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1. Questions on the basic fundamentals on prototype (and scale model) turnout dimensions and design met
... will scream the dreaded words "compromise"). I have tried ringing the changes, such as changing from B to C or D type turnouts (and/or visa versa) and in some cases this has worked and created alignment of both sides, but alas not in every case. Now although I would agree that some fault may lie in possible inaccuracies of the original drawing, but it may not be that in all cases. To achieve complete alignment, I would have to make the particular turnout side as a partial and align it to the drawing, but this would mean it is not a standard turnout, is this a good or bad idea? Now if I am not mistaken, I believe most, if not all, switch chairs types are made to a standard (not withstanding individual company manufacturing), and can be used for all switches? Thus for a longer turnout, more of appropriate chairs would be used, and the radius of the turnout would be more gradual. This brings me to a further question, are ...
... Templot2 change log posted: 23 May 2011 15:53 from: Martin Wynne Templot2 Summary of the main changes in Templot since version 091c of February 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 ...
... with the user specifying the two gauges, and I am sure would be useful to many users in the larger scales. We also have a large 5/7.25" gauge track. By ignoring the straight road the original request would also be met. What do you think? Hi Peter, Thanks for your thoughts. Templot has always been able to create mixed-gauge pointwork. See for example the sample mixed-gauge crossover here: topic 289 The .box file can be downloaded to see how it is made up from partial templates. Here is a copy of the download link: http://templot.com/samples/p4_gwr_mixed_gauge.box If you are asking for an automated function to create mixed-gauge pointwork, that would be a massive programming task, there are so many variables. The starting point in Templot is always the prototype, usually where there is mixed standard-gauge and narrow-gauge. I don't know how that would work for say mixed Gauge 0/ Gauge 1 -- what would be the model scale? What would the ...
... topic: 1847 Sketchboard& partial templates posted: 26 Feb 2012 13:17 from: stuart1600 I've searched to see if this "problem" has already been noted, or if indeed it is a problem and not just me being stupid; but I couldn't find any previous posts. Sketchboard seems to have a problem with partial templates. I discovered this whilst playing around producing a complex scissors crossing and double slips.... To be sure it wasn't just me, I went back to a box file uploaded by Raymond Walley for a scissors crossover (double junction 6) and hit the sketchboard button. The attached .sk9 file is the result. Almost all the templates are partial ones and sketchboard obviously can't "see" them. Is this a flaw or am I doing something wrong? Regards, Stuart Attachment: attach_1370_1847_sketch_doublejunc tion6.sk9 192 posted: 26 Feb 2012 13:30 from: Martin Wynne stuart1600 wrote: Is this a flaw or am I doing something wrong? Hi Stuart, It's by design. Diagram-mode output fills colour between ...
... mention on here. So either the demand wasn't really there, or I got them just right first time -- which is difficult to believe. Believe it- they just work. Like anything that just works you never hear about it- you only hear when things go wrong! I've used them loads of times. My recent screenshot of a short angle diamond was actually irregular, and a slightly less recent screenshot of Yatton was absolutely stuffed with them- I wouldn't even have bothered drawing that up if I had to use partial templates. The resounding silence is a sign that you've got it spot-on first time. The same goes for several of the other new features -- platforms, gaunt turnouts, wrapping a picture shape along the control template, foot lines on FB templates, the dummy vehicle tool. I'll admit to not really using any of the above. There was nowhere near the clamour that irregular diamonds had for any of them, as far as I could tell. To my mind, a lot of these are not part ...
... to the South West of signal box 4 located on the old Midland Railway side of the station. The formation is made up of exit roads from platforms 5& 6, plus exit roads from the old Fish Siddings( I posted a JPEG photograph of this area a few weeks ago, however, do NOT use the photo as background as it is quite distorted due to whatever reason). After several aborted attempts, mainly due to my lack of knowledge and understanding of Templot, and also trying to overlay templates on the partial plan area in some sort of sequence, I eventually came to the conclusion that a new tack was required. I then decided to overlay simple plain track templates on to the plan, putting them as close as possible to the plan roads. Doing this gave me three distinct advantages; 1. Was that I had better defined and finer track lines to follow when placing and manipulating the required templates. 2. I could remove the distraction of the cluttered plan from the background, and in doing so help to speed up ...
