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... wiring and point controls on the surface rather then underneath. So there's a servo stuck to a piece of plasticard( to act as the base that I can screw to the baseboard) which I'm hoping to hide under the platforms and I've cut trenches through the cork for both the wire in a tube control from servo to turnout, and trenches for the wiring runs to the various sections/ districts. When I've installed the wiring and turnout controls and "made good" then I'll make a start on laying sleepers as I have previously. But this time I must remember to give the plan a wash of brown paint to kill the white. Without that any defect in the ballast shows up white like a sore thumb. At this stage I'm still thinking I'll keep the servo wiring subterranean and again as far away from the traction power as possible. Not that I've experienced any problems( so far) with board no5 when testing it out, but that was only one loco trundling up and down. 2787_241736_380000000.jpg Time will tell on that one. Kind regards ...
... few strokes with a fine file and a final polish with abrasive paper will do that. It's also a good idea to take a few thou off the top of the vee nose so that it dips down slightly below the wing rails. This allows for the coning angle on the wheels as they run off the wing rail onto the nose, producing smoother running. Here are some further diagrams, showing how most of the work can be done after assembly of the vee. This requires only 3 cuts instead of 4 in total previously, and cleans up any slight mismatch at the tip and any stray solder. It's difficult to hold an assembled vee this way for filing, but fairly easily arranged on a disc sander. As before the rail is shown in horizontal cross-section, yellow is the rail head and orange is the web of the rail: vee_assy.png A is the point rail, simply bent at the end at the crossing angle. B is the splice rail, as A but cut back as shown. C, D, E are ...
... was snap plain track to nearest sleeper). main-side K-crossing check rail flare -- bug fixed. template> reset menu items removed. CTRL+ Z shortcut now on rebuild group menu item. new modify on rebuild option on storage box for trackbed edges. new menu item for trackbed edges geometry> modify group to match. The trackbed edge settings are now specific to each template. This rebuild function allows fast transfer of the settings to a group or an entire track plan. The trackbed edge settings were previously a generator setting, so this function replaces that functionality: 2_291125_420000000.png K-crossing check rail settings added to omit rails dialog: 2_291841_420000000.png IMPORTANT: If you have saved from previous TDV versions any .box files containing half-diamond templates with fixed K-crossings, when you reload those files in this TDV version, these K-crossing check rails will be missing from the templates. You should click do> omit rails and joint marks... to see the above dialog and tick these two boxes to restore the K ...
4. Forum emails
... site, 2) is the only option. (At present I am manually posting such emails on the forums for members.) regards, Martin. posted: 7 Jul 2007 16:54 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, Some ISPs are being lazy and using IP blocks as spam filters instead of actually checking for spam content. This can mean that direct emails from Templot Club get blocked because some other domain is sending spam from the same hosting provider as templot.com. Currently known ISPs doing this are: AOL Supanet (Previously there was a similar problem with Comcast, but that seems to have resolved.) If my ISP was doing that, I would be extremely annoyed that my legitimate emails were being blocked in this way, and I should be looking for a different ISP. If you are on the above ISPs you won't be getting emails direct from Templot Club at present, so I suggest you remain on the Yahoo group and receive forum emails that way. You may want to contact your ISP and ask them why they are blocking your ...
... They need to be something separate, generated by Templot itself, and included in the DXF export. This requires a new layer in the DXF export, so will need some work on the DXF export code (which I haven't looked at for years). I have dusted off (literally) my 1985 AutoCAD User Handbook and been re-reading the chapter on generating DXF files. The block information is substantially the same as in your link, but thanks for that. If I don't need to include in the export any previously-imported complex 3D data, the whole process moves up several notches on the doable scale. So I hope to have something you can try fairly soon. regards, Martin. posted: 7 Jan 2016 18:55 from: Andrew Barrowman Great! Thanks. posted: 7 Jan 2016 20:43 from: Andrew Barrowman Hi Martin As I mentioned, I have TC16Pro and TCdeluxe21. They don't have compatible native file formats, but they can exchange files in DXF format. I have attached the DFX for the latest ...
