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... , so I had to make it as easy as possible. From what I can see the STL file format seems to be emerging as the common interchange standard for 3-D printing, but it's all quite new to me so I could be entirely wrong. Cheers, Andy posted: 4 Jan 2016 03:42 from: Andrew Barrowman Andrew Barrowman wrote: .stl file of a 00-BF V-6 turnout attached. This file is intended for viewing only. It requires further editing before 3D printing. New and improved! Attachment: attach_2199_2734_MW1e.stl 308 posted: 4 Jan 2016 03:44 from: Andrew Barrowman Andrew Barrowman wrote: Andrew Barrowman wrote: .stl file of a 00-BF V-6 turnout attached. This file is intended for viewing only. It requires further editing before 3D printing. New and improved! I took the liberty of equalizing the timbers on this version. Attachment: attach_2200_2734_MW1g.stl 308 posted: 4 Jan 2016 06:47 from: Andrew Barrowman Some screenshots of the assembly process using TurboCAD. The outline template is ...
... . The only reason I can think for this is economy of chair castings. This may be a one-off for this location (Newmarket) or maybe typical of GER/ LNER practice generally -- anyone know? vlcsnap-169994.png Picture linked from the PhotoBucket site: http://s193.photobucket.com/albums/z205/lamdelz/ regards, Martin. posted: 9 Sep 2018 18:20 from: Andrew Duncan Hello Fraser Thanks for younr thoughts. I'll try the control wire in the bottom arc and see if that improves things. Kind regards Andrew posted: 9 Sep 2018 18:31 from: Andrew Duncan Hello again Fraser I should have read a bit further down the page! I'm pretty unsure about using micro switches now but the Dingo looks the business with a sliding tie bar of sorts which would stop the arc motion very neatly. But at present I need to decide on how to switch the crossing s if I'm not going to use the micro switches. Thanks again for your posts. Andrew posted: 9 Sep 2018 18: ...
... and this is the result: 1. Full frame reduced to 20%: wagon_close_up2.jpg 2. Actual size dot-for-dot cropped from the (JPG) image. This is an area about 10mm x 8mm on the model, i.e. about 100 dots per mm. wagon_close_up1.jpg I'm well pleased with that, bearing in mind how little effort was needed to set it up. EXIF data says: F/16 1.2 seconds ISO 800 I'm sure with a bit of tweaking and use of a RAW image that could be improved. The wagon could do with a bit of tweaking, too. cheers, Martin. posted: 28 Feb 2018 14:04 from: Paul Boyd All this technical talk! I've recently bought a couple of, um, less technical cameras to play with! A Kodak Brownie 127 box set and a GB Kershaw 110. I've got film for them both so I'm waiting for some warm sunny weather to have a go with them! The Kodak costs about £1.50 per frame before developing (8 frames per roll! ...
... never look quite "knobbly" enough to properly represent bullhead track having wooden keys. cheers, Martin. posted: 28 Nov 2018 17:06 from: Trevor Walling Hello Andy and Martin, This is beginning to look really exciting.I hope newer printers can manage to reduce the layers effect on the surface which is an unfortunate effect on earlier types. Some of the results I have seen on Youtube lately look really smooth on surfaces of items being produced.I think 0.2mm nozzles could be a factor and if they are readily available a further improvement. Regards. Trevor posted: 28 Nov 2018 18:24 from: Paul Boyd I'm sort of half following this thread, and wondering why you don't use someone like Shapeways to get stuff printed using the SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) process? At work we have lots of low volume plastics made which suits us wonderfully, and the finish is a lot better than anything I've seen using extruded plastic. Although I use a "professional" printing company for most stuff, I'll also use Shapeways- they're mainly a hobbyist ...
... topic: 3214 Changes in 218d posted: 9 Feb 2018 17:58 from: Martin Wynne Here's a list of the changes in 218d: 1. I have made some changes to improve screen performance when zooming in and panning on a large track plan. See: topic 3207 How much difference it makes will vary with different systems and screen sizes. You may see no difference, or a big difference. On smaller track plans you probably won't see much difference. 2. There is a new option to restrict the number of background templates being shown on the screen when zooming out. Again this may or may not make a significant difference to the screen response. See the above topic link for more details. 3. I have re-written the code for the make return curve function. I was never entirely happy with its working, and it was often annoying that it wouldn't work on transition curves. It does now. At the same time I have adopted a non-standard way of working for that function. Instead of putting ...
