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... case SLIC3R. This takes the STL file of the model and slices into layers which are exported as a G-code file to drive the 3D printer. Yes, the printer prints a single horizontal layer (slice) at one Z axis height before moving on to the next layer. The layers are usually all the same thickness, but they do not have to be. It is possible to generate custom G-code that does it differently, but I suspect that would be a major undertaking. The big issue with additive printing is ensuring that a layer fuses properly with the previous layer. That's difficult enough in a single plane. Doing it in 3D motion is probably not impossible, but I suspect it would take a lot of experimentation to get satisfactory results. I probably only answered half your questions, so keep asking! Best, Andy Attachment: attach_2202_2734_Chair1.dxf 431 posted: 5 Jan 2016 07:34 from: Martin Wynne Andrew Barrowman wrote: I probably only answered half your questions, so keep asking! Hi Andy, Thanks for the ...
... to be up graded. My two old ones will be going back for that upgrade just soon as I can summon up the energy to unplug them and put them in the post. The question I have is has anyone got any good ideas on logging wiring and how to keep a track of it all? At present I'm labelling each end of the servo wires going back to the boards with the turnout number and the track feeds are colour coded red and black. The crossing feeds to the micro switches are white. In addition I've printed out Templot plans of each baseboard at 20% of full size on A3 paper and have plotted the exact positions of all feeds along with turnout numbering, but still feel that I'm not doing enough to make fault finding later, as easy as I can? Here's a photo of the underside 2787_191809_330000000.jpg Kind regards Andrew posted: 20 Oct 2017 06:27 from: Andrew Barrowman Hi Andrew, It all looks very nice! Regarding the wiring identification you might try attaching labels from a P-touch or similar. ...
... 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 -- images saved in the BGS folder in SK8 format background picture shapes -- images can be wrapped along the control template additional top tool buttons: "beginner buttons" for the most common mouse actions F9 mouse action adjusts V-crossing angle only, F10 adjusts K-crossing angle only There is a new adjustable option and CTRL+ F12 mouse action for the turnout-road exit, and the turnout road options have been moved from the do menu to the geometry menu support for gaunt turnouts and gauntletted track a dummy vehicle can be placed on the control template and adjusted to check and measure running clearances notch on intersection functions trackbed edges are now ...
... it's useful at times to see how things will fit. Perhaps you might create a gallery where if anyone creates a new image, it could be uploaded for sharing. I created this topic as somewhere to post images for sharing, either via the existing Image Gallery or as attachments for .sk9 files. If there is sufficient response I can later rearrange them into a convenient web page or dedicated gallery. regards, Martin. posted: 2 Sep 2010 22:55 from: TonyHagon Ah Martin... Sketchboard: a superb addition to an already great program! Looking forward to the PUG. You have probably realised that there is a whole new opportunity to create signal box diagrams, and to create a library of e.g. typefaces that the individual companies applied to the diagrams. The scaling facilities in Templot make it a doddle to size the diagram to fit the control panel. Best regards Tony Hagon (using Templot 12 miles from John O'Groats) posted: 7 Sep 2010 07:29 from: istvan.david Martin! When can we excpect the next PUG ...
... the price rises on copperclad and the availability issues, ply might end up the dominant proces posted: 30 May 2015 07:58 from: Hayfield You have made some comparisons which I believe are incorrect and misleading I will use your costings and estimates on rail and timber strips and the cost of chairs, but my own calculations on chairs required. Please note a steep rise in the cost of copperclad strip is due very shortly I have based it on an A5 turnout and initially not used either the common crossing chairs or the additional switch chairs A fully built copperclad turnout (no chairs) will cost £4.04, now if you wish to add chairs to a copperclad turnout excluding the cost of raising the rail off the timbers (as you may use scrap brass from a fret)will add another £5.38 (94 std chairs and 16 slide chairs)Making a total of £9.42 Your costs on both the common crossing chairs and plastic sleepers are also wrong, there are 5 sets of common crossing chairs in a packet and there is enough material ...