... May 2011 22:09 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin I have to say I like what I've seen so far- thanks for letting us have a look at this. The irregular diamond feature just works! Firstly, I tried option 3 above and it was pretty obvious if the wrong intersection point was chosen, so that was easy enough to understand. The end result was an irregular diamond at the intersection of two lengths of curved track. Then I loaded a copy of a "live" trackplan and removed all the partial templates of an existing irregular diamond where one of the through roads was on the transition area of a S-curve so option 1 wouldn't work. Once the Ctrl-0 point was established, I quickly realised that the best way to proceed (I think!) was to zoom right in to the K crossing and use F10 to adjust that so it lined up with the underlying plain track templates, then pan over to the V crossing and use F9 to adjust that in the same way. The process was really ...
... topic: 2425 Help with station approach posted: 16 Mar 2014 22:01 from: PeterD Following on from Martin's great help with my 3-way query, I have now taken the plunge with partial templates etc. I dreaded doing this but having seen some great solutions possible I realised it was about time to give it a try. I wanted to get some better flow through the point work and get away from just connecting turnouts end to end. I have attached a box file containing the station approach tracks. Try as I may, I have an alignment problem between the Down Main and the crossing over the branch track. I have spent the day on this so far but could not correct it. Can anyone help me here please? Now for the Sketchboard issue- Since making partial templates, the sketchboard seems not to recognise all the track work. I have not included this file as it can easily be reproduced from the .box file. Can anyone help me with this too? Many thanks Peter Attachment: attach_1783_2425_Station_approach _2014_03_10_2255_33.box 263 posted ...
... could not find a way of using these- if there is already a description for this type of application, please excuse me but it would be good to have the thread pointed out. Without any other guidance, I thought I would use the out of date instructions for a tandem turnout. This is pre Templot 2 but I managed to find the items in the new menu. I set up Turnouts 1 and 2 without any problem and they line up nicely. The problem seems to be with Turnout 3 which provides the partial template for the centre crossing. It seems to be misaligned but I cannot figure out how to correct it. Any help would be gratefully received. I have attached the box file to this post. Many thanks Peter Attachment: attach_2188_2809_group_2015_12_13 _2204_02_3_way.box 319 posted: 14 Dec 2015 13:57 from: John Palmer Here's my attempt. Once I have the 'middle' crossing located on the FP, my usual approach is to size it with F9 until I arrive at a value ending in .0 or .5- this reflects the fact ...
... topic: 706 Partial templates posted: 20 Jan 2009 21:57 from: George Ray After using this magnificent programme to produce the templates for my model of Horsted Keynes pre1913 I have been asked to produce some templates for the Andover Model Engineering Society of which I am a member. I am trying to develope a dual gauge turnout for the 5" and 7 1/4" gauge ground level track. I have succeding in producing many of the partial templates after viewing the dual gauge example but I am having trouble in discovering how to produce the short templates at the crossings. For example how is the template labelled BG outer- c which appears to contain a wing rail produced. I have tried to find the instructions but the size of the forum is getting so large I am not sure where to look to find what I need. One slight puzzle is that there is a template in the storage box for the curved crossover that says it is for templot 078e and later but doesn't actually appear to be used is this part of the ...
... topic: 1200 How do I move name labels of partial templates which will not highlight posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:18 from: Brian Nicholls Hi All, I am in the middle of plotting templates for a complex formation, what is irritating is I cannot seem to be able to move the name labels of partial templates, as these are cluttering up areas where I need to do some fine work. I cannot highlight them other than using the particular number selection in the storage box, however, when I try to do something outside the storage box on the pad, the highlighting disappears. Can anyone please advise me how to deal with this annoying problem. Best regards. Brian Nicholls. posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:23 from: Alan McMillan Hi Brian All you need do is go to Pad Hide Name Labels or press the End key and they will all disappear. Alan McMillan posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:36 from: Brian Nicholls Alan McMillan wrote: Hi Brian All you need do is go to Pad>Hide ...
