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... topic: 1988 Hiding the control template when storing posted: 18 Jun 2012 02:44 from: Martin Wynne I've felt for some time that it's confusing for beginners that the control template is hidden on doing a store& background (INSERT key). The effect is that the template has simply changed colour, rather than been stored. We can't not hide the control template on store, otherwise it's not apparent to beginners that anything has happened at all. I've now made a change which I've been intending to try for some time. The control template will remain hidden only briefly, and will then reappear over the background template. You can of course hide it again if you wish (HOME key). For more experienced users there is a new option not to have the control template hidden. It's on the options menu on the storage box. Untick this menu option: 2_172050_560000000.png This setting is included in the program preferences. Note that even with this option unticked, on a large track plan the control template will disappear momentarily while Templot re ...
... topic: 1511 Templot2 change log posted: 23 May 2011 15:53 from: Martin Wynne Templot2 Summary of the main changes in Templot since version 091c of February 2008 support for irregular diamond-crossings and curviform ladders platforms can be added alongside track templates check rails can now be individually set and adjusted by mouse action sketchboard layout drawing function rail foot edge lines can be shown on FB templates (flat-bottom rails) print menu renamed output menu output in diagram mode -- solid colour infill between stock rail edges Important: not available for partial templates if stock rails omitted -- temporarily lay plain track templates across complex formations to create diagram-mode output. output to PDF files, including large single pages for roll-paper poster printing export to bitmap image files in PNG, GIF, JPG, BMP formats export to vector image metafiles in EMF, WMF formats easy capture of screenshots to PNG files print now! function to bypass printer setup and calibration background picture shapes -- support for PNG, JPG, GIF image formats background picture shapes ...
... to do more work, selecting a section of track to the control (click M in drop down left menu) it changes colour to brown and goes to the control but places an identical blue ghost image below the controlled image which I then have to delete. Every time I select track to the control another blue ghost appears below, sometimes having to delete many background ghost images prior to being left with the one I'm working on. Probably not explained that very well but an example would be- if I create a new template of any piece of track it appears on the trackpad in brown and is 'in the control', I click 'shift' and move it but there is always another 'blue ghost' left behind identical to the template I've just created. It's annoying the hell out of me as I seem to spend wasted hours just deleting blue ghosts- can I prevent it happening please. Mike Last edited on 14 Sep 2014 18:01 by CoBo posted: 14 Sep 2014 20:31 from: Martin Wynne Hi Mike, I think ...
... days or weeks and then can always pick up where I finished in the start up programme. Returning to the last images on screen is not an issue, but when I get there I may not be able to recall which version I was working on. I've searched high and low, but can't find a place where the file name appears on screen or within the menu items. I'm guessing it is there somewhere but blowed if I can find it. This then continues into printed items where I may end up with several templates taped together of various versions and it would be really useful if the file name appeared somewhere on the printed sheets. Apologies again, if it is there and I'm having a senior moment.... No doubt that better housekeeping on my part may help, but I would certainly find it useful to locate file names on both screen shots and printed templates. posted: 12 Dec 2015 16:32 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: I've searched high and low, but can't find a place where the file ...
5. Quick-mode
... preferences, TDV will start in classic Templot mode each time. Revert to trying out the new Quick-mode feature when you have found your way around: 2_180351_050000001.png You can always quickly see which mode you are in -- classic Templot displays an orange T: 2_180351_040000000.png You can quickly swap modes using the shortcut keys -- PAGE UP, PAGE DOWN. Quick-mode is intended mainly for beginners. It makes it quick and easy to build up a simple track plan, but is not recommended when working with multiple partial templates. But it's very handy when timber shoving to swap quickly between several templates. regards, Martin. posted: 19 May 2011 19:52 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin I thought I'd have a go at Quick Mode- you're right in that I wanted to immediately change to Classic mode! Anyway, I've found a problem in the way background templates are selected, and lost some templates in the process. I've got my new user head on, and am now confused as to where they went! (My old ...