... - as you have broadband you presumably only have one provider for that, so you have to use their SMTP servers for all outgoing email because other ISPs won't allow you to use their's if you're not connected to them- it isn't an option to just use one server. If either your broadband or the ISP goes down, you just switch to dial-up from another ISP and use their servers instead, which Thunderbird handles much better than OE (the easiest way is to just temporarily change the default SMTP server from the previously set up list). Or have I misunderstood something? Sending email from different accounts in Thunderbird is very easy- you just pull down the appropriate account in the 'From' box in the Compose window. I do this all the time as, for instance, my E4um email address is different to the Yahoo groups email address is different from my default email address etc., This also picks up the correct signature for each account and uses the SMTP server tied into that account if you've changed it from the default. ...
... temporarily uninstall Avast to allow the upload can I be certain that the new version hasn't acquired any unpleasant add-ons? Regards David posted: 7 Oct 2015 10:04 from: Raymond I use Bitdefender and the the new Templot installed without any problems at all and runs perfectly. Some setting in Avast perhaps? Raymond posted: 7 Oct 2015 10:44 from: David Long It's very odd. I have been running Avast on successive machines fro around five or six years but it has never so firmly blocked any updates previously. David posted: 7 Oct 2015 12:36 from: JFS David Long wrote: It's very odd. I have been running Avast on successive machines fro around five or six years but it has never so firmly blocked any updates previously. David Hi David, Perhaps not so odd really- unless you are not updating it, the Avast you are running now is vastly different from the one you were running five or six months ago, let alone 5 or 6 years ago! I confess I have just about given ...
... new clamp strip... You don't really get any wear at the pointy end as the file only touches the rail there. I will try to post a few pics over the next couple of days. Howard. posted: 27 Mar 2011 15:16 from: JFS Hello Chaps, Just a quick update showing how I do Switch Tongues. First a confession, these pics show the use of a little clamp to hold the toe of the tongue: well, I only made it about half an hour ago. Previously, I always used my thumb for this job! In these health and safety conscious days, I thought the pics should show a proper job! (It took me about 10 minutes to make the clamp...) Firstly, filing the backs of the tongues... Here are a single pair of rails clamped in the jig- notice that they are "handed" (foot to foot or head to head) and that the extent of the "planing" has been marked with a felt pen ( ...
... back into the positive quadrant on the grid if shifts or rotations have taken them out of it. All group rotations take place around the current position of the notch, which can be positioned beforehand for a convenient result. 5. The functions to rotate all background shapes have been upgraded with new options for the rotation centre: 2_111732_150000000.png And a picture shape can be twisted around its centre in addition to the other options: 2_111734_130000000.png 6. There is a new function in the background shapes to set all picture shapes transparent: 2_120215_240000000.png Previously it was necessary to select each picture shape in turn to make it transparent. This new function is especially useful with tiled maps, where you may have several dozen picture shapes, one for each tile. If such maps are rotated to angles other than 90 degrees or 180 degrees, rotation will cause each one to gain overlapping white corners. Making them all transparent allows the rotated map to be viewed properly: 2_120259_500000000.png 2_120300_120000000.png When working over transparent background maps, it is often convenient to change to the "snow white" ...
... jaw will blend together in the final render. The central rib on the REA drawing is more difficult to replicate simply than the ribs on the outer jaw. I think I have got somewhere near without getting too involved in 3D blends which would require dozens of additional facets. An important consideration for models is to keep it below the wheel flanges. I'm still undecided about how to blend the side of the jaw into the chair base and rail seat. I have removed the silly angled socket in the rail seat which I had previously. On the prototype it is a spherical fillet radius, but that would involve a silly amount of code. On the outer jaw I used a few simple facets instead, although I'm not convinced it looks right. It is easier to see without the rail in place: 2_241247_000000000.png This view also shows the tapered ends of the key, to ease rail threading and reduce stress on the chair. Time for a boiled egg. Martin. posted: 24 Nov 2018 19:17 from: Andrew Barrowman Hi Martin, I'm ...