... , knowing it would be contentious, just that it was an extra fine 00 standard which worked very well. Mention of the 16.2mm gauge was hidden in the small print. But customers liked it and always came back for more. The narrower flangeways made it look much finer than any other 00 pointwork. At that time they were using only "scale 00" wheels -- mostly white-metal kits with Romford wheels and axles. The running of such wheels on "EM minus 2" pointwork proved to be a big improvement on the alternative BRMSB standard (00-BF) -- not surprising when you do the arithmetic. There was no thought at that time of using "EM minus 2" for RTR stock. RTR was much too coarse at the time, nearly all serious 00 modellers would re-wheel it with Romford if they used any RTR at all. When I was developing Templot I remembered "EM minus 2", so I included it in the gauge list, and gave it the name 00-SF (" ...
... line total length of track plan templates and timbering shown in the storage box prefix tags can be added to the template name labels to aid group selection functions switch and V-crossings more clearly marked on printed templates new options for the appearance of the fixing peg page outlines on workpad -- default changed to off grid in front of background shapes -- default changed to off printed information page -- default changed to off background shapes -- blank infill now fills with colour Templot is now "dpi-aware" for much improved display on high-resolution screens and tablet computers Here's a round-up of the bits of Templot2 which are currently not working, work-in-progress, or entirely missing: updated to version 213b 1. In some places clicking the help and more information buttons and bars will do nothing or show empty pages. Writing the stuff to go in there is by far the most time-consuming part of developing Templot. 2. Several alerts and help notes include a more information online button or link, but it ...
... muddle. There are two separate issues here: 1. Restoring a user's program preferences on startup. Program preferences are things such as the grid settings, the colour of the storage box window, etc. At present we have no mechanism at all for this. That's what this topic is about. 2. Getting started with the desired track design settings in the control template. Template settings are things such as gauge and scale, timbering style, etc. There are existing functions for this. Like all things they could be improved, but they have proved adequate in practice. Let's stick to 1. for the present -- I want to implement a solution quickly so that I can get on with other things. regards, Martin. posted: 7 Mar 2009 08:11 from: Martin Wynne Nigel Brown wrote It "might" be possible to have something looking a bit more like Windows by, for example, seeing if the control menu could somehow be morphed into a File menu Hi Nigel, The File menu is already there -- ...
... labels has remained unchanged for years. By now there must be thousands of templates all called "no-name" -- which on the face of it doesn't make a lot of sense. I've felt for a long time that this area needed changing, without knowing quite what to do about it. Following this recent discussion by Richard and Arthur: topic 370- message 14648 I have been giving it some more thought. I've made some changes for the next program update, although I'm still not entirely sure it is an improvement. Maybe it is just change for change's sake. At present the template number simply represents its position in the storage box list, so the number changes as templates are inserted, deleted, etc., or the list is re-ordered on the storage box. This can be confusing when printing templates at different times because the template numbers (the prefix on the timber numbers) may have changed. There would be an advantage in giving each template additionally a fixed ID number which wouldn't change, and which would be ...
... problem I am experiencing with a double slip shown below It has been built to OO standards, along with the rest of the track on the layout (which with the exception of another double slip that I have yet to finish trouble shooting, all works ok). There have been a number of issues with the build of the slip but I think they have been now resolved (mostly around the gauge around the slip rails and the quality of the K checks. My intention is to lift the whole point and completely rebuild improving from the lessons learnt so far. However there is one area which is still giving me problems, when a train exits the branch platform (1) and heads towards the branch (4) the majority of times it will go straight on through the slip road towards 3 (or some axles will go to 3 while others go to 4 causing a derailment. Before I rebuild the slip, my concern is that this is being caused (or at least compounded by) the reverse curve between the platform and the slip ...
