... has to be that Templot is nowadays free to use on a "take it or leave it" basis. I'm happy to help with matters relating to the program functions and railway track, but if it won't run on your computer that is your problem, not mine. All that having been said, I'm convinced that the problems are related to anti-virus software. Here is something I wrote earlier this year when similar problems cropped up with 214b (all eventually resolved by fixing anti-virus settings): "Windows 10 comes with its own anti-virus program called Windows Defender. It may not be the most all-singing ultra powerful anti-virus program, but it deals with all common threats and 99% of the rest -- with the great advantage that it "just works" in the background. No endless pop-up messages, no nagging requests for subscriptions, no noticeable effect on system performance. Unless you are in the habit of visiting dodgy web sites, Windows Defender seems to be all that a sensible user ...

... topic: 1296 digital trends -- and Templot? posted: 27 Nov 2010 10:16 from: Martin Wynne 15 years ago many homes had an IBM-pattern Business Computer, desperately pretending to be a domestic appliance but in truth serving little recreational purpose and requiring a tame teenage geek to do anything remotely technical, such as connecting to the internet or printing a photograph. But it was an ideal gadget on which to plan a model railway, and I developed Templot for it. Go into PC World today and where are the desktop computers? All but gone. Instead there is a dazzling display of sleek must-have mobile devices, itouch raspberry padpod netphones with enough computing power in the palm of your hand to run a nuclear power station. It's almost impossible to come out without one. Perfect if you want to tweeter to your friends from the back of the bus, or get the closing prices on the London Metal Exchange while sitting on the train home. But run Templot? Several people have told me that Templot is now ...

... topic: 1405 building order for double slip? posted: 6 Mar 2011 10:31 from: Nick R I've built a few turnouts before but the most complex to date was a Barry slip. I've now started on a double slip (or double compound in GWR speak) and have the outer slip rails and vees in place. My question is, where do I go from here? With a simple turnout the order of construction is fairly obvious and I would continue in a way that allows me to gauge each new added rail from those already in place. Maybe I can't see the obvious, but it's not clear to me what the best order of assembly is to ensure that I can always gauge new rails from existing ones. What's your recommended order for building one of these? Nick posted: 6 Mar 2011 11:24 from: Paul Boyd Hi Nick If you have a look at my website at http://www.paul-boyd.me.uk then go to the "Rural Railfreight" page, you'll see a photo sequence of a ...

... the hide control to make it visible again. Then Ctrl+ O again, this time click every box to invert all the rail settings. Now go Real> Timbering> No timbering and you should have only one rail visible. The visible length can now be adjusted by using either F4 to adjust the overall length or Ctrl+ F3 to adjust the blanking length. It will make sense when you try it. Tony. Attachment: attach_1264_1720_aonach_mark_2_11 _12_09_2330_53.box 413 Last edited on 9 Dec 2011 23:37 by Tony W posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:59 from: Jim Guthrie John Palmer wrote The projected layout features one tandem turnout, the employment of which is fairly critical as I haven't found a satisfactory alternative way to fit in the required facilities. Whilst I am reasonably content with the geometry of this tandem unit, I am much less happy about the interlacing of the timbers. I have scoured every photograph available to me of NBR trackwork, but have yet to find one that clearly shows a tandem, let alone reveals any clues as to North ...

... topic: 142 OS track maps online posted: 25 Aug 2007 10:53 from: Martin Wynne Track maps online for use in Templot background scans. Dear all, Here is a very useful web site if you are modelling present-day tracks. This is an online government resource of OS maps. At first it doesn't look very promising, but if you keep zooming in eventually it breaks into vector mapping down to the level of individual rails. This OS vector mapping is very expensive to buy, but this is a free resource of small extracts for planning purposes. Unfortunately it has a rather prominent watermark on every image. click: OS Planning Maps Using the tools on the left, click or draw a rectangle to zoom in, or drag the map to pan. Right-clicking to save the image doesn't work, but in Firefox you can use the Tools> Page Info> Media function to do Save As... on the map image. Note that there is a time limit for doing this after displaying the page - ...