... to rebuild my current layout more prototypically using Templot, but personally I find it extremely complicated to use. I've looked at the videos and it all seems too easy, but reality is different to what is shown on some of the videos. for instance, I make a simple curved crossover on double track. I then try to modify one of the turnouts to get an easier radius, but then another turnout appears at random on the overall plan. I then find I can't print the original crossover, despite going into the template store; there's no print box shown. Has anyone yet written an idiots guide to Templot yet, or is there anyone out there who fancies doing a rather large layout plan? I have a very professionally produced plan by the late Frank Dyer I'm trying to build. posted: 12 Aug 2010 21:57 from: Martin Wynne roythebus wrote: for instance, I make a simple curved crossover on double track. I then try to modify one of the turnouts to get an easier radius, but then another turnout appears ...
... topic: 2039 Unwanted Template Copies posted: 3 Aug 2012 19:39 from: Jim Guthrie Martin, I've just started using 2.05D since downloading it and I keep getting unwanted copies of templates after I store them- i.e. after working with a template and storing to background with Ctrl-V, the template stores as normal, then after about a second, a copy appears as an active template. This happens with every template I work with. Is this a bug or a feature? Jim. posted: 3 Aug 2012 19:55 from: Martin Wynne Hi Jim, This is an experimental change in 205d. see: topic 1988 Previously, after storing a copy of the control template, the control template was automatically hidden and it was necessary to show it again to continue working with it (HOME key). Since that was nearly always wanted, Templot 205d hides it only long enough to see the stored copy, and then shows it again. If you really did want it to remain hidden, you can press the HOME ...
... some specific track design methods/worked examples as many may come to Templot( as Peco users wanting better prototype fidelity) and just want to design a single plan and then move off and build it only returning to Templot when the next new layout is due. The basic methods of making: Double track oval with passing loop and siding( like a Triang train set with a couple of track extension packs) Terminus station design- Minories type with double track/engine release/parels bay. Flowing single track terminus- aligning templates over a pre-drawn Template to ensure it flows nicely. Important, I think, to stress that Templot is intended to be( or is capable of being) used in other ways than just snapping single track items together or designing single templates. Rob posted: 28 Jan 2018 22:06 from: Martin Wynne Phil O wrote: I think it might help, if on the first link, you put a picture of the first screen that you see on opening Templot and a note on how to change the ...
... gauge/scale dialogue box open when Templot starts so the choices are right in front of you. Would that be easier to implement? Bruce Wilson Barrie, Ontario posted: 5 Mar 2009 16:26 from: Nigel Brown Martin I've only just encountered this discussion so this may be a naive suggestion. In a certain sense the last settings are saved and are restorable because there is the option of loading the last project being worked on. Is there a way of simply loading the settings from the last project without loading any templates? If so would adding a "restore last settings" option at that point do the trick? cheers Nigel posted: 5 Mar 2009 18:05 from: Martin Wynne Nigel Brown wrote: Is there a way of simply loading the settings from the last project without loading any templates? Hi Nigel, Answer "yes" to restore the previous templates, and then press CTRL+ DELETE (that's main> clear all templates menu item.) Press ENTER on the confirm dialog. This is also the way to save ...
... pleading for them for years. I didn't think I could make anyone wait any longer, even if the development version was in a half-finished mess. The strange thing is, that after all the clamour for them, they now hardly get a mention on here. So either the demand wasn't really there, or I got them just right first time -- which is difficult to believe. The same goes for several of the other new features -- platforms, gaunt turnouts, wrapping a picture shape along the control template, foot lines on FB templates, the dummy vehicle tool. Welcomed at the time, but since then -- silence. I can't believe they are all working so well first time that no one has anything to say about them. So I will confess that I'm a bit disappointed and wondering if I have taken a wrong turning. The sketchboard function took months of work and a considerable expense for the licence for the graphics engine. But only a few sketchboard screenshots have been posted here or on any other forums. ...