... , you wrote: I'm all sorted... now happily using make-on-click mode Which surprised me, because "happy" and "make-on-click mode" have never before occurred in the same sentence. At least not for me, and not for a lot of other users. But they weren't beginners. And times change -- now that we have the make slip and make tandem functions (and hopefully make outside slip in future and possibly others), the need to work with overlaid partial templates is much reduced. Possibly eliminated for many users. I'm wondering therefore, whether to have "make-on-click mode" as the default? This doesn't prevent anyone switching back to the classic mode if they prefer, and the setting is included in the saved program preferences. Would that make life easier for beginners? And possibly reduce the incidence of duplicate templates which seem to bedevil some users. It would need a bit of tweaking. The store toolbutton needs to be removed in "make-on- ...
... topic: 465 Curved Scissors Crossover posted: 20 Jun 2008 16:50 from: phileakins Hi Folks I've been playing around with the layout design and though that a scissors crossover would be useful. As nothing in the design is actually straight- it had to be curved! I have found a photo of a prototype so I haven't completely made it all up. Thanks to Paul's outside slip .box file (thanks Paul) I worked out how partial templates worked, and here it is for your comments and, more importantly, criticisms. My main difficulty now is that I can't see how to provide the proper check rails for the lower left 'V' crossing on the opposite rail, the V of the left side of the diamond crossing is too close. Cheers. Phil Attachment: attach_286_465_scissors_crossover _08_06_20_1128_19.box 743 posted: 20 Jun 2008 18:28 from: Jim Guthrie phileakins wrote: Hi Folks My main difficulty now is that I can't see how to provide the proper check rails for the lower left 'V' crossing on the opposite rail, the V ...
... topic: 195 Partial Templates posted: 16 Oct 2007 20:37 from: Edward I need to decompose any given control template into partial templates in order to construct a dual gauge trackplan. Can anyone point me to the magic incantation necessary to perform this action? In Martin's email about mixed gauge trackwork on 2/11/05 he mentions "rails are removed and restored via the REAL> RAILS> settings"- I presume this is what I'm looking for. However in my 0.91 version I cannot track that function down Many thanks Edward posted: 16 Oct 2007 22:47 from: Martin Wynne Edward wrote: I need to decompose any given control template into partial templates in order to construct a dual gauge trackplan. Can anyone point me to the magic incantation necessary to perform this action? In Martin's email about mixed gauge trackwork on 2/11/05 he mentions "rails are removed and restored via the REAL> RAILS> settings"- I presume this is what I'm looking for. However in my 0.91 version I cannot track ...
... layout (or point to where I missed it!) many thanks Richard Last edited on 13 Sep 2017 12:24 by Richard_Jones posted: 13 Sep 2017 19:59 from: Andrew Duncan Richard I'm sorry to hear that you're not making the progress that you'd have liked but when you last updated Singleton you'd been drawn down the 7mm path which I'm sure is a fascinating alternative to 4mm, it would be great to see any progress there? I popped down the garden earlier to take a couple pictures that may at least partially answer your question. The layout is hung off Spur shelving brackets screwed to the walls, so that there are no legs to get in the way and take up precious space in my shed. The brackets support a bed of 18mm ply cut approximately 2' (600mm) deep (from back to front) that goes all around the perimeter of the shed with a lifting flap at the door. On top of this shelf the various layout baseboards (between 3'6"& 5'0" long) sit approximately 3.5" ( ...