... way through such a major change and then being interrupted by several days of emails and user support. It's happened before, such that when I get back to the code I'm at a loss to pick up where I left off and have to start again at the beginning. So before doing that, I want to clear the desk of some other ongoing tasks. The sketchboard is essentially a self-contained mini-program, so any problems there won't impact on the core working of Templot. It is also a very worthwhile addition to Templot. You can't create anything on the sketchboard which you couldn't do by other means, but doing it directly in Templot makes it much easier to change the underlying track plan design as you add the scenic details. Many users enjoy creating "what if" plans, and my feeling is that the sketchboard feature will prove very popular -- with or without irregular diamonds. I've also committed to doing something soon about saving user preferences. Not because I want to do it or think it's really necessary, but simply ...
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... is my intention. When there is enough in the index to make it worth visiting, I shall re-compile and upload a new version daily. For those reading this and wondering, the index is at: http://www.templot.com/forum_index/ (It is currently on my UK hosting, but I shall probably move it to Ohio when fully operational.) There is one set of pages which definitely needs a much more prominent link, that is: http://www.templot.com/martweb/pug_info.htm and an additional page with the 091 changes info. regards, Martin. posted: 25 Feb 2010 07:52 from: BruceNordstrand Martin I have thought this for a while now, but why don't you install one of the free Wiki products floating around. With one people could add their own info and take a hell of a load off yourself. There is tons of software products out there that use them so I can only see it being beneficial in the long run. Maybe even Brian would use it Cheers Bruce posted: 25 ...
... Wynne Hi Gordon, if you can wait a day or two, this will be in 226d: 2_070812_100000000.png 4 levels of sub-menu is daft, but is the easiest to implement. cheers, Martin. posted: 7 Jun 2020 13:50 from: Gordon S As I said no rush at all, but thanks.... posted: 8 Jun 2020 14:32 from: Gordon S Well I must be doing something wrong, but can't see it. I've made several amendments to the plan with the addition of three crossovers to enable similar access routes from each side of ET station. I've managed to follow everything you have told me re printing and generated this pdf file (below). All seems fine until I come to print it. Looking at the print size, that is correct at 900mm width (35") yet it only shows 1 page and printing the diagram is reducing it to one page. 479_080928_050000001.png Clicking on set up shows the print size at 100% 479_080928_050000000.png....and yet it still only prints ...
... template. I'll update the web page the next time I create one. regards Stewart posted: 7 Apr 2008 23:34 from: Martin Wynne Stewart McSporran wrote: I can see how the timber ends in line helps with the sleepers along the main road but I'm afraid that I don't see how it helps for the timbers in the turnout road. Hi Stewart, It doesn't. That's why I suggested a method for a guide line. Interlaced timbering is very much a minority requirement, but I will try to add some additional options in the next pug to make it faster to do. If you don't want a single curvable template, you might find it faster to overlay two lots of plain track as partial templates. You would still need to shove the sleepers along, but they would all be the required length, and only a few would require any twisting, and probably none would need throwing. tools> make split> make plain track turnout road> on internal geometrical radius If it's greyed out, extend some approach track (F3) ...
... maximum line speed. The Holyhead-Euston express, long-term resident on road 16, regularly negotiates the trailing and facing A6 part of the tandem turnout plus return curve without difficulties. As long as we keep the double junction in the fiddle yard rather than as part of the scenic section then we don't need to worry about appearances. We also need to bear in mind possible constraints with exhibition managers and keep overall dimensions as reasonable as possible. This means that I would like to be as tight as possible with the additional depth allocated to the new fiddle yard and as generous as possible with any new scenic sections. Another constraint to think about:- One of the design weaknesses of the current layout are the two short boards which the tandem turnouts sit on. They made a lot of sense bearing in mind the space limitations of the room that Mostyn was originally built in but they are the only boards which do not have legs. We would like to remedy this by adding, say, another equal section to make them 1200 x 900 ...
