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... has a long topic about it on RMweb: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/100879-printing-turnouts-on-a -3 -d -printer/ By the way, your attached image is an empty file. Did you exceed the 6MB limit? It's better to use the Image Gallery for pictures: http://85a.co.uk/forum/gallery_view.php?display=ALL#gallery_top edit: I see you did upload it to the Gallery. I have edited your message to include it. regards, Martin. posted: 10 Aug 2015 16:20 from: Les G Howard wrote: For filament deposition printers (such as the Makerbot I use for the MERG kits) the effect of temperature can help overcome this. The two servo mount kits illustrated were printed at different temperatures. The higher temperature makes the filament (PLA in my case) less viscous and so it does not span the gap. Howard, What you describe matches our droopy experience of overhangs with a RepRap, and with a ...
... suitable program to do it. I use Serif Drawplus. One question what is Sketchboard? posted: 30 Aug 2010 10:56 from: Martin Wynne Borg-Rail wrote: Creating graphics isn't a problem (except for lack of time) you just need a suitable program to do it. I use Serif Drawplus. Hi Stephen, I think there is more to it than that! I have the latest version of DrawPlus, several CAD programs, Impict image editor, and many other programs in which to create graphics, including of course Microsoft Paint. But making graphics which look attractive and inviting needs something more than just the tools. I can give you a nice blue rectangle with a thick red border and a big green dot in the corner. One question what is Sketchboard? Sketchboard is a new feature coming in the next Templot pug included in Templot2. It's a separate mini drawing package within Templot, customised to use track plans from the trackpad in a colourful full layout design. For control panels, exhibition guides, web sites, signal ...
... 2008 support for irregular diamond-crossings and curviform ladders platforms can be added alongside track templates check rails can now be individually set and adjusted by mouse action sketchboard layout drawing function rail foot edge lines can be shown on FB templates (flat-bottom rails) print menu renamed output menu output in diagram mode -- solid colour infill between stock rail edges Important: not available for partial templates if stock rails omitted -- temporarily lay plain track templates across complex formations to create diagram-mode output. output to PDF files, including large single pages for roll-paper poster printing export to bitmap image files in PNG, GIF, JPG, BMP formats export to vector image metafiles in EMF, WMF formats easy capture of screenshots to PNG files print now! function to bypass printer setup and calibration background picture shapes -- support for PNG, JPG, GIF image formats background picture shapes -- images saved in the BGS folder in SK8 format background picture shapes -- images can be wrapped along the control template additional top tool buttons: "beginner buttons ...
... woman who still seems to be very fond of me despite my rather eccentric hobby. Maybe its something to do with her training as a psychotherapist, I think I'm probably an interesting case study for her...can't otherwise understand why she should put up with a bit of trainset on the end 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 ...
... The central platform has bays each end and a solid middle section. Do I have to build that up as separate blocks? Sorry for so many questions today, but if you only run Templot two or three times a year, it's easy to forget how you did things. Attachment: attach_3046_3667_ET_Mimic_Plan.box 99 Last edited on 13 May 2020 16:49 by Gordon S posted: 13 May 2020 17:15 from: Ian Allen Gordon, You may be slightly circumspect with the chosen dimensions for you control panel. The one I've included below is 740mm x 220mm, and covers only a small portion (one station) on the SR7mm Group layout. You certainly have more trackwork to include on your plan so it may well be a tight squeeze. However, to give you an idea of how we overcame a few things, there is a mixture of both circular and rectangular LED's and toggle switches. In this instance though, the toggle switches are only there to isolate sections (DC Layout). We did use smaller circular LED's to indicate whether points ...
... understood the importance of saving user preferences. I seldom use the same ones twice, and compared with an hour on Templot and hundreds or even thousands of mouse clicks in a session, half a dozen clicks at the start to change a few settings seem insignificant. Especially compared with the great advantage of starting from a known repeatable condition every time -- which also makes it much easier for me to provide user support. But I've been asked for 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 you want to bypass the start-up dialogs, as far as that can ...
7. Index
... / posted: 25 Feb 2010 08:14 from: Martin Wynne BruceNordstrand wrote: I have thought this for a while now, but why don't you install one of the free Wiki products floating around. With one people could add their own info and take a hell of a load off yourself. Hi Bruce, Thanks for that, but I'm not sure how it differs significantly from what we have already. If anyone has something to contribute, please just post it here on Templot Club and then send me the link to include it in the index. Thanks. regards, Martin. posted: 25 Feb 2010 08:32 from: BruceNordstrand Martin It differs in the fact that YOU don't have to do anything, each USER can update/add (depending on permissions) themselves WITHOUT you intervention. This has to be better than taking up your time that you would rather be spending on Templot and would go a long way to satisfying those who want/need documentation. Please do not take this the wrong way but I get the feeling that ...
