... topic: 1824 Flipping track! posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:15 from: Mike Waldron Good Morning all: I have been working on 3-way interlaced turnouts- both with mixed and similar point types- B8/ B6 as well as B6 /B6 each way. my question is: once you have produced the exact track formation what you want, and found that you also need the other-handed version, is there a way to group the whole formation and just flip it in mirror image? Do I have to go through the whole building process all over again? Mike posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:49 from: Martin Wynne Mike Waldron wrote: my question is: once you have produced the exact track formation what you want, and found that you also need the other-handed version, is there a way to group the whole formation and just flip it in mirror image? Hi Mike, 1. Select them as a group. 2. group> duplicate group if you want to keep the originals. ...

... topic: 299 NER sleepered single junctions posted: 4 Jan 2008 20:10 from: Bob Ellis Hi Martin, Several months ago you were kind enough to create a North Eastern Railway 1:8 sleepered single junction template for me, which I have found very useful. The conversion of my garage into a bespoke railway room is now nearly complete and I want to get down to finalising the design of the layout that will go into it. This will be a pre-grouping NER layout in P4, so I have started trying to produce my own single junctions to various sizes between 1:6.25 and 1:8.75. I can produce the V-crossing I want and I can create the correct sizes of sleepers and shove them into position, but I am not sure what to do about the switch. I know NER switches were non-standard and I presume I therefore need to construct a custom switch. There are tables in the NER Permanent Way Standards that give me the length of switch for each angle of single junction, ...

... S-W Hi Godders I only actually know one person personally who built a 00-sf layout but he scrapped it to build a p4 one. Having said that Phil did likewise with Calcutta and that was EM. Its one of the reasons I said I do actually support better track as ultimately it gets people looking and (in my experience) they choose p4 of thier own bat. Truth is if I'd have used 00sf I wouldn't have saved any time at all on the track building front and to be fair the 10 mins or so it takes to swap wheels from OO to p4 is insignificant compared to the time it takes to detail and weather the stock. Cheers Jim posted: 17 Feb 2014 18:53 from: polybear Jim S-W wrote: Truth is if I'd have used 00sf I wouldn't have saved any time at all on the track building front and to be fair the 10 mins or so it takes to swap wheels from OO to p4 is insignificant compared to the time it takes to detail and weather the stock. ...

... draw a double slip. Simple question however. When converting a turnout from say a B7 to a half diamond the various gaps and check rails all seem in place at the centre of the crossing. When I select a C10 turnout though and convert to a diamond crossing, the rails at the centre of the crossing are all together and no gaps exist. (Apologies for not knowing the technical terms for the various component parts of a crossing). Does this mean you cannot build a conventional double slip using a 1:10 crossing? Do you have to generate a completely different form of double slip? Last edited on 20 Dec 2007 02:25 by Gordon S posted: 20 Dec 2007 02:39 from: Paul Boyd Ah-ha- I had this the other day! The fix is very simple. From the menus, it is 'real'=> 'K-crossing options' then click on 'Fixed K-crossings'. That's the easy bit- the difficult bit, I think, will be making a double slip ...

... years. OSM is at: http://www.openstreetmap.org/about Nowadays the OSM servers update most zoom levels within a couple of minutes, so it's much easier to check your work than it used to be. Press CTRL+ F5 to refresh your browser if you don't see a change after a few minutes. Be warned though, editing OSM can be very addictive. This new function will be in the next program update. Comments welcome. Would you ever use this? regards, Martin. posted: 23 Jul 2017 10:57 from: Nigel Brown Would I use it? Possibly. It's certainly nice to have it there. For anyone interested in modelling real locations it could well be very useful. posted: 25 Jul 2017 14:15 from: Martin Wynne Updating, there has been some discussion on the Scalefour Society forum about this, see: http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f =5 &t =5502 The NLS have a tile server, but only the historic 1"/mile map is available ...