... pic I took part way through building a turnout to test the 3mm Society's then new plastic chairs: 528_261930_140000000.jpg It should be fairly easy to see which chairs have been chopped where; you can even see some of the bits chopped off Sorry about the B&W; it was intended for a monochrome page of the Society magazine. The sleepers are Plastruct strip. Nigel posted: 27 May 2015 07:48 from: Hayfield Nigel The good thing about the Exactoscale range in 4 mm scale is that they have a range of additional chairs, admittedly for LMS/BR but most can be used with other regions. Bridge and small chairs for when rails converge, check chairs, common and obtuse crossing chairs, slip and additional switch chairs all make up a range which saves chopping chairs In 7 mm scale sadly from C&L and Exactoscale there are only the standard, slide and bridge chairs available, another range is slowly being created in 3D printing via Shapeways, I have been of a mind to buy some but always have held back, mainly ...
... normal -- the turnout road terminates at the prototype rail joint in the vee splice rail (CTRL-6 peg position, TVJP). 2. crossover -- the turnout road terminates at the mid-point of a crossover (CTRL-5 peg position, TXP). This may be longer or shorter than normal, according to the current TS track centres setting. 3. long -- the turnout road terminates opposite the end of the main road exit track (TOLP peg position). But always with the additional proviso that the turnout road cannot be longer than the main road in any event (template overall length). This can occasionally cause difficulty, for example in a situation such as this: 2_271436_020000001.png A wide crossover has been inserted in tracks at 10ft way. But the turnout on the left needs to be shortened to allow space for the lower right turnout to be inserted without a conflicting overlap. The result is an unavoidable gap in the crossover road. Until now the only solutions have been to accept the overlap; or ...
... : kenbec I'm minded to stop using the term "irregular" diamond-crossing because it has the potential to be confused with an error condition. Instead I'm thinking of calling them "curviform" diamond-crossings. We can't simply call them "curved" because of course a regular diamond-crossing can be curved. Martin, In no way should the word "irregular" bring to mind that an error condition exists. In its simplest sense it means not regular which I understand to be the correct meaning here. In addition, to anyone who has had the anything to do with TEMPLOT and has read the references in Templot Club and elsewhere, the term has a distinct meaning. So why change it when (a) the meaning is correct and (b )everyone knows what you mean when you refer to an "irregular" diamond-crossing. Regards, ken posted: 19 May 2010 08:50 from: Martin Wynne Kenneth Beckett wrote: to anyone who has had the anything to do with TEMPLOT and has read the references in ...
... the gauntletted track arrangement? I have not seen that before and was interested on what did what... Hi John, This historic viaduct is on the former GNR(I) north-south main-line in Ireland, linking Dublin and Belfast. When the viaduct was rebuilt in the 1930s the new narrower steelwork did not leave space for two tracks on the bridge. The up and down lines were gauntletted to avoid the need for points at each end for a conventional single track line. Which would have required the additional cost of building and staffing a signal cabin (not "box" in Ireland) at the north end of the bridge. Drogheda station is at the south end. Building the new steelwork inside the old ironwork allowed the line to remain open during the reconstruction. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyne_Viaduct Here are a couple more views showing the gaunt turnouts at each end, looking north. All these photos are from 1986. The track was remodelled in the 1990s as a conventional single line with ...
... topic: 606 Timber Interlacing posted: 31 Oct 2008 14:30 from: David Hi guys Firstly, what great software and how glad I am that I bought it. Upon the construction of my first turnout from templot I discovered a problem in the Interlacing of Timbers that i hadn't planned as below.... interlacing.jpg?t =1225698298 During consctruction I decided to add an additional Turnout Timber and make the rail joint in between these. Couldn't see how else to achieve the rail joint between chairs and was concerned about to greater length of rail unsupported. In the image above obviously still some tiding to be done, but that was the general arrangement. This was the final arrangement below. attachment.php?id=378 I hope some one can help me and hope the images help explain problem. My main concern is placing of rail joints and their fishplates. Regards Dave Attachment: attach_378_606_additional_timber.j pg 653 Last edited on 3 Nov 2008 12:45 by David posted: 31 Oct 2008 16:00 from: Martin Wynne Hi Dave, Welcome ...