... first saw blade. 3669_261039_300000001.jpg The second saw blade i use is a much finer one with no corned teeth, just flat teeth and hand work To cut out the slots for the aluminium strip and trim the edges i use a jig and my jig saw: 3669_261039_290000000.jpg I can make a frog within 10 minutes with this method. But would be the frog any good, that is troubling me, before i am going to cut up some good material for the bin or derail a expensive live steamer. Please look for mistakes or improvements and tell me your thoughts and ideas about my frogs. This is just "training" material in the picture not the hard uv resistant, hammer proof, extruded pvc. For your convenience: 3669_251227_450000004.jpg 3669_251227_430000002.jpg 3669_251227_440000003.jpg Yes i am dead serious about designing and making every part, i even made a table to calculate the expansion of aluminium strip with temperatures when i am going to lay them down All the help/idea's/comments, i can get is really appreciated! this is not for a frog or ten or 50 ...
... you don't click the Sketchboard button you will never see it. It's still work in progress, but here are a couple of preview screenshots: 2_042200_050000000.gif 2_300514_470000000.png regards, Martin. posted: 30 Aug 2010 13:50 from: JFS Hi Martin, I think you are too hard on yourself- if you were to look down on the roof of a real goods shed/ loco shed/ whatever, it would look pretty boring also- these things only look "interesting" if seen as a 3D image I suspect The only improvement might be to tweak the colours- is there a re-colour image button? Apart from that, I think what you already have is more than fit for purpose. Perhaps you might create a gallery where if anyone creates a new image, it could be uploaded for sharing. Best Regards, Howard. posted: 30 Aug 2010 15:10 from: Brian Nicholls Martin Wynne wrote: If you don't click the Sketchboard button you will never see it. Hi Martin, Please tell me, where is the 'Sketchboard ...
... am starting track planning now so I can spend the next few months learning to build trackwork and then when the trackplan is completed hopefully produce some turnouts to put in store for the actual build. For the plain track; I am currently leaning towards DCC Concepts 'Legacy' flexi-track. I have spent much of Christmas on the steep learning curve for Templot and have created my first track plan( attached). I know that it is far from perfect having used some crude techniques to fit it together which hopefully can be improved on as my understanding of this fairly complex program increases. It is based on Huddersfield but with sufficient modifications that it could not reasonably keep the name( and I certainly do not have the skills to scratch build the magnificent main station building), hence the working name of 'Ravensfield'...Ravensthorpe is a small station between Huddersfield and Leeds. Allowing for misalignments and excess sleepers which I have struggled to remove in places: Does the plan work? From the top: 1st track is the spur on a rising gradient to ...
... fix it). Yes indeed! Though I think a view from the whole community would be valuable. I would hate to do a load of work on OT only to find that the result was unacceptable to the user community because of something we had removed! And interestingly, I saw a funny take on IIABDFI just yesterday- IIABFIUII- If It Aint Broke, Fix It Until It Is! Well, I liked it. I guess the wearer of the t-shirt was trying to highlight the differences between fixing and improving. I am sure the last 40 years work on Templot have been (mostly) improvement, not redundant fixes of what wasn't broke. I'm making good progress with a new file format for transfers to OT/MEC, I should be able to post a scruff release in a day or two. You will then be able to load Jim's .box files into OT/MEC to test the file viewer Great! I am at the point where I need it before I can go much further. I have figured out Lazarus ...
... plan, but there are others. I have checked the track centre spacing of your templates and these are set to the default for straight track of 44.67mm. I will have another look at tomorrow and get back to you. Not sure just how big a job correcting things will be until I have done so. Regards Tony W. posted: 27 Aug 2014 23:38 from: Tony W Hi Michael. Having now had a more detailed look at your track plan, I feel that although it may be possible to improve the design as it stands, I think it could be look rather better than it does as there are also several alignment issues that could be improved on. This is not to detract from what you have achieved so far which is quite impressive in parts, but if you are happy for me to do so, I would like to see what I can do with it. I will get back to you and hopefully save you some work. Tony W. posted: 28 Aug 2014 08:57 from: Michael ...
