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... topic: 3045 Printing the cess in B&W posted: 14 Jul 2017 21:50 from: Richard Spratt when Printing the cess is b&w on a template that overlaps another, part of the overlapped template is not printed. When in colour the cess doesn't hide the overlapped template as you'd expect. Attachment: attach_2465_3045_image.jpg 234 posted: 14 Jul 2017 21:52 from: Richard Spratt Now the b&w printout, using templot's b&w settings. Attachment: attach_2466_3045_image.jpg 264 posted: 14 Jul 2017 23:32 from: Trevor Walling Hello, I would think it is still a usable template in colour or black and white. The cess would not extend into the area to which you refer anyway. The timber and rail positions of relevance are still usable despite the blank area. There will probably be some technical reason Martin has ignored it possibly? posted: 15 Jul 2017 01:15 from: Martin Wynne Hi Richard, Firstly of course it makes no sense for the cess to overlap adjacent templates. I am currently ...
... that the background shapes functions include an option to add a target mark, which is intended for the sort of purpose you are asking about. Sorry if I haven't understood your question, I will look at adding the grid lines proper to both the pages preview and the printed page map. regards, Martin. posted: 3 Nov 2015 12:29 from: Martin Wynne p.s. Gordon, Don't overlook the option of adding a bit of dummy track as a marker. Just because an odd bit of track appears on the printout doesn't mean you have to build it. The advantage is that you have all the functions to curve and align it, peg it onto other templates, or onto the grid (via the notch), etc. Martin. posted: 3 Nov 2015 15:19 from: Gordon S Thanks Martin. My latest layout plan is basically several parallel loops with a reverse curve allowing trains to run from a terminus out and back. This corner is where I'm working. The outer single lines are the return loop and are ...
... excuse though, I really must learn how to use Templot properly. Cheers Andy posted: 27 Jul 2016 07:02 from: BigAndy Hi Martin, I know it's been a while since the last contact, but I've been in and out of hospital for most of this year, thankfully on the mend now. I just wondered if you had managed to get round to re-working the trackplan at all? I'm aiming to be getting back to some serious modelling at last and will be at the stage of needing a printout in the not too distant future. Many thanks Andy posted: 28 Jul 2016 11:36 from: Martin Wynne Hi Andy, Sorry to hear you have been ill, I hope you are feeling better soon. I too need hospitalisation -- for a new brain. Nowadays I keep getting side-tracked and forgetting things. I made a start on adding the double-curved vertical FB switches to Templot, but something else came up, and now I've forgotten where I got to. But I must get on ...
... all is well. Another solution of course is to find a USB cable and connect it directly to the computer. This works every time. cheers, Martin. posted: 21 Nov 2018 16:09 from: John Palmer Thanks, Martin. Thinking it might be some transient problem affecting all programs, I decided to do a test print from the Acrobat reader after the problem manifested itself in Templot. Thought I had managed to specify printing of a single page, but obviously didn't and as a result ended up with a printout of the whole of the report on the Paragon accident! Anyway, that seems to confirm that other software is finding the networked printers without difficulty. Sadly, restarting Templot doesn't cure the problem, as it still seems unable to find any printer drivers- not even the virtual printer driver used to 'print' i.e. create a pdf document file. I'll bear in mind direct USB connection as a possible solution of last resort, but as yet haven't found the energy to lug the printer across the room for this purpose. ...
... 17:37 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin Thanks for that! I've been lurking, but drifted into plastic modelling, with model railways in the background. I've just been inspired to restart the S4n2 layout I started about 16 years ago then scrapped during a house move, although I kept the pointwork. The fact that the seed has remained there all this time has to be a good sign! The re-worked output elements options will do nicely, thank you. Yes, timber numbering is untidy on the track plan printout, and platforms are unnecessary on build templates, so that does make it much easier to switch around. Cheers, Paul posted: 13 Sep 2019 19:02 from: Hull Paragon Martin I read this with interest. I have been looking for a way to remove text from templates so that after they have been physically cut, there is no spurious text on the template. I suspect that this option is what I have been looking for but I note that this is (I assume) a modification that is only ...