... topic: 2408 K-crossing check rails on double slip posted: 18 Feb 2014 01:10 from: Len Cattley Does anybody know how to put the wing rails on a double slip, I have put the other rails on but don't know how to do the rest? I have put a file attachment so you can see what I have done. Len Attachment: attach_1760_2408_S7_V10_double_sis sors_crossing.box 374 posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:49 from: Martin Wynne Hi Len, I think you mean the K-crossing check rails? Because the crossing is flatter than 1:8 you shouldn't have a fixed K-crossing. The prototype rules do not allow it -- it would be very unreliable with vehicles frequently mis-tracking, and the same applies for a model. Instead Templot has drawn a 1:10 switch-diamond with movable K-crossings. Such crossings do not have check rails. If you insist on having a fixed K-crossing, you can get Templot to draw it, including the check rails, by setting the ...

... separate template for reference -- in which case you may just as well refer to one of the standard templates such as the Exactoscale range. But if you really want a chaired template you can do it now -- use the picture shape wrapping functions to put an Exactoscale straight template under the curved Templot rails, like this: s4_soc_b8_curved_crossover_print_1 .png s4soc_b8_3.png More about this here: topic 2271 and here: http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p =25066#p25066 regards, Martin. posted: 13 Mar 2015 10:23 from: JFS Martin Wynne wrote: I know we have been here many times before -- but what is actually wrong with Templot which can generate such a hostile reaction? Hello Martin, You saw my personal list of "could-get in a tizz about" on RM web- but they have all been debated before (and get mentioned again above). As you said in RMWeb- you are already aware. The bottom line is that you might see the same outward reaction from three or four ...

... topic: 1240 10 years old posted: 9 Sep 2010 21:42 from: Martin Wynne Without anyone noticing, we had a 10th birthday last week. The Templot email group, forerunner of Templot Club, was founded on 1st September 2000. The group still contains a full archive of all 15,936 messages posted between then and now: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/templot/messages/ In that time we have also gained 870 members. So thanks to everyone for making Templot Club what it is. We are not the biggest or most active model railway forum on the web, but we are one of the longest established. And as far as I can remember, in all that time not a single cross word. Thanks again to all, Martin. posted: 9 Sep 2010 21:55 from: John Lewis Martin wrote: So thanks to everyone for making Templot Club what it is. We are not the biggest or most active model railway forum on the web, but we are one of the longest established ...

... BOX file in case it helps. Regards Alan Attachment: attach_1476_2034_gotthard_ramp_201 2_07_27_1521_04.box 283 posted: 27 Jul 2012 15:25 from: Martin Wynne Hi Alan, Can you clarify what you are trying to do? I thought you were asking about the plain track settings? regards, Martin. posted: 27 Jul 2012 15:33 from: Martin Wynne p.s. Alan, I notice in your file that you have the rails set to FB, but the switch is an REA bullhead size. posted: 27 Jul 2012 16:10 from: Alan McMillan Hi Martin I'm trying to make sure that my modified sleeper spacings are correct for all new templates I create in my new plan before I start it. I'm hoping to avoid having to go back and modify things later on as I'm a great one for forgetting details like that until I've done a ton of work. The REA turnout was used simply because I wanted to check that the modified spacings would appear and since it was the first one to come up I didn't bother to change it. In ...

... topic: 124 00-SF history and information posted: 10 Aug 2007 05:25 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, There has been a rather acrimonious discussion about 00-SF on the RMweb forum today in which my name has been mentioned. I thought I would write a few notes about the background to 00-SF. Please feel free to copy this to RMweb or the 00-SF group if you wish. I myself have manufactured hundreds of 00-SF turnouts and sold them to very satisfied customers. They weren't actually called "00-SF" at the time, I just called them "00 extra fine". Some were on plain copper-clad timbering. Some were on my milled copper-laminate timbers with raised chairing effect. They all worked just fine as advertised. What follows is my best recollection of events more than 30 years ago. After all this time I confess my memory is much less than perfect, so if anyone reading this knows different, please do say. I could probably find out ...