... list page Read the notes, then scroll down to "picture shape -- display a scanned track plan as a background guide". It's 39MB so suitable for broadband only, sorry. Other videos showing tracks being adjusted over a background guide are "overlaid track on a rough sketch" (a good beginner's guide to using the basic Templot adjustments), and "overlaid track on a scan" (a longer video showing a classic H0 layout). Edit 2012 for Templot2: Templot now supports PNG and JPG files in addition to BMP files for picture shapes, and it is no longer necessary to save them first in the shapes folder. You can save them anywhere on your computer. The above videos and notes have not yet been updated to reflect these changes. 2. Same as above, but using the PDF image from XTrkCad as the design guide. Display it using the Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader or Nitro Reader, and then do a screen capture as a Windows bitmap. On a PC that simply means pressing the Print Screen key ...
... topic: 93 Entering additional text posted: 19 Jun 2007 15:11 from: George McKenzie Hi, Each of the components in my template has a name label which I can choose to view or not using the pad menu. I would like to enter additional text which is not associated with the name label. The latter would be turned off. Is there any way that I can do this? Many thanks, George McKenzie posted: 20 Jun 2007 10:29 from: Martin Wynne George McKenzie wrote: Each of the components in my template has a name label which I can choose to view or not using the pad menu. I would like to enter additional text which is not associated with the name label. The latter would be turned off. Is there any way that I can do this? Hi George, You didn't say how much text you want to enter or where you want it to appear, so the following is a general reply. Please ask again if you need more specific details. There are 4 main ways ...
... still using, just to make Templot look tidy. I have for a long time thought that the picture shapes needed separating from the other background shapes with their own dialog, so perhaps now would be a good time to do that. regards, Martin. Last edited on 4 Apr 2012 11:55 by Martin Wynne posted: 4 Apr 2012 14:00 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Martin, Many thanks for the detailed explanation. I must apologies if my comments have caused you more work, but thanks for the proposed additional arrow buttons. As I stated in my last message, it is I, that really needs to get to grips with sketchboard and use it's facilities to advantage. I'm not quite sure how you would remove the BGS functions completely, as users will require to add in a background track plan (map, drawing etc), these are clearly very essential to the guidance for their layouts. After all, although sketchboard is an excellent additional tool, Templot is the main tool that users really need to produce accurate templates to ...
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... else the timber "reference end" would get confused! If this suggestion gets onto your to-do list at all, stick it somewhere near the bottom That wouldn't be too difficult to do on the print output, I will look into it at some stage. Since you rarely have platforms on both sides of an individual track, it would solve the previous problem also. But it's a no-no on the workpad, otherwise the timber shoving code is going to be well and truly broken and need a lot of additional work. The numbers are clicked on to select a timber for shoving. regards, Martin. posted: 22 May 2011 22:32 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin But it's a no-no on the workpad, otherwise the timber shoving code is going to be well and truly broken and need a lot of additional work. The numbers are clicked on to select a timber for shoving. I thought that would be the case. You'd never know which end you were working from when lengthening or shortening the timbers, ...
... 2010 19:04 by Richard_Jones posted: 19 Aug 2010 20:00 from: roythebus Thanks, I'm starting to get it to work. Despite Frank Dyer's excellent draughtsmanship, when transferred to Templot it just don't work! He used the old style 3' radius point, which, according to templot are something like A5.5 or less! Seems like I'll have to rething, though the original layout will of course be possible, but won't quite fit Frank's plan. Luckily by turning the layout round in my shed I have an additional 1' length. I think what I'll do is set out the main lines to Frank's plan, then add the pointwork to it. Thanks for all your help so far... posted: 20 Aug 2010 12:04 from: Richard_Jones roythebus wrote: Despite Frank Dyer's excellent draughtsmanship, when transferred to Templot it just don't work! He used the old style 3' radius point, which, according to templot are something like A5.5 or less! Hi Roy, This is nothing to degrade Frank's excellent skills or ...
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