... please. Hopfully I have attached a file with a 1-4, 1-4.5& 1-5 turnouts on (if not I need help to attach the file). Sorry I have not tidied up the sleepers, but been at the Watford Finescale show all day I want to use 7mm sleepers with code 75 bullhead rail and chairs to 00-SF gauge The problems I can see are that the sleeper ends are too short, and that as I have selected 0 gauge the rails are too thick. In addition what would the best track centers be, I have used 50mm which is a tad too narrow. Also how do you save the, non standard gauge All advice and suggestions would be greatly recieved Thanks John Phil Thanks the 9' switch makes it a bit smaller, but the look is good. John Attachment: attach_1360_1818_0-16.5_turnouts.box 231 posted: 19 Feb 2012 23:29 from: philchudley Hi, Will look at the box file later this week, most likely on Wednesday, and post my findings soon after. ...

... sketchboard graphics, sketchboard RTF editor, EMF metafiles, PDF generation, all keyboard shortcuts and accelerator keys. The lot. 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 bars is so small that I can barely read it, whereas within Templot the fonts are all too large and widely spaced, and don't fit on the tabs and buttons. In addition there are several rendering glitches and errors: 2_172303_530000000.png Is this what other users are seeing? Or am I missing something in the settings? Does it look as bad on other flavours of Linux? Does it look as bad on a Mac? I shall have to do something about this, making global changes to the fonts when running under Wine, although I doubt I can do much about the menus and caption bars. But for those who simply won't tolerate Microsoft code on their system, this does appear to be the ...

... using the 3D Solid option for the DXF. The screenshot above shows the result after importing the file into 3rd PlanIt. The coloured rectangle is my attempt to sink the sleepers (ties) in some ballast. I added a few sample structures from the 3rd PlanIt libraries to create better perspective effects. The 3rd PlanIt file for this plan can be downloaded from http://templot.com/3pi/hopton_clee_and_trains.3pi It can be opened and the trains run in the free demo version of 3rd PlanIt. You won't be able to draw additional tracks from scratch in that version or save files, but you can add further trains and buildings from the supplied libraries. Or import your own Templot track plan by exporting it from Templot as a DXF file. If you are experimenting with the above file in the 3rd PlanIt demo, go to: http://templot.com/3pi/dxf_3d_3pi_3d_controls.htm for a handy guide to using the camera controls to "walk-through" the layout, and how to control the trains. For 3rd PlanIt users reading this, this ...

... (0.0264") [Source: C&L] Rail, Code 100 FB 1.00mm (0.0394") [Source: C&L] IMPORTANT NOTE: The above information was gathered via a telephone conversation with Brian Lewis (C &L ), who was anxious to stress that the manufacture of Rail is quite a crude process (basically wire drawn thru' steel rollers) and as such the above (C &L) dimensions should be regarded as nominal values only, since variation may occur between batches. In addition, both C&L and SMP/Marcway have at times sourced rail from each other for onward sale to customers. The dimensions of the rail codes listed in red above were quoted to me by Brian Lewis, however these sizes are not listed for sale on the C&L Finescale website (possibly special order?). The two rail code dimensions where the sizes are preceded by the word *approximately* (i.e. Code 75 N.S. F/B& Code 70 N.S. F/B) are ...

... topic: 781 Turnout radius posted: 6 Apr 2009 19:31 from: jeckardt Okay, I admit it... I'm confused... I thought I finally had my head around how to specify the turnout that I wanted, but obviously not.. I have a curved geometry turnout. "Switch radius in FS inches" is set to 1150". I'd be happy to provide any additional parameters that I used that are necessary to answer this question. The resulting template ends up with: switch radius (rail gauge-face)= 1437.5 trunout radius (rail gauge-face)= 1517.73 [For the record, I have refered to your online docs and do understand what the above two radii correspond to.] What happened to the 1150? Was it ignored? Overridden due to my other parameters specified? What did I do wrong? Thanks, Joe posted: 6 Apr 2009 20:02 from: Martin Wynne jeckardt wrote: I have a curved geometry turnout. "Switch radius in FS inches" is set ...