... from: Martin Wynne Dear all, The price of a Templot licence has remained unchanged for over 10 years. That means it is now much cheaper in real terms than it was, despite the many new features introduced over that time. I've allowed this situation to develop because I'm very aware of the deficiencies in Templot as a proper software product -- especially with regard to the confusing mess the user documentation is in. New users have been starting with the 10-year-old version 074b, despite the availability of much improved later versions, simply because 074b is the only version with a reasonably full set of user docs. But I've reached the end of my tether in trying to explain this over and over again in emails to users, despite the fact that it is fully explained in my order confirmation letter. If we carry on as we are I shall be ill. There is simply no way in the short term that I can find the time to update and re-write all the docs and tutorials, which would be necessary to ...
... array for aq index 25. Here's the code attached. cheers, Martin. Attachment: attach_2644_3221_aq25.txt 212 posted: 23 Feb 2018 09:10 from: Mark Barry Martin Firstly thanks for giving us the opportunity to glance into the inner workings, and a trip down memory lane- the compiler limitation of short variable names raised a smile. These days you need to be a better typist due to the length of the variable names (thank goodness for tab complete!). I think there may be a number of opportunities to improve performance of some of the computations. It all depends on the frequency these are called- but you mentioned that was 'many many times', so maybe. Some compilers can do these things for you, but others aren't that clever or are at least more conservative hence don't. That can be especially true when dealing with 'global variables'. In the HPC (High Performance Computing) arena optimizing computational code is really important (spent almost 20 years in this space). As computers are generally seen as 'fast', ...
... it possible to derive CAD-type (DXF?) machine readable outputs of specific point formations so that 'physical' templates could be cut out of wood or plastic of appropriate thickness? This would simplify the accurate fixing of the outer rails and crossing. I realize that this would only benefit those who are content with using a sub-set of 'standard' templates. In my case straight B-6s, and curved B-8s. But as I will need about thirty sets of points on my 'new-and-improved' layout it would appear a cost effective way of proceeding. [I am using Canadian 'FastTrack' filing jigs to prepare the crossing vees and points planing.] Many moons ago, when I started in model railways in the 50s, one could obtain such an item made out of Tuffnol- a hard plastic(?) that seems to have vanished from the market place. Probably manufactured the 'hard' way using a band-saw or such. Any comments on feasibility? And if positive, any pointers to suitable ...
... old track was the thickness of the sleepers, which if I am not mistaken was a designed to be compatible with ply and rivet construction. Over a decade or so ago the original designer of the system when designing the Exactoscale range accepted this design weakness and produced a new range with thicker sleepers, which in turn made it far more compatible with Peco streamline. For a period of time C&L sold the Exactoscale track in meter lengths as their thick track which was very popular. Phil has revisited the product and made improvements which he believes the consumer wants. Going back 2/3 years ago on another forum there was plenty of 00 gauge modellers who vehemently disagreed with you views, they wanted a quality product under their stock to 4 mm scale. This fits their requirements and to top it off it will come with HiNi rail which looks much closer to steel than nickle silver rail. Now it would be nice if this standard of product was available in both EM& P4 gauges, the issue is would they (EM& P4 modellers ...
... I tried straightening an exported image from the top section of your plan, and then stretching it a bit deeper: gordon_straightened_top_9000x1800 .png gordon_straightened_top_9000x1800 .png The bottom section of your plan could go below it on the mimic panel. It's 9000 x 1800 dots, so should print smoothly up to about 30" wide. At that size it would be quite smooth, like this: 2_131515_310000000.png This is just a first stab, we could change the colours for different lines, etc., to whatever you want. I think I can also improve the sweep of the tracks with some trial and error in the straightener. Is this the sort of thing you had in mind, or am I barking up the wrong tree? cheers, Martin. posted: 13 May 2020 21:41 from: Gordon S Hi Martin, only just seen your post. I'm not a late night person, so will take a look at it tomorrow. Interestingly enough, I'm coming round to a single straight line plan, as long as it is all in one piece and not ...
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