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... saving my .bmp image as a .bgs file. So, please, how can I untangle my 32,000 shape logjam and why does my .bmp not save as a .bgs? I am running v.091c on Windows 7. Bob posted: 16 Jul 2011 14:05 from: Martin Wynne Bob Juleff wrote: I seem to have inadvertently reached the limit of 32,000 background shapes whilst trying to load, save and reload a 6mB scanned survey. I now get a little boxed message saying "invalid floating point operation" ... shape rather than vectorizing it to a DXF. There is a video showing how to import a scanned image as a picture shape: http://www.templot.com/martweb/videos/map_picture_shape.exe Note that this will be all-change in the next Pug -- JPG, PNG and GIF images will be supported in addition to BMP. You can try the changes now if you would like to join the TDV development group. regards, Martin. posted: 17 Jul 2011 17:25 from: Bob Juleff Hi Martin, ...
... from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: Nothing at all wrong with the quality. FB Connect seems ideal IMHO But it's smudgy, with colour bleeds around the timber outlines, and the text. Can't you see them? Martin. posted: 1 Apr 2015 21:05 from: madscientist Martin Wynne wrote: madscientist wrote: Nothing at all wrong with the quality. FB Connect seems ideal IMHO But it's smudgy, with colour bleeds around the timber outlines, and the text. Can't you see them? Martin. Sheesh Martin, ... keeps telling me all this, but it just isn't true. Presumably if Apple says it often enough everyone believes them. The HTML5 codecs use jpeg-style compression and it just isn't suitable for recording screen graphics. For still images we have two formats -- JPG for real-world camera photos and scans, and lossless PNG for line graphics. The difference between them is significant and clearly visible. It's blindingly obvious that we need two similar formats for moving images. At present the only lossless video formats I know about ...
... 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 ...
... 16 Jan 2018 23:51 from: Andrew Duncan And here they are. I've also just realised that I've yet to build the catch point to protect the down main from carriages wandering out of their siding between the up and down main lines. A friend pointed out its absence a couple of months ago and sure enough when we checked the photos there it was... 2787_161841_420000000.jpg 2787_161844_160000000.jpg So little more trackwork before spraying and ballasting and I need to install the dummy point rodding as well. Andrew posted: 14 Jul 2018 05:11 from: Andrew Duncan I can barely believe that its been 6 months since I've reported any progress on Pen Mill. I've not been totally idle, nor have I made great leaps forward. The catch point is in on the carriage siding. I've added all the feeds/ droppers in now, so the amount of wires underneath have burgeoned. I've almost got all microswitches switching the correct polarity. I've even got close to getting the diamond crossings being switched by their adjacent turnouts. It remains to be seen whether ...
... out-of-memory condition and make a more graceful recovery. Thanks for reporting it. I also think there may be an issue with the save file options as when you select a different file type in the file type window, it does not automatically change in the file name window (as it does in Windows) and needs to be deleted manually unless you are overwriting everything, eg changing the file type to .JPEG still saves as .PNG. The big question there is why do you want to save from Templot in JPG format? I was sorely tempted not to include the JPG option, but allowed it because you may perhaps have a large scanned image on the background as a picture shape. The JPG format is intended only for photographic real-world images from a lens (camera or scanner). It is the worst possible format for saving screen graphics and makes a pig's ear of it. Your screenshot above would have been much clearer and sharper in PNG format, and would have been a smaller file size at the same time. ...
... topic: 314 Using gimp on turnouts posted: 15 Jan 2008 05:07 from: Adrian Following on from the post on Point rodding pics topic 169 I have been trialing the use of gimp to work out the geometry, so far with mixed sucess but I think I started at the deep end! So just reporting on progress. As a reminder the starting point! Attachment: attach_210_314_3way.jpg 315 posted: 15 Jan 2008 05:13 from: Adrian I then used the shear and perspective tools in gimp as detailed by Martyn. It worked quite easily to get something that looked right. Unfortunately when loaded as a background shape in Templot it was difficult to get anything matching. I then realised that despite being careful on the use of the perspective tool I had mis-judged it slightly so I was getting gauge widening through the turnout. If I set the approach road to the right gauge then it'd be 8% to 10% out at the crossing. So now I use the measure tool in gimp to check the gauge is constant through ...
... 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 -- 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 ...
... switch available. This is a temporary suggestion until gaunt turnouts are available in a later pug. (I will expand on this separately.) I set a 30ft straight switch. Change the V-crossing to "curviform" so that the radius on each side can differ (this is important). 5. 04:00- 04:55 This time run the peg along the main-road crossing rail. Omit the unwanted rails, and shorten template to a more convenient length. 6. 04:55- 05:20 Align it onto the 2nd turnout at the peg. It is likely to be facing the wrong way, so dab the Multiply key to correct that. (This works whenever the peg is already on the notch.) 7. 05:20- 06:25 Zoom in and snake it into position until the f.p. marker (white cross) is exactly aligned over the intersection in the underlying rails. Then put the peg there (Ctrl-4, this is important), and zoom back out ...