... to find a template with each custom spacing, copy it to the control and then adopt those settings for each slot in turn, which gets a bit tedious Hi Paul, They never have been saved. You don't necessarily need to adopt them into the list after loading, you can obtain the custom rail lengths and sleeper spacings directly from a background template to the control template: 2_141812_160000000.png Which is actually faster than accessing the list. They can't go in the .box file. Otherwise they would get over-written as you add additional .box files. The list was mainly intended as an aid while the custom settings are being defined. I recently added the custom gauge/scale settings to the program preferences, and these plain track settings (and the custom switches) could go there too. You can create multiple preferences files with a different set of settings if you wish. It's just such a massive programming effort to add them to the preferences, for the sake of completeness but so little real gain, that I don't always have the time to do ...

... topic: 3507 changes in version 223d posted: 24 Sep 2019 15:55 from: Martin Wynne Here is a summary of the changes in Templot update version 223d, released 23rd September 2019. This is mainly a maintenance release to fix the printing bug in version 223c. But there are also some useful new features: 1. output elements The output elements selection dialog has been expanded with additional options, and the output menu has been simplified to make it easier to find the dialog: 2_240842_010000000.png These settings apply to printed templates, exported PDF files, exported image files, trackplan items on the sketchboard -- all output formats except DXF files. All these settings are included if you save your program preferences. 2. preview print pages To make it easier to see the effect of the above settings, any printed page can now be previewed if desired before printing: 2_241028_400000000.png 2_241028_400000001.png 2_241028_410000002.png The preview image can be freely zoomed and dragged to examine it. Or alternatively if dot-for-dot is ticked the view will zoom in to show one ...

... timber. Luckily Templot allows me to adjust this (via real> V-crossing options> customize V-crossing> blunt nose...). It is also the very first dimension which needs to be set in building up a custom timbering, because everything else is dimensioned from the centre of the "A" timber. The blunt-nose to timber dimension references the timbering from the rails. regards, Martin. posted: 13 May 2018 09:51 from: richard_t Interesting indeed. Thanks for all the additional information. I've not seen a drawing for the chair in the first picture. The brackets are similar to those in NERA book, but the base doesn't look to have the extension. It's also hard up against the back of the timber. The solid cast iron chair also doesn't need the 3" rail extension to the crossing as it's not bolted through the timber. As I say, I've yet to see a picture of one of those. I suspect I've got some fiddling to do with my plan now.. ...

... the current Peco web site: Hi Martin, Almost a year ago Peco made a press release, reported in Railway Modeller, about their new production plans for the year. This included O scale curved turnouts. If it follows the example set by their double slip it will be at least another year before we see it! I hope that they hurry up because my new train room is finished (well almost finished) and work is in progress on the fiddle yard, a 7' 6" three track turntable with three additional storage roads leading from one of the movable roads. This is all concealed track using code 148 FB rail. The sceniced part will be in code 124 BH and I will need several curved turnouts. Some will have to be hand laid but I am lazy and if the Peco curved turnouts will work and look good then I will use them. Glen posted: 27 Oct 2009 18:09 from: marsa69 Hi all, the PECO curved turnouts are indeed now fact. I was looking at getting one or two of ...

... topic 2394- message 16119 topic 2410 regards, Martin. posted: 10 Mar 2014 20:09 from: PeterD Thank you Martin, I do not know why the first templates are not in alignment. I did snake one over the other. I have played with this configuration for more than two days and it may have become misaligned while I was fiddling about. Thanks again, I have learnt more. Peter posted: 10 Mar 2014 21:06 from: LSWRArt Hi Martin Is it possible to add a note (additional frame) to the beginning of the video so that when you start it, it says:- this is out of date, so use at your own risk and you might find it easier to follow these links (i.e. the two you quote). Apart from that, is it possible to delete the other out-of-date tandem search results, so that everyone only finds the new tutorials? Not sure what else to suggest, except that if this is the subject which leads to most queries, ...