... topic: 3493 Dot Matrix printers !! posted: 24 Aug 2019 20:11 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Is it your opinion that a wide carriage dot matrix printer is still fine for use on Templot printouts? It is a long time since I used one at work, does a 24pin head give an advantage in our situation? Met a nice chap this afternoon called Carl who is looking to start using Templot and he has access to a couple of dot matrix printers that take the old tractor fed 14.5 x 11 inch paper. He would be using the output to build track on rather than producing works of art so just basic quality should be fine. Thanks Rob posted: 24 Aug 2019 21:04 from: Martin Wynne Hi Rob, Templot began life driving a dot-matrix printer. It's a long time since I tried one, but all the code is still in there. Just select impact printer in the printer calibration dialog. Templot then makes a few changes to the output, such as removing all solid area ...
... rail, and that is what you currently get. I think most folks would want the same. regards, Martin. posted: 25 Jan 2016 23:33 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: Just printed out a template and it does what I want it to do. A dotted line at 35mm and the trackbed edges at 90mm Hi Gordon, Instead of a thin dotted line, you may like to try using the platforms function to represent retaining walls, say 18" wide. You then get a more prominent printout, and you can adjust the position of each end of the wall if you don't want the wall to run the full length of the template. For 35mm spacing to the wall in 4-SF, set the "platform front edge spacing" to 80.7 inches (full-size). Set the "platform width" to 18 inches at both ends. This is the printed result, showing the "platform" retaining wall and the 90mm trackbed edge: 2_251840_580000000.png Notice that this function uses a full settings dialog, ...
... as it expands/ contracts (but we do have to stop it creeping!) and even then I would not go beyond about 500mm without a break in the rail. I wonder if there would be a way to allow the rails to slide through the baseplates- having to fit droppers/ disguise joints etc every foot is a real pain as well as being a potential unreliability. Not sure how all the suggested source of baseplates work though... Just regarding building off templates- have you thought of sticking your Tempot printout straight to the baseboard and building in situ (with no underlay)? It worked for me and also for Jim S-W and Birmingham New Street is quite a test of track building methods- including flat bottom! Good luck, Howard posted: 9 Jul 2013 08:34 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, Thanks for the photo Simon, you could add it to the Gallery, so others can see. I would think that it would be possible to use a baseplate with the rail actually spiked down rather than ...
... 08 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Just been thinking about this while I munched down my steak and lambs liver meal You listed 'printer calibration warning on/off' in your post of last night which I had taken to mean( wrongly I suspect) that you had removed the need to choose the calibration file for the chosen printer on each Templot session therefore omitting the printed warning message. I see now that it is just the warning message that can be supressed on subsequent sessions- sensible given my original remit for pretty printouts. So the question now is can you save the selected printer and calibration file into the .sk1 file to remove the need to step through each of these on every Templot session? If it is a lot of work or not possible please ignore the request. The proper dialogue for the Output Elements is great but I personally would probably not benefit from this kind of upgrade in other areas. I don't print in colour and don't change the colours used on any screen items- others may have a different view but if somebody ...
50. Scaleforum
... very enthusiastic about it, and greatly inspired by the modelling on show. I had several good conversations about the basics of finescale modelling, such as the choice of suspension systems (or not) and the pros and cons of various couplings, among others. I'm expecting to be doing the "Starting in P4" demonstration at Scalefour North in Wakefield next year, so I hope to have the same rewarding experience again. Cheers Paul Willis Scalefour Society Deputy Chairman PS- both Chris Mitton (Society Treasurer) and I had Templot printouts of our prospective projects on our stands, and would happily explain if asked that yes, Templot most definitely is worth the initial learning curve... posted: 28 Sep 2016 08:33 from: Hayfield Paul A good show for the enthusiast which ever gauge they work in, I guess you have an advantage over some shows you can be a little more generous with the things like visitor seating and demonstration stands I think slowly more 4 mm modellers are taking notice of the track element of the hobby, with more ...