... to try printing chairs (or exactopips) directly onto ply or limewood or plastic timbers, placed into some sort of jig or locator printed first. Lots of ideas to try, but I fear the as-supplied software isn't going to be much use for them and I shall have to write something myself. I have already been editing the g-code manually to get anything to work at all. The software would be fine if I needed a Toby Jug. cheers, Martin. posted: 9 Dec 2018 23:10 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Yes using the new technology with Exactoscale or other available products could be a good plan too. I am a fan of thin timbering as they generally suit the kinds of layout I am likely to model where well tended ballast isn't the norm. Think goods depots, loco sheds, industrial sites and such like. I tend to favour plastikard timbers with thickness to suit- the 0.020"(0.5mm) is good but it precludes printing the bases with webbing between the timbers. It would ...

... Martin, Please don't apologise! You've been incredibly helpful and I can totally understand what your doing and achieving. Through watching that I've learnt something else new! Rich posted: 2 May 2016 17:40 from: Martin Wynne Hi Richard, Here's a variant to consider. I straightened out the road across the diamond, which looks a bit more prototypical. On the other hand you lose the effect of stock snaking through a reverse curve. The middle turnout is B-5.5 curviform. The long straight turnout is C-10 regular. 2_021237_430000000.png .box file below. regards, Martin. Attachment: attach_2273_2872_marsh_lane_yard_j unction_mod.box 308 posted: 2 May 2016 19:37 from: RK Hi Martin, Yes, I must admit, that looks a lot better. I must remember to change that top point to a diamond crossing, or else the Up Relief leads onto the Down Main! I'm going to try and have a look at some of these bits later tonight. I see you've done one thing I thought about, but couldn't get to work, changing ...

... you do, the bells and whistles I was commenting on were more to do with tweaks and changes to the font sizes, messages and such like( assuming you remember to take out the spacebar option). Do you get any analytics in terms of how many people watch the different videos? You could delay answering questions on technique until you had evidence that the poster has seen the video Rob posted: 24 Oct 2017 21:38 from: Matt M. Hi Martin, It works in Safari running on the Apple OS 10.. A little fuzzy as usual with Apple's display but readable and responds to the stop and restart requirement perfectly well. Matt M. posted: 24 Oct 2017 22:49 from: Paul Boyd Martin Wynne wrote: Despite mentioning this several times, no-one has confirmed to me that the same applies to their devices, or to Apple iPads, or anything else. On the iPad, Safari is the native browser, and it works fine as I mentioned earlier! posted: 24 Oct 2017 22:55 ...

... represent an easy-to-find sub-set of the most-used functions. I agree that the NEW function is a bit of an odd man out. It's there primarily for users who don't want to do track planning, just print a bog-standard template. I have tried to shunt such users into a separate way of doing things from the track planners. I'm not convinced it works very well, but I don't know how else it might be done. cheers, Martin. posted: 30 Jan 2018 10:31 from: Trevor Walling Hello Martin, I think too much worry is expended about people not being able to do this or do that. We keep hearing how Windows users do something this way or that. I don't believe this is true as Windows is changing all the time and its users manage to adapt. The same can be said about Android as well,and Linux is just the same. The key factor is people becoming familiar with a particular piece of software by just using it. I find word ...

... is a 4mm scale point filing jig available on the market? I have one for 7mm done by the Scaleseven group, but at the moment I file up 4mm and 2mm point blades by hand. Just starting a 4mm layout with some 24 turnouts and really don't want to have to file all the blades by hand/ eye, and the current budget for this does not run to C&L blades. Steve posted: 23 Feb 2011 21:23 from: polybear They're available from the EMGS- see here (page 10): http://www.emgs.org/images/stories/Price_List_32Ac_A4.pdf HTH Brian posted: 23 Feb 2011 21:46 from: Steve Stubbs Thanks for the fast reply Brian. The law of SOD of course means it is about the only society I don't belong to! thanks Steve posted: 24 Feb 2011 19:29 from: Phil O Just go along to an exhibition that they are attending with the trade stand, or Expo EM at Bracknell in May. You won't need membership then. Cheers Phil posted: ...