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... topic: 2377 Another one lost posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:34 from: Martin Wynne JFS wrote: Focus on the positives! I honestly don't know how to respond to this, posted on RMweb just now: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/55140-west-fraddon-rslrs-workbench-all-new-plan/page-9 #entry1306313 It seems that I am failing somewhere. Perhaps I should just shake my head and move on. Martin....... I don't seem to be getting along very well with these track design programs, not easy to use or understand at all. I tried a free program called AnyRail that allows 50 or so bits of track which was useless but seemed simple if your designing a trainset. Another I tried called Xtrkcad which I didn't have a clue. I have the Hornby HVR programs but they're very primitive and you can only use their components. I found this program called Scarm which seems simple enough a fairly straight forward but ...
... template. 2436_311854_310000001.png This is the other hand from the first template. Now, here is the Save box where I entered the names of the Templates as I went along. 2436_311854_310000002.png I've tried to select the LH template so I can print others, but as you can see from the background, I can't get to it. I'm guessing that I need to find the Box File, but I've run out of ideas. I hope that this helps explain this time around. Cheers Max Last edited on posted: 1 Jan 2014 05:03 by MaxSouthOz posted: 1 Jan 2014 02:00 from: Trevor Walling Hello, You should find what you are looking for in E:\TEMPLOT_DEV\BOX-FILES\ Hope that helps trustytrev 1 Jan 2014 05:03 from: MaxSouthOz Thanks, Trev. Where do I find E:TEMPLOT_DEV\BOX-FILES? Now when I open the Storage Box, that bar has disappeared. Cheers Max posted: 1 Jan 2014 05:29 from: Martin Wynne MaxSouthOz wrote: I kept thinking that ...
... ". This setting normally defaults to "fit to paper" in most reader programs, so it is important to remember to change it. And to ask the copyshop to change it if you are having large-format PDFs printed. regards, Martin. posted: 2 Jan 2012 02:34 from: Donald MacLean Thank you Martin I am impressed! I didn't expect a response before tomorrow- Monday- morning Canadian time. I had been using the menu normal size 100% option but when I go to output as jpg/png/bmp etc., the dpi setting of 4000 does not change and the resulting file makes a 3mm scale, #6 straight left hand point come out at 35 inches long!!! [and height is increased in an equivalent manner!] In other words the 100% option doesn't seem to work. [I am trying to produce a point base cutting template for a medium duty 'cutter/plotter' I have just purchased. If I can get it to work, I'll write it up here ...
... clearance for the flanges. What I couldn't work out was how to move the blade along the template, then later in the day how to download my own old template to Templot. I still haven't managed that despite Martin's explanation! Maybe I'm getting too old to remember all these computer instructions. Thanks to all for the help so far. I have 2 of these slips to build, luckily both from the same template. posted: 26 Jan 2014 09:50 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, If you look at your jpg, it does say printer uncalibrated. If you copy the two related files into the folders where they should go you can then load your jpg as the bgs file. If you want to move the blades along, make sure your peg is on front of switch and try snake through peg on actions mouse actions control/geometry menu option. (Ctrl F6) Stephen roythebus wrote: Hi Borg Rail, thanks for taking the time to help on this one. My printer was calibrated. As this was one of the ...
... selected the precise area, scanned it to my computer, edited it after scanning in a graphics editor, saved it in .PNG format, and subsequently made further edits to the actual code. Here is the result: 89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A 00 00 00 0D 49 48 44 52 00 00 00 C8 00 00 00 51 08 00 00 00 00 B2 5A B6 C9 00 00 00 15 74 45 58 74 43 72 65 61 74 69 6F 6E 20 54 69 6D 65 00 07 DE 02 03 05 30 0E AC FD C2 BB 00 00 00 07 74 49 4D 45 07 DF 02 03 05 33 0F 25 D6 42 9E 00 00 00 09 70 48 59 73 00 00 5C 46 00 00 5C 46 01 14 94 43 41 00 00 2F 6B 49 44 41 54 78 DA 3D BB D9 8F 1C D9 B9 27 16...... and a lot more which I'm omitting simply to save space. Are you saying that I don't own the copyright to the above text? No- ...
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... file, but not for .box files.I'm not holding a gun to Martin's head, it's just that I would find it helpful.I would also find it helpful to annotate a whole Templot file by putting text notes at particular points of interest. Sorry Trevor now look what you've made me do, branch off the subject, I feel such a heel but it is just another point. BTW, looks from your screen dumps that you may be working in 00-SF, good choice. Cheers Godders posted: 15 Feb 2014 19:05 from: Martin Wynne Godfrey Earnshaw wrote: I already have 50 sub folders under templot_dev>box-files>.... I may have in excess of 1000 files over a period of almost 4 years. Hi Godders, Good grief! It's an interesting feature request, and with that many files to sort through I can see why you need it. But it's not simple. The only program which can make any sense of a .box file is Templot -- Windows can't do it by itself. In order ...
