... a rather low melting point, it's quite hard, and it makes turnout bases that are surprisingly rigid, sufficiently so that it's possible to drag straight rail through the chairs for wings and checkrails. More to follow (PS- My Templot message alerts are no longer going to spam.) Last edited on 12 Aug 2015 01:43 by Andrew Barrowman posted: 12 Aug 2015 10:26 from: LSWRArt There are some nice 3D printed 7mm chairs here- unfortunately not available in 4mm. http://www.shapeways.com/ ... that Martin could take a look at it with Meshlab. Before you try to print it, you might want to run it through Netfabb to repair any defects. The .stl was produced in TurboCADpro16, and it sometimes has issues. Also, you might want to add webs to connect the timbers. I left them out for viewing clarity. I have attached the .box file that generated the design. You can find photos of similar turnouts I produced on RMweb. My "handle" there is AndyID. I'll post some of ...

... required amount of LED's and controllers from DCC Concepts, so thought I'd make a start on creating the track plan. My first thought was to use Sketchboard, but once I started to enlarge the panel, the track edges became jagged. The final mimic panel is going to be something like 800mm long by 400mm deep. I can't say the exact size as it's going to be governed by the need to place LED's within the track lines. The bezels of the LED's are 7mm diameter. In total there will be at least ... LED's on the panel showing the turnout detection of 36 turnouts. What is the best way of accomplishing this? Ideally I would like to add six platform faces and text to show lines to the MPD and hidden storage traverser. All ideas grateful accepted.... posted: 13 May 2020 12:47 from: Martin Wynne Hi Gordon, From memory your roundy-roundy layout is squarish, about 15ft/4500mm square? A panel 800mm x 400mm isn't the least bit squarish, so I'm wondering what you have in ...

... on.... Rob posted: 16 Jul 2018 23:59 from: d827kelly A great addition to templot! posted: 17 Jul 2018 08:12 from: richard_t I've been doing similar, in 2D, using my cad program- I think I'd go slightly crazy doing a full plan, even though the chairs are blocks so they just need putting in the correct place. Attached is a simple A6 turnout, without the crossing chairs- it's a PDF, as the PNG I generated looked awful. Attachment: ... are needed to fit the space. For 3D printing it needs to be in the DXF file. So this is where I've got to: 2_161458_330000000.png Just the chair bases so far. The next job is to change the rails to a proper bullhead section. Then add the keys, and the chair jaws. And the chair screws. There is a lot still to do. I may be gone for some time. Just to be clear, the above wasn't drawn in a CAD program, it is the DXF export from ...

... the 1980s. Unlike the later copies on Macintosh and Windows systems, Xerox engineers insisted that the same drop-down menus and mouse actions were employed on all applications be it document creation, spreadsheet, slide presentation, database or anything else. This meant you could go away on holiday for several weeks and pick up where you left off without having to think what you were doing. (It's interesting to note that when Apple sued Microsoft for copying "their" window interface, the case was thrown out because Microsoft successfully demonstrated ... saved preferences so often that I give in. In the next pug I will include the option to save some of your settings. But I need to know which ones -- I can't do every single thing that might be changed in Templot (although I can add more in each subsequent pug). So if you would like to reply to this with some of the things you would want saved between sessions, we can compile a short list of say two dozen settings for inclusion. We can take it as read that ...

... they already know what that is. In which case they have a completely different starting point on the NEW dialog and don't need to know anything about mouse actions and track planning at this stage. So they are better off jumping out of the track planning tutorial and going straight to the template printing video instead. There are a great many users in this "I just want to print a template instead of buying one" category. It was after all the original purpose of Templot. I don't know how else to cater for ... ) that is incomplete, and I refer to the in-app help 5. A requirement that some understanding of prototype track work is necessary, that many modellers actually have no idea about in reality( rather like they typically know nothing about signalling either) Now add all that up and you have a tremendous learning curve. All we can collectively say, it that, thank God we have Martins patience, and his knowledge of both model railway track and the prototype The issue isn't simply Templot, its Templot combined with a ...