... very much appreciate any assistance in "cleaning up" the result as with my limited templot knowledge I cannot find a way eliminating just one rail on a template. This is necessary around the crossing areas. Cheers Phil Attachment: attach_549_819_Outside_Slip_P4.box 381 posted: 17 May 2009 17:27 from: Martin Wynne philchudley wrote: I cannot find a way of eliminating just one rail on a template. This is necessary around the crossing areas. Hi Phil, See this message, which includes a bit of Jing video showing how to make partial templates and create a gap in a rail: message 3967 regards, Martin. posted: 17 May 2009 17:50 from: Stephen Freeman Here is outside single slip in P4, may not be perfect but it was good enough to get the job done as you can see elsewhere on the Forum. Martin Wynne wrote: philchudley wrote: I cannot find a way of eliminating just one rail on a template. This is necessary around the crossing areas. Hi Phil, See this message, which includes a bit of ...
... Please could you give some pointers on the steps that I should be following to get this type of turnout produced. Many thanks in anticipation, Steve Attachment: attach_1745_2399_GoGF_O165-DualGaugeTurnout001.box 261 posted: 8 Feb 2014 21:35 from: Martin Wynne Hi Steve, Mixed-gauge track comes in a multitude of different designs, so there isn't really a set procedure which will work in every case. To get a feeling for what is involved, you might like to download this sample file: topic 289 and look at all the partial templates. Note that this is a crossover without side-swapping, so not much use for passenger trains between platforms. Adding a side-swap complicates it even further -- an interesting exercise for the reader. I will write again with some suggestions soon. regards, Martin. posted: 8 Feb 2014 22:44 from: Steve Bedding Martin Many thanks for your quick response- I've had a quick look at the recommended file and can start to see the logic in which is comes together. I just need ...
18. 3-way Handling
... avoiding the need to do a lot of timber shoving. The same trick can be used on a branch track, but in that case you must do it yourself, Templot doesn't do it for you. Rolling rails is CTRL+ F4 mouse action -- it works only for plain track, so you may need to split turnout templates first. It's useful if you have pegged a branch track onto the TMINP position -- in which case you don't want the rolled-in sleepers.) Correct. Formations comprised of multiple partial templates, such as a 3-way tandem turnout, do not show on the sketchboard in diagram mode. They do show in detail mode. For a neat result in diagram mode, you can temporarily overlay plain track templates, which can be kept as unused templates in the storage box until needed. It's all been explained here several times, I can't re-write everything in every reply. I know it's frustrating that the Companion is so incomplete and that 20 years of ad-hoc web site updates have resulted ...
... : 3499 output elements- new settings and print preview posted: 10 Sep 2019 20:51 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin, I seem to be finding my way back to Templot again! There's a couple of features that would be quite nice to have, if they're not already there somewhere:- When printing the background templates, any platforms with a solid infill obliterate any text, such as timber numbering or "blunt nose" etc. Could it be arranged so that the platform is always underneath any text? Hatching partially solves this, but even so, the text then becomes chopped up. The other one, which I'm sure is an option somewhere, is to not show the template number on the output, so just "A11" instead of "PL172.A11". Cheers, Paul Last edited on 10 Sep 2019 20:51 by Paul Boyd posted: 12 Sep 2019 19:08 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: Hi Martin, I seem to be finding my way back to Templot again! There's a couple of features ...
... . 5. if you want both rail edges but without the solid coloured infill, select the print> printed drawing options> rail infill style> menu options. n.b. As an alternative to removing items above, for printing you can use the trick of changing their colour to white. Removing the transition markers only, came up recently: topic 1419 regards, Martin. posted: 4 Apr 2011 04:14 from: Martin Wynne p.s. Mark, That's a very impressive wiring plan with a lot of work creating coloured partial templates. Had you done so initially, you could have removed all the track centre-lines and switch drive marks by de-selecting them in the geometry menu. Unlike the changes in my previous message these changes are saved in the .box file. That will be tedious to do now that the plan is split into so many partial templates -- it means deleting each template one at a time to the control template, making the changes, and then storing again. In the process you will lose the colours and ...
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