... of our dining table week in week out? Anyway domestic arrangments apart, back to the layout. Here are few pictures of what Ive been describing above...if I can recall how to upload? 2787_191503_490000000.jpg This view shows the underside wiring including the servos for turnouts controlled by the Megapoints electronics which seem rather like magic to me....! 2787_191512_420000000.jpg Yeovil point rodding under construction last month. Unlike Howards point rodding mine doesn't have to work luckily, as even this non working set up took an age to do. Incidentally I used Modelu point rodding stools which really are quite exquisite models (if only I could see all the detail!) Howards cranks, compensators etc and Eileen's metre long 0.4mm straight brass wire( this may have been a mistake as I've since read that brass gets damaged easily and perhaps nickel silver would have been stronger). I'm getting rather strange effects on the computer screen now so I think I'll quit whilst I'm ahead and try and upload this as it is. Kind regards Andrew posted: 20 Feb 2017 06: ...

... how big- how much are you using now? You can still get RAID setups, but they should not be considered backup systems. They are there in case one hard drive fails. For data security, you need a physically separate setup. Oh, you might like to consider a dual-monitor setup. You'll wonder how you ever managed without it, and you will then also be hassling Martin to make Templot support dual monitors Paul posted: 7 Jul 2007 02:15 from: Raymond Gibson Hi, Co-incidentally, my computer is feeling the strain& (although trying to postpone it for a year) I am considering a more powerful one. I will use my local computer supplier (either in U.K. or U.S.A.) to build one. None recommend using Vista yet- stick to XP which still does the job. They do not advise an up-date, but a new one...& that advice is genuine, not to earn extra money (it will cost twice as much, but will not ...

... 10:57 by rodney_hills posted: 11 Feb 2014 14:08 from: Ariels Girdle JFS wrote: The LCDR was an enigma, yes they understood budgets, but equally, they had no right to put a railway here at all, and no expense was spared on the station frontage. And they built Crystal Palace High Level! Cheers, Howard I think the LCDR used nominally independent companies to further its aims on some projects like the Crystal Palace branch- lots of smaller bubbles, rather than one very large one. Incidentally, how are you planning to draw the diamond crossings, as I thought Templot wouldn't create these automatically on transition curves? Just curious, as I want to learn! posted: 11 Feb 2014 14:59 from: Martin Wynne Ariels Girdle wrote: Incidentally, how are you planning to draw the diamond crossings, as I thought Templot wouldn't create these automatically on transition curves? Hi Ariels Girdle, Not automatically, but it's not difficult to do: Move the peg to the intersection, then geometry> constant radius. ...

... from: Tony W Hi Bob. Martin makes the point I was going to make that when you look in your Shapes-Files folder you should find two files, a .bgs and the original .bmp. I was going to suggest that you email me both the .bmp and .bgs file so I can, A: see what the .bgs file shows in the window, (have you still got 32,000 shapes?) and B: try to load it myself and see what happens. What scale are you working in incidentally? I know from other Templot users they have problems with the background shapes function and I must admit it took me a little while to get to grips with it, but it is worth persevering with because it is such a useful function. Incidentally, it was the lack of a solution to your dilemma that finally persuaded me to join the forum. Tony W. posted: 7 Sep 2011 12:48 from: Martin Wynne Tony W wrote: Incidentally, it was the lack of a solution to your dilemma that ...

... has any info. Have you considered a 1:1 plug in for people like me who can't afford the professional software for full size layouts? If any of your users, perhaps local to Telford, would be interested in creating a drawing of our yard it would be of great interest as we are planning to remove a standard turnout with an interleaved 3 way, and also replacing/repairing an interleaved 3 way swinging heel design which was partially removed over 50 years ago, and your software might just help with that. Incidentally whilst browsing your newsgroup I saw a comment that 'prototype switches don't have a radius'- that simply isn't the case. Every turnout has a switch radius and a turnout radius, even if the main is straight. Allan Smith Webmaster Telford Steam Railway regards, Martin. posted: 18 Jan 2010 13:00 from: JimH Hi All, I used to live in Telford about 5 minutes from the railway, in fact I walked past their yard every day walking my dogs. Recently however I have moved to France ( ...