... .... allow Wing Rails to have a knuckle bend radius posted: 14 Jan 2017 14:06 from: ChrisBr As I understand it (early) GWR Wing Rails were radiused according to the angle of the crossing as the became the check rail for the crossing nose. It would be nice (assuming I have not missed the capability in the system- I did look first) to be able to select this as an option under "Real, V-Crossing Options" when modelling these examples and for the printout to reflect this option. Regards, Chris posted: 14 Jan 2017 14:55 from: Martin Wynne ChrisBr wrote: As I understand it (early) GWR Wing Rails were radiused according to the angle of the crossing Hi Chris, Not only GWR -- all* knuckle bends are radiused, with the result that the knuckle gap is wider than the flangeway gap. See the "knuckle gap" figures in the table of crossing data at: http://templot.com/martweb/templot_forum.htm 2_050420_590000000.png Some prototypes have ...
52. Lost templates
... files are saved at C:\TEMPLOT_DEV\BOX-FILES\ Did you save them somewhere else? Or maybe that location was not included in your backup set? regards, Martin. posted: 1 Jul 2017 01:11 from: Stan Agar Hi Martin, Thanks for the quick reply. I feared that they hadn't been saved by the stand alone hard drive. I am starting to re-draw things based on a screen capture I have from 2 years ago. The layout has got larger since and all the printouts I had went in the re-cycle so I'm scanning in a new background to draw on. It will be fun fitting in the three turnouts I have already built! It's to cold and wet to be in the garage making baseboards anyway. Regards Stan Agar posted: 1 Jul 2017 01:26 from: Martin Wynne Hi Stan, Sorry to hear you seem to have lost your old files. Just to add that every member can use this Templot Club site for backup of Templot files, see: topic 835 ...
... from the longer O and S scale fret? Did you put glue under the rail or just rely on the spikes to hold it. What did you do when building turnouts? Rob, There's actually a bit more of a story about the track. When I first showed the picture above on another forum I was taken to task about the lack of railplates. So I CNC machined railplates from Plastikard to go under the rail and the track then looked like this. 25_101855_120000000.jpg To lay pointwork I laid the timbers on a Templot printout then positioned every fifth or so railplate on the timbers and stuck them down with Butanone. The rails were then spiked through these railplates and checked for gauge. When all looked well, the other railplates were inserted and glued and the spike holes were drilled and the spikes inserted. Here's a turnout partially constructed. 25_101859_200000000.jpg There's also a difference to UK practice since I'm using self-guarding "frogs", so no check rails. However, I did have to lay my diamond crossing and a tandem turnout with standard crossings ...
... elements dialog: 2_212124_360000000.png At reduced size for display you may find it better to print via the sketchboard in detail mode. Yes it's great to have some sunshine, I have been out walking by the river: 2_212134_520000000.jpg regards, Martin. posted: 22 Mar 2015 20:33 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Great to see your picture. I am a fisherman and dog owner so I seem to spend a lot of time by the water. Thinking more about my question there isn't that much left to leave off the printout after the use of the Printed Elements dialogue. I only print when I intend making track on the templates so it would be for full size constructional use. None of my little plans ever gets big enough to need reducing in size. Hold off on putting any though into this. I will look at the program saved preferences and see if that covers what I need. Regards Rob Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> ...
... 2012 00:16 from: Tony W Compstructor wrote: Thanks Tony for your added info, I shall play with it on Templot over the weekend and see if I can modify my plan. If not I will be back for more assistance. Have good weekend everyone. Kind regards Kev Hi Kev. As I said at the start, it all looks correct to me. In default mode,Templot automatically changes the K crossing from fixed to switched when the crossing angle reaches 1 in 8 as it has done for your printout. You have already gapped your timbers and I wouldn't alter anything. Study the pictures and all should become clear. Construction is your next step. Tony. posted: 1 Sep 2012 00:57 from: Martin Wynne Hi Kev, John Donnelly has just posted an excellent pic of Newcastle Central on the Scalefour web site: http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f =5 &t =2191 At centre left is a curved single slip with movable K-crossings. Note the open switches at the ...
... Furthermore, vector and metafile items are rendered as bitmaps if they have been rotated, or contain any transparency effects. The limits are inversely modified pro rata by changes to the DPI resolution, and by any output scaling. It's all a bit of a minefield, but I will sort it out. regards, Martin. posted: 6 Jun 2013 16:23 from: LSWRArt Hi Martin, Thanks for looking into this, but I am not sure that reducing the resolution is a major problem? I want the large scale printout so that I can visualise the whole station, try some locos and stock on the paper track, put on the station building (which I have already built) and generally get a feel of whether the whole thing is going to