... topic: 2734 3D Printed Track and Turnouts posted: 9 Aug 2015 05:18 from: Andrew Barrowman Greetings fellow Templotters, As some of you already know, I've been messing about trying to print turnout bases on a 3D printer. It's fairly easy to create a 3D model of the timbers in CAD from any Templot template. It's also fairly simple to drag models of the chairs into the correct positions and orientation and combine them to produce an STL file to drive a printer. What is not so easy is producing 3D models for chairs that a) actually work, and b) don't look too horrible! I think I have reached a point where I'm limited by the printing technology itself. The results are actually a lot better than I thought they might be when I started out. Anyway, I've been making some wild guesses about chair dimensions, and I have not had a lot of luck finding anything on the Web. Any information would be greatly appreciated. (Here's a bit of track I've been using to test the latest chair ...
... only shows the sleepers. I've tried most obvious things but cannot find the error. Any ideas? 479_170322_540000000.jpg posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:15 from: Jim Guthrie Gordon, I could be facetious and say "scrap thieves". But I note that there is also a rail missing on the adjacent page. Jim. posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:30 from: Martin Wynne Hi Gordon, That's very odd. There are no settings which can apply to an individual printed page. All settings are based on individual templates, or apply to all the pages. However, as Jim says it seems to be more than one page, and on the second page there is just a tiny fragment of rail showing at the top left. The settings to remove rails from a template are at do> omit rails and joint marks menu item. Anything there for these templates? Are the rails showing on the screen? regards, Martin. posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:33 from: Gordon S OK, a few things to help. ...
... topic: 1286 New click-mode options posted: 16 Nov 2010 04:46 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, Yesterday I went for a long walk along the riverside in the autumn sunshine. I returned resolved to make a change in Templot which I have been thinking about for a long time. In fact I very nearly made the changes in 091c, but had second thoughts. There are lots of pros and cons. In the next Pug there will be no less than FOUR options for transfer to the control template when clicking on a background template: 2_152153_410000000.png The new make the control menu option will 1. do store& background on the existing control template, then 2. delete the clicked template to the control template. This will give those fearful of the word "delete" something more positive-sounding to click on. More importantly it allows a new mode of working in Templot, which will be the default: 2_152153_410000001.png In the new make on click mode, left clicking on a background template will immediately do make the control ...
... topic: 3080 First Outing on the Permanent Way posted: 15 Sep 2017 06:53 from: Tony McGartland Its only right that I don't jump in and take on things that by-pass the basics. Watched the first video and took all in before deciding to go ahead and follow the routines in the video. Silly question but how do I draw a straight piece of track or is the default 'straight' always a turnout? posted: 15 Sep 2017 10:47 from: John Palmer To convert a template with a turnout to plain track: (Menu) template -> convert to plain track. To convert a curved template to a straight: (Menu) geometry -> straight. posted: 15 Sep 2017 10:58 from: Jim Guthrie Tony, The quickest way is to use the Quick dialog box which you can call up with Ctrl-Q. In that dialog box you can select a turnout with a choice of switches and crossings and radii. But you can also select plain track, either straight or with ...
... topic: 3784 meaning of 'to the control' posted: 29 Sep 2020 06:11 from: Jerry Goodwin I'm a bit baffled by all the 'something to the control' commands. I've read through the tutorials that talk about wiping, deleting, going from background to the control, etc, and I'm just befuddled. I understand that there is one control template that is the target of most commands. I sort of understand this as the 'foreground' template, while the others are 'background'. It's the template being controlled, I guess? Anyway, one selected template makes sense, but the sense of 'control' seems backwards. It's not controlling anything, it's the one being controlled and manipulated. But the way the 'xxx to the control' functions work isn't penetrating my brain. I think I'm hung up on the word 'to', trying to figure whether it means 'up to the control' (so "delete to the control" would delete everything up to the control, but not the control, except then what's the order of ...