... code, and requests for help in modifying and compiling it. Which on top of the usual help requests from users would be just too much to cope with. In the event I was completely wrong, and the actual result has been almost total silence. I know of no-one working on or with the code, or at least if they are doing so they are keeping very quiet about it. Which leaves me wondering where we go from here? There is still a lot missing from the open source version, including the PDF exports and the entire sketchboard function. Should I be spending time on solving these issues? They are no 5-minute tasks. Or just leave the existing open source where it is for anyone who wants it and otherwise forget it? There is also the question of open sourcing my more recent work on Templot2. I am in the middle of a big update to the DXF exports for the 3D rendering and possible 3D printing of bullhead chairing. The code for that will need a lot of explanation and commenting ...
... app for my handheld GPS (Satmap 12) can do this. Since I always have that on anyway recording my route, I don't need the phone. So it turns out that I've had to hand the means to geotag my images for years without realising it. Thanks for nudging me towards the Geograph site to make me investigate this stuff. The icing on the cake would be if these GPS apps used OS grid refs instead of worldwide Lat/Lon but you can't have everything. There are lots of converters available, including on the Geograph site. I used to think that I would never forget where each photograph was taken... cheers, Martin. posted: 26 Feb 2018 19:01 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Thanks for the posting and the offer of more pics sometime. Don't put yourself out on my behalf though...but if you need an excuse for a walk, great. I have had dozens of digital cameras including top pro SLR's costing thousands. I too have a Fuji X100( the original ...
10. File preview
... to wade through loading into Templot looking, discarding, loading,,,,, Many applications have the ability to look at files without loading is this feasible in Templot. Appreciate it may not be easy but if you could take a look, I would be grateful. Cheers Godders posted: 14 Feb 2014 20:18 from: Martin Wynne Hi Godders, How would you see this working? I can't see an obvious way to see what's in a .box file without loading it. For new .box files we could perhaps include a screenshot of the trackpad, or a list of the storage box contents, or both, in the .box file for use by a "preview" function. And of course you can always set a meaningful file name, or put them in meaningful folders. But none of that is much help if you already have hundreds of anonymous .box files. A possible new function would be "next file" in which Templot reloads the next file in a folder on a single click or keypress? regards, Martin. posted ...
... with non-adjustable Peco templates? To import plans from AnyRail? A general dumbing down of the whole thing? Your thoughts welcome. Which bits of Templot2 do you really like? Which bits have you not even looked at? Which bits would you do differently? regards to all, Martin. posted: 31 May 2012 22:41 from: Ian Allen Hi Martin, Taking a break from the GOG, I can say that the introduction of irregular diamonds has helped me with Plan Y, as has the ability to include platforms and the dummy vehicle tool. I intended to use the gaunt function, but after some decisions made by others I now can't install any I've not really tried the sketchboard function as I haven't needed it to be honest. Regards Ian posted: 31 May 2012 22:52 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin OK- you know I've been using Templot for donkey's years, so here goes!...irregular diamonds... The strange thing is, that after all the clamour for them, they now hardly get a ...
... 12i=11567184 08-15i=0 08-17b=1 08-18b=0... etc etc Does that not refer to changes I have made on the output menu? I am looking to have two sets of prefs depending on if the printed output is used just for looking at or for building track on. Hope that makes sense. Must get to bed.. Rob posted: 19 Aug 2019 01:47 from: Martin Wynne Hi Rob, Currently the following settings on the output menu are included in the saved prefs: font for small corner page numbers sketchboard track-background width sketchboard track-background colour diagram mode track colour print in colour/grey shades/black+ white grid lines solid/dotted line thickness settings rail infill style timber infill style platform infill style full timber numbering on plain track on/off What else did you want? Unfortunately you just missed the boat. While you were posting I was running the installer script for version 223c. If you had posted an hour earlier I may have delayed ...
13. A user gives up
... help!) a (for me) fairly complex layout design and (at least) start construction- my project would never have got this far without TEMPLOT. As far as trap points- Brighton ones appear to be double bladed, so I've just inserted a turnout and shorten the overal length so that I only get the bits I want! As for Alan's proviso (above)- I would not claim to have that knowledge and would still say that it is possible to use TEMPLOT without it- like most software (including that designed by the so-called professional (or is it just commercial?) outfit run by Mr Gates) you do need to be using it to become fluent- like a foreign language. Take heart Martin and carry on the good work! best wishes Richard posted: 16 Jul 2013 11:05 from: Paul Boyd I think Matt has this right- many people (and I don't include John Lewis in this, as he's given it a good go) think Templot is just a layout design package. ...
... I think they are pretty close. The replacement microcontroller board for the printer is supposed to arrive here tomorrow. Cheers, Andy posted: 24 Nov 2018 20:26 from: Martin Wynne Andrew Barrowman wrote: Height 1.92 Width (head and foot) 0.80 Web thickness 0.32 Foot depth 0.32 Head depth 0.60 The last two are a bit sketchy because of the radii where the head and foot meet the web but I think they are pretty close. Hi Andy, Thanks. I will use those for a test file. I've included the prototype 1:2.75 (20deg) fishing angle (as you can see on the keys) which should hopefully allow for the internal rads on the model rail. It could be increased if nec. At present there is no location against the outer edge of the rail foot -- as on the prototype, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to drop the rail into the chair. That means location relies entirely on the key, I'm not sure how well that will work for a model. Plenty of trialling and errorring ...