... updating it for Templot2, and I will put re-directs to mend the broken links. I removed it because I got tired of writing "here's a link, oh by the way it's all out of date". I'm 70 this year. I'm not going to be pushed into doing anything faster or sooner than I choose to do it. p.s. We are moving to a new server in the next few weeks. The disk in the present one has been spinning continuously for 6 years and Jim feels it's time ... any programmer will tell you Martin that getting your hands around old code is very difficult, especially when its written in a form alien to the developer considering it, so for example, non-OOP, or uncommon languages( like Pascal derivatives) etc. Then add in the size of the intended audience, most of whom are not programmers and you have a very very( vanishingly small) interest group Of course" someone" could do it better, thats always the case, but would anyone want to, thats the ...

... gauge layouts together in recent years, one using Peco track and points, the other using Peco track and Marcway ready-to-use point work. I'm now about to start on my big long term layout and have decided to take the plunge and have a go at hand-building all the scenic trackwork. Now this is something I've never done before, so I'm hoping somebody may be able to help and give me some guidance. I've used Templot to draw out the track plan and make sure everything works, I'm ... line after using the adjustments to find a clearance spacing. Always do this before creating the double track. The dummy vehicle is always on the centre-line location, so if that's not in the centre of the track it can get confusing: 2_011409_320000000.png I will add an option to globally reset this on all background templates in one go. The widest required clearance is on the smallest radius, so it makes sense to use that for measuring. I think you were rather overdoing it, a spacing of 92mm centres seems enough ...

... names you could see the earliest or final version of a particular file name.You could always look at a files properties in explorer to find the date of last modified status to start putting them in some meaningful order.Assuming you are using Windows.I sometimes just reload the box files by Going to storage box and reload and replace existing contents.If you have particular versions including a date in the name it is really simple to keep track.(No pun intended) 2110_151018_220000000.png 2110_151022_350000000.png Trevor Last edited on 15 Feb 2014 15:22 by Trevor Walling posted: ... hand up, because I too have a large number of .box files accumulated over many years and it would be very useful. I would also find it helpful to annotate a whole Templot file by putting text notes at particular points of interest. At present you can add and edit a memo text note of any length to any template, which is then included in the file. For notes about the entire box, you could perhaps add them to the memo notes for the first template. Or maybe create a dummy template called ...

... re-design. Extra width is possible -- it's currently 1020 and nowadays I allow for up to 1200. cheers, Martin. posted: 4 Nov 2019 18:16 from: Martin Wynne Martin Wynne wrote: p.p.s. re the Lazarus controls. I'm going to have a go at recreating the old Delphi controls programmatically. That was my original intention when I couldn't find a match in Lazarus. I left it undone then because it's not a 5-minute task, and "have a go" is just as ... make me want to come back to the UK. I am envious. Hi Graeme, Thanks. We do have an outdoor photography topic on here with several pages of such. In fact that is where I should have posted them. You are very welcome to add pictures from your part of the world if you wish: topic 3228 cheers, Martin. posted: 30 Nov 2019 13:36 from: Graeme Martin Wynne wrote: You are very welcome to add pictures from your part of the world if you wish Thank ...

... topic: 1054 Getting Started withTemplot posted: 23 Feb 2010 12:18 from: Nigel Brown Ken I spent 30 years as a software developer/manager in a university computer service, before going off some 12 years ago to do "other things", as I always intended I should. Throughout that period producing documentation for the inexpert users of the software was a central part of the activity, in particular "getting started" documentation to get users actually using the software for something useful, as well as documentation for ... need a shelf-full to do it justice, and wading through that lot would be a daunting prospect. cheers Nigel posted: 8 Mar 2010 09:50 from: Gordon S Morning guys, I have only just seen this thread, but would like to add a couple of comments as I have some empathy to both sides of the discussion. So up front: 1. I'm a great fan of Templot. It has allowed me to prepare a comphensive plan of a large (18' square) multi level layout ...