... topic: 2208 Template name labels posted: 1 May 2013 12:03 from: Martin Wynne The code for the template name labels has remained unchanged for years. By now there must be thousands of templates all called "no-name" -- which on the face of it doesn't make a lot of sense. I've felt for a long time that this area needed changing, without knowing quite what to do about it. Following this recent discussion by Richard and Arthur: topic 370- message 14648 I have been giving it some more thought. I've made some changes for the next program update, although I'm still not entirely sure it is an improvement. Maybe it is just change for change's sake. At present the template number simply represents its position in the storage box list, so the number changes as templates are inserted, deleted, etc., or the list is re-ordered on the storage box. This can be confusing when printing templates at different times because the template numbers (the prefix on the timber numbers) may ...
... this is a very welcome recent addition to the TDV. All the best, Brian Nicholls. 1853_271411_460000000.png posted: 27 Mar 2012 20:05 from: Martin Wynne Brian Nicholls wrote: When checking clearances using the Dummy Vehicle option, I'm sorry to say, that I found the dummy vehicle did not follow the curve through a transition. Hi Brian, It's working here through transitions and slews -- naturally I tested that, very thoroughly. But maybe not thoroughly enough -- please could you post your box file for these templates so that I can see what's happening. Thanks. regards, Martin. posted: 27 Mar 2012 20:15 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin I've been able to reproduce this- I think you will see what may be happening. (Actually, forget that! Squinting at Brian's original image I can see that the dummy vehicle is still on the control template, mostly. Perhaps I need new glasses) Cheers Last edited on 27 Mar 2012 20:24 by Paul Boyd posted: 27 Mar 2012 20:27 ...
... topic: 2369 Outside Single Slip posted: 1 Jan 2014 12:55 from: Michael Woolford A while back, I started manually draughting (using templates) the trackwork for my new layout. This involved determining the position of turnouts and once happy, sticking the templates to a large roll of paper and penciling in the plain track. Only partially complete, it is a very time consuming process and mistakes/alterations take a long time to redraw (especially if the paper is damaged when removing a previously stuck sown template). All of my turnout templates were obtained from the EMGS and C&L. The C&L templates include an outside single slip with crossing angles of 1 in 4.5 and 1 in 6.5. If possible I would like to attempt a draft of the trackwork in templot to assess the feasibility of the layout in terms of space and geometry. I have searched the forum for previous requests for help in creating an outside single slip and found a few topics. I did find one almost complete template that someone had created ...
... keep the depth of boards to be less than 4' which should allow rear access. The long curve certainly makes for a far more interesting plan and visually is a big improvement. The thought of an A4 plus 8 Mk1's running out around that long curve is inspiring.. I am learning more about Templot each day, but am struggling to generate a 1:7 double slip despite tacking the tutorial several times. So that I am able to be involved in the generation of this plan, is there a double slip template on file, or could a benevolent soul generate one for me? The straight and curve points are not an issue and having a slip template would enable me to experiment a lot more with the basic track design. I'm still a long way away from a name, but I'm sure as it progresses a suitable name will evolve. Thanks for your help and input so far. posted: 10 Nov 2007 17:47 from: Richard Spratt Gordon S wrote: The lower level is shown here. lowerlevelsem2.jpg Hi Gordon Can ...
... topic: 2034 Custom timbering of turnouts posted: 27 Jul 2012 13:25 from: Alan McMillan Hi all I've just created a new custom plain track setting for Swiss Federal Railways CWR and it's just dandy. However when I insert a turnout in the new plain track or use new template (quick set), it comes up with default (presumably GWR) sleeper spacings although the lengths appear to agree with the settings I've defined. Is there any way to get turnouts to take up the spacing settings I've defined by default rather that have me do an awful lot of timber shoving afterwards? Regards Alan Last edited on 27 Jul 2012 13:25 by Alan McMillan posted: 27 Jul 2012 13:55 from: Martin Wynne Alan McMillan wrote: Is there any way to get turnouts to take up the spacing settings I've defined by default rather that have me do an awful lot of timber shoving afterwards? Hi Alan, Yes, use the modify on rebuild function. 1. Have the required settings in the control template. 2. Put ...
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