documentation up to date and releasing the much anticipated and long awaited version 1.0. Regards, Neil posted: ...
... . Many thanks Mick. Most of these can be seen at a much larger original size (and with captions) by viewing them in the Image Gallery at: http://85a.co.uk/forum/gallery_view.php?user=1571#gallery_top 1571_031813_010000000.jpg 1571_031811_130000001.jpg 1571_031811_110000000.jpg 1571_031808_110000001.jpg 1571_031808_090000000.jpg 1571_031804_110000001.jpg 1571_031804_090000000.jpg 1571_031801_130000002.jpg 1571_031801_110000001.jpg 1571_031801_110000000.jpg 1571_031751_290000002.jpg 1571_031751_280000001.jpg 1571_031751_270000000.jpg 1571_031741_180000001.jpg 1571_031741_170000000.jpg 1571_031740_040000000.jpg 1571_031740_040000001.jpg Martin. posted: 4 Jan 2011 15:08 from: JFS An excellent resource of useful stuff! Regarding the picture of the double junction being relayed, Mick sent me a copy of this previously and, despite the caption, I am not convinced that these are C10- they look much more like C8 to me. Any views? Regards, Howard. posted: 4 Jan 2011 15:47 from: Martin Wynne JFS wrote: I am not convinced that these are C10- they look much more like C8 to me. Any views? Hi Howard, 16 "T" timbers in the picture between the stock rail joint and the wing rail joint. At the default spacing Templot makes that a C9.5 But ...
... track has now been built and laid, apart from the loco depot and the 3-way crossover in the terminal platforms. I've laid the track on some industrial grade lino underlay which was left over from a bus restoration job. It's 3mm thick and quite firm. I used an industrial grade adhesive to stick the tack down, more left-overs from the same bus project! It appears to be a rubber based glue, so should in theory be water soluble in case i ever need to lift any track! Having previously built the layout using P*** fine scale track, the difference in appearance using finescale OO is amazing. One problem is that there's quite a bit of rewiring to do as a couple of points have moved onto adjacent baseboards. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Share and show> A Frank Dyer designed layout about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click ...
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