... 100%. Some is no doubt down to slight discrepancies in the overlaying but I don't think it all is. I find that one pair of overlays is accurately aligned but the next row isn't. My questions therefore are: Is the printer not accurate enough? Is the mix of paper at fault? Am I hoping too much to achieve totally accuracy in alignment over the 7ft square area? I'm not complaining but would appreciate some guidance as to what to expect before I try printing yet another 65 pages, this time using previously unused sheets all from the same packet. Many thanks. Ray posted: 1 Oct 2012 21:27 from: Martin Wynne Ray Hughes wrote: I have an HP Photosmart printer and believe that I have calibrated it as best I can. Hi Ray, Printer calibration applies only to directly printed pages, it has no effect on PDF files. Do you get the same mismatch if you print directly rather than via PDF? Is this an inkjet printer or a laser? Laser printers heat the paper causing differential shrinkage which ...
... I'm clearly not the only one confused by Andrew Jukes' and his team's sensitive egos! Why can't he just say what he means? I'm afraid Exactoscale has never been the same since the sad death of Bernard Weller. posted: 20 Jul 2018 09:40 from: Hayfield Martin Not wanting to upset anyone but just for clarity. Initially the track parts will be available from either of the two societies Later there will be one supplier selling the track parts via mail order, plus another supplier(s) selling other parts previously supplied by Exactoscale. Anyway which ever way it goes its good news if supplies are to be maintained posted: 5 Aug 2018 12:19 from: DerekStuart Sorry to resurrect this topic, but I notice the C&L home page has now disappeared and just the menus exist. I know the bloke is on holiday but is he coming back after? It's not normal to just blank a website like this. I can understand why Exactoscale would not wish CL to be the only outlet for their products, but taking ...
... these sleepers look 9" wide to me http://www.rhdr.org.uk/locomotives-hercules.html And some woooden sleepering that is fitted with Pandrol clips?- but this appears to be on some pointwork http://www.rhdr.org.uk/locomotives-winston-churchill.html All very odd to a newbie posted: 28 Dec 2014 13:42 from: Matt M. Hi TPP, With the Bug shot best guess is that there is some issue with the rail. It seen better days and appears to have a jagged edge and has been previously notched on the flange three times that is visible. I can't tell from this photo if the plate is continuous across the sleeper or in three sections. Given that it is capping the end of the sleeper I would guess continuous. If so it is probably there to protect the sleeper from the poor quality flange. If in three sections, which I doubt, it may be there to lift the spikes past the cutting edge of the flange. It would be interesting to see if that arrangement turns up anywhere else. ...
... the meantime you MUST do this. Before quitting Templot, click this button: 2_131127_360000000.png WRITE DOWN the dimensions shown for X1,Y1, X2,Y2. They won't be saved anywhere at all once you quit Templot. If you used the mimic aid, also WRITE DOWN this Y-scaling figure: 2_141718_280000000.png Again, it is not saved anywhere. When you start the next program session, click the set... button again to create the previous boundary rectangle. Enter the X1 and X2 dimensions which you wrote down previously. For the Y1 and Y2 dimensions, if you used the mimic aid divide the Y dimensions which you wrote down by the Y-scaling percentage. i.e. in the above case divide them by 4.4308. So if you wrote down 560 mm, dividing by 4.4308 gives you 126.39mm. Enter that to recreate your original starting rectangle. Don't divide the X dimensions. I will get all this fixed somehow and iron out some other rough edges. But I doubt I can do it before you want to get your panel ...
... topic: 739 Admin: access problems posted: 22 Feb 2009 15:35 from: Martin Wynne The access problems to Templot Club via some ISPs mean that this site has been inaccessible to many members for over 24 hours now. Sorry about that -- it's affecting me too. I'm going to wait another 24 hours, and then have a rethink -- it looks like the move to Data 1 hosting has been a disaster. More downtime in the last 6 weeks than in several years previously. We can't just switch back until I have solved the database backup problems which prompted the move in the first place. Apologies again, Martin. posted: 23 Feb 2009 08:41 from: Martin Wynne Update -- Monday morning. The cause of the DNS failure still hasn't been found, but as a temporary measure to circumvent the problem, Jim has given us a new IP address. If you were previously having trouble accessing Templot Club, you should now be able to gain access using this address: http://69.36.13.142/ ...