... look. Thanks for the compliment about the Mitchell kit but infact it was easier than the Finney (partly prototype) and in fact both these paragons are very well thought out and, if one is tempted to follow the instructions, then a very nice model results. They just take a long time! If you need another Collett Goods then let me know as I have one going spare (another casualty of changing period) and a Collett Hall with the frames sticking out above the running plate, LMS like, ditto. Incidentally when I referred to 516 class yesterday, I actually meant 517 class, another beautiful small tank engine. I think my 2251 had a seam showing on the top of boiler which I dealt with, with Swan Morton blade I seem to remember. I didn't know they had a join in the cladding on top; fairly easy to remedy I suppose? Shame about the 72xx, you could always get a black one and spray it...! Kind regards Andrew Last edited on 4 Nov 2018 23:01 by ...

... : 3 Aug 2012 21:03 from: Robert Preston I agree with Howard about the control template. If the template looks like a background template, you know it has been stored. If it looks like the control template I, at least, can often not remember if I stored it or not. If I didn't, I will lose it if I select another template as the control. If I did store it, but am not sure and do another store and background, I end up with excess templates. Incidentally, given the demand for key shortcuts, is there a reason for having two keys (Ins and Ctrl-V) do the same job? Robert posted: 3 Aug 2012 21:06 from: JFS Are you sure it was that feature which people hated? I confess I did not look closely enough to comment- and I should have done- you might have then got one positive response to add to the confusion! I wonder if making this one aspect "user selectable" might be a way out of ...

... 1:1 template should be usable in practice. More discussion about short diamond crossings here: topic 160 I don't think your problem with the broken wing rails is anything to do with your computer, it is clearly a program fault. I have been unable to reproduce it here, but I feel it is related to adjustments to the wing rail reach length and flare length. I would be grateful if you could attach a .box file containing that template (save group), so that I can investigate further. Thanks. Incidentally, your second screenshot is showing a regular crossing rather than a curviform one. But there is something odd there too, as the CESP marker is in a strange position. Perhaps you could include that template in the file also. Thanks again. regards, Martin. posted: 29 Apr 2011 15:26 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Martin, Many thanks for the reply, I must apologise for the rather large screenshot pictures, unfortunately I attached the original generated file, I had post-processed a reduced version of ...

... !!!! (not that I can hear it at work!). Generally, background music for this sort of thing, where you're trying to concentrate on what you're being told, is just a distraction. It certainly wouldn't be worth bumping a file up from 2.5M to 9.3M for- it took ages to download on the 1M connection at work. A voice-over commentary would be good though, and as Jim says you could have it in mono at a lower sample rate to keep the filesize down. Incidentally, I've just been tortured with the typical "railway video" background music on the RM CD. Who writes and plays this plinky-plonky stuff? posted: 27 Nov 2007 17:00 from: Martin Wynne Jim Guthrie wrote: When adding your voice-over, see if your software will accept mono instead of stereo. That will half your sound file size. Also, I don't know if it is possible with your software to adjust the sound sample rate and bit rate. You might find that if you ...

... search on "changing gauge", you should find more info, but basically it means that the turnout lead lengths will change from the plan. On a small layout, this may be manageable, but on one of this complexity I think you'll find that things start going adrift much sooner. I hate to say it, but I think you need to re-do it all in EM gauge so that you don't start finding problems when you're cutting rail- it's much better to find problems on the computer screen first! Incidentally, you forgot to include the bitmap with the BGS, so there's a big "empty picture" where bitmap should be! The BGS doesn't include the bitmap- it just provides the detail of how it should be displayed. Cheers posted: 1 Aug 2010 15:29 from: geoff Paul Boyd wrote: Hi Geoff. That's an impressive plan, but there's one huge snag:- The plan is drawn in "S4-exact" but the model would be in EM. If you do a search on " ...