... Rob, All in good time. The plan for the next few videos is to work through the remainder of the beginner buttons. 1. the other mouse actions which are unaffected by the peg position -- orbit and shift. 2. explain the basics about the fixing peg, but not the notch at this stage. Using F4 to set the length. 3. using F5 and F6 and how the red radius indicator is affected. 4. create a small bit of track plan using the remaining buttons. This will include the basic make tools, so will also need an explanation of stored templates and the control template. That is a concept which is so blindingly simple, and yet seems to be so alien to many. Every single word will have to be carefully judged. The basic methods of making: Double track oval with passing loop and siding (like a Triang train set with a couple of track extension packs) I'm not going anywhere near that, at least not in the short term. Such geometrical work is out of place ...
... fully realise this is a very daunting task and once my own Templot skills improve, I hope I will be able to contribute. Right now I don't know where or how to start so would be very grateful for any guidance you can provide. Last edited on 9 Nov 2007 13:36 by Gordon S posted: 9 Nov 2007 03:34 from: Martin Wynne Hi Gordon, Welcome to Templot Club. Great to see an ambitious main line project. You're right that it's a challenging design, because you want to include as much as possible of your existing pointwork while hopefully creating a flowing "Templot" design for new handbuilt curved pointwork. Before you began handbuilding you sent me some scans of your existing 00 pointwork, which I matched for you in Templot. The straight turnouts were a good match to A-7, and the diamonds matched 1:7 too. The curved turnout was near a C-10, but not such a good match: gordon_scans.png gordon_scans_a7.png I tried using these for the CJF terminus plan, and managed to ...
... with Crossover/Wine. Maybe even natively: 1. change the file extension from .exe to .zip 2. unzip it to extract the AVI video file. 3. play it. The AVI video requires the TSCC codec to be available on your system. If you don't have that, download the VLC open-source video player which comes with all popular codecs built-in: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.en_GB.html#download For the future I am changing to the FBR video format, and a player is included with Templot at help> video tutorials> new video player menu item. It works on Windows and Linux/Crossover/Wine. FBR files should open directly in the player, but if not use the File> Open... menu item on the player. The first FBR video is now available, see: topic 2511 and I shall in due course be converting the old videos to FBR format, in addition to making new ones. I appreciate that you are in <rant> mode, but I think ...
... surprising that beginners find it so difficult to find information. For me creating the Templot program itself is a piece of cake compared with the task of writing and maintaining the documentation for it, and I have to concede that I have failed miserably in that regard. My only consolation is that nowadays no-one is paying me for any of it. Here is a run through the present state of affairs: 1. First there is the original Templot Companion web site. Mostly written 15 years ago and barely updated since, including some lengthy static tutorials. Large parts of it are now out of date, or have been overtaken subsequently by many new features and functions. But it still contains more information in one place than anywhere else: 2_031328_430000000.png It's here: http://templot.com/martweb/templot_gs.htm 2. A few years after that, I started creating the Camtasia downloadable videos. They are also mostly out of date. There is a partial list of them on this page: 2_031328_430000001.png It's here: http://templot.com/martweb ...
... : I need to print out the whole trackplan on the whole scanned background map (showing building footprints etc) rather than just the control template- how can this be done? Hi Edward, Exactly as before. To print the entire track plan click the print> print entire pad menu item. However, I think you mean you want to reduce the size of the print so that it all fits on a single page, or maybe just a few pages? And perhaps to extend the print beyond the track templates to include all the background map? To change the size of the print click the print> enlarge/ reduce size> menu options. The new page size will be reflected in the dotted page outlines showing on the pad. However, it's usually much easier to set the size, and the position of the pages, by mouse action. That way you can see immediately what you are going to get when printed, and what will be included and what not included. Here's a scruff video showing the two methods -- in ...
20. P4 test track
... test all those things you talk about in your email. I haven't the space for a circular test track so the only way to find out if my stock will run through tight curves is to run them through turnouts. I used to belong to the North London Group which did have a circular test track which was great. Please feel free to email me if you need any further help. Kind regards Len Cattley posted: 21 May 2009 08:34 from: newport_rod A few thoughts then... Good idea to include one double slip – if you want to test your track-building technique. But maybe two in one too many; the top plan is very dependant on them. Good idea to include both facing and trailing crossovers to see how stock will run over them, although this will be limited by only having 340 mm to the left of the trailing crossover will limit its use. Although presumably you're constricted by only having 8' to play with. What are the minimum radius and smallest turnout on which the tested stock will ...
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