... enough, that once I get the track correct, I will spend days tweaking the visual appearance until I'm 100% happy with what I see. As always, I'm really grateful for your help, but I wouldn't expect anyone to do that for me as the last 10% of tweaking could take days on it's own. It's just one of those things that has to be absolutely right. Visual appearance Is so subjective and we all have our own idea of what looks right. Last edited on 15 May 2020 08:05 by Gordon S posted: 15 May 2020 09:08 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: I'm interested how you created a solid line and then compressed the plan. You know me well enough, that once I get the track correct, I will spend days tweaking the visual appearance until I'm 100% happy with what I see. As always, I'm really grateful for your help, but I wouldn't expect anyone to do that for me as the last 10% of tweaking could take days on it's own. ...
... topic: 3534 File viewer function in OT/MEC posted: 22 Oct 2019 05:49 from: Martin Wynne Hi Graeme, I forgot to mention that the file-viewer form includes an HtmlView component. In order to edit the form you will need to install the HtmlViewer package in Lazarus. How to do that here: topic 3283- message 24933 Also of course Jim's .box files will open in Templot2 but not in OT/MEC at present for testing the file viewer. I'm hoping to have a fix for that in the next day or two. cheers, Martin. posted: 22 Oct 2019 09:13 from: Jim Guthrie Graeme, Heres the .ZIP file of my BOX file folder- 470 files with two sub folders. Martin has locked the other thread so I'm posting it here. It just gets inside the file size restriction. Jim. Attachment: attach_2929_3534_BOX-FILES.zip 15 Last edited on 22 Oct 2019 09:14 by Jim Guthrie posted: 26 Oct 2019 07:10 from: Graeme Thanks, Jim, I ...
... platform faces (2 -7 North and South) and the accompanying three middle roads that figured in the LB&SCR 1906-7 rebuilding of their side of Victoria Station, London and, like 'Minories', would be fascinating to see operated with a high-intensity service as an exhibition tour-de-force. Regards, Rodney Hills posted: 17 Sep 2008 23:18 from: John Lewis It could have been even more interesting prior to May 1892. Was this mixed gauge? posted: 18 Sep 2008 05:03 from: Stumpytrain richard_t wrote: Ah so no Platform 13 and 13A in those days.... MKC is shortly getting a 2A. Hi Richard, Assuming you're talking about Bristol then there never has been a platform 13A! Alex posted: 18 Sep 2008 06:11 from: Stumpytrain Jim Guthrie wrote: It's only when you note the double use of the two platform faces that you realise the tremendous operating potential of the layout- it could take over from CJF's "Minories" [Edit] Meant ...
... use images from Google Earth as a background? If so how do I do it? Hi Andy, Yes. This Templot screenshot of Corfe Castle is from Paul Boyd: 105_151522_380000000.png Background images are inserted in picture shapes. You would need to capture the image as a screenshot first. See this video: http://www.templot.com/martweb/videos/map_picture_shape.exe More info: http://www.templot.com/martweb/gs_bgshape.htm Note that in TDV it is no longer necessary to use BMP format only, you can also use JPG, PNG and GIF image files. Also it is no longer necessary to save the file in the SHAPE-FILES folder. Also, you can now bend such images to fit your railway room, see: message 9830 regards, Martin. posted: 7 Jan 2012 21:21 from: andygall Hi Martin, thanks for the fast reply, i'm not that upto speed on computers but i've managed to save the image as a jpg file, how do i open that into templot so i can save it as a ...
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... only get the bits I want! As for Alan's proviso (above)- I would not claim to have that knowledge and would still say that it is possible to use TEMPLOT without it- like most software (including that designed by the so-called professional (or is it just commercial?) outfit run by Mr Gates) you do need to be using it to become fluent- like a foreign language. Take heart Martin and carry on the good work! best wishes Richard posted: 16 Jul 2013 11:05 from: Paul Boyd I think Matt has this right- many people (and I don't include John Lewis in this, as he's given it a good go) think Templot is just a layout design package. That's why I'm not sure it should necessarily be geared towards trying to make that sort of thing easier, but more towards making people think that by using Templot they're shifting up a gear towards prototypicality (if that's a word- the spell-check doesn't think so!) Cheers posted: 16 Jul 2013 20 ...
... to switch clearance with the switch is open, this would be exacerbated in oo-sf, is this the case, would it be better to stick with fixed heel? any hints on how to make the Joggle, I havent worked out reliable way to do this( 0.2mm joggle) thanks dave I build loose heel switches as loose heel switches. I use plastic chairs. Reckon there's enough give in the heel chair for the switch to move as intended. This is 3mm/ft. Nigel posted: 14 Feb 2019 05:24 from: Andrew Duncan Nigel Brown wrote: I build loose heel switches as loose heel switches. I use plastic chairs. Reckon there's enough give in the heel chair for the switch to move as intended. This is 3mm/ft. Hello Nigel Would you say a bit more about this approach? What sort of plastic chair are you using and does this mean you also have the electrical break at the heel? Are there issues/cautions needed when track cleaning? Sounds interesting. Kind regards Andrew posted: ...
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