16. A user gives up
... when you spend all your time producing it, tell me about it! If I can say where I found the difficulty with getting started back a while ago (three years I see!) it was understanding what Templot was trying to do. I was expecting to see a column of track parts, a right hand point (I use this term deliberately), a double slip or two, maybe a tunnel. I was expecting to pick up a length of track and lay it on a baseboard plan that I had previously defined. If I wanted a wider radius I would simply drag one end with the mouse. (Where is <File><Edit>? Where can I save a file?). Maybe having the computer game Transport Tycoon had set my expectations! What I was confronted with was a vast array of features, many of which I could not understand from the dropdown description (I do now, having used the system to advantage, and obvious when you know). In short, it was daunting and, ...
... dips. 3/ Over the whole complex, many check rails were totally inadequate in length, with some not fitted or badly positioned, and/or with far too wide a clearance gap between themselves and the rail they were supposed to protect. Fortunately studying the diagrams and notes in Templot showing straight switches, curved and semi-curved enabled me to take the following remedial actions over this last week. On the two worst curved points (inner radius less than 5ft) I traced out "natural curves" rather than the previously existing "forced curves", just to see how nicely a curve could go without having to do a complete messy rebuild. I then removed all of the inside chairs between the start of the check rails to halfway down the slide chairs, (fiddly doing this in situ), and also some of the chairs on the frogs and those holding the moving blades that corresponded to the curved inner rails. I released the inner rails at the point blade ends, strung in all the new fixed chairs, wedged the inner ...
... Tortoise. I changed the operating wire to a thinner one as the pivoted V moves much more easily than a rail that is being bent. On a personal note I am very interested in your remarks about striving and will make sure that his widow is made aware that people have been inspired by it. Chris'r last layout 'Striven'is now back on the road under new ownership and will be at the Wakefield show this year with some of Chris's old operating team helping to run it. Jamie Guest Thanks for your comments- as I previously mentioned I am re-appraising what I might be able to set up at home so that I would not be restricted to exhibition running which would have been dictated by a layout based rigorously on the OS map. Since I drafted the curved layout idea we have had an old wood/plastic conservatory replaced with a proper room that opens off the back of the living room and connects to the dinning room, so I have more flexibility over "available" space. I agree with your comment about curved layouts being more ...
... information alongside tutorial lists and "a little gentle geometry" type of sources, altogether they do present a daunting scattering of information with no clear index Your amount of work answering queries, creating new video's etc. indicates there is something significantly amiss with the facility offered as being an 'instructions for use'. It may be appropriate for this question of a structure for the correlation of the kaleidoscope of help screens and instruction material be posted for Templotter's comments? Ideas on ways to organise an easy and progressive way into Templot may encourage previously unthought of suggestions and might just avoid in the future the kind of exchange you apparently had recently with a disgruntled customer. Kind Regards, Donald posted: 22 Aug 2010 13:59 from: Bill_Lobb I am possibly not the best person to comment on this, as by and large I have not found Templot confusing. With the help of the notes, videos and this forum I have managed to find out everything that I have needed to know without too much trouble. Having said that there are vast swathes of Templot's ...
... beginners. I think you are doing a splendid job single handedly. Templot really is amazing now. A real tribute to you. A series of relevant threads and videos that the beginner can be directed to is probably the best approach as I know you already do. Regards Tony. posted: 18 Jan 2018 13:35 from: Phil O I agree with Tony, I came to Templot with the desire to get nicely flowing trackwork, I had some background of track formations having been involved in permanent way for some years previously on the ESR, and the need to understand the fundamentals I joined the Permanent Way Instution and got a copy of the bulkhead supplement. The GWRSG book on Great Western practice has also proved invaluable. I would suggest that any newcomers to Templot go away and do some homework, if they are that interested in the subject, it's well worth the time spent. Let's face it Templot is a massive step up from off the shelf templates that was all that was available, unless you were prepared to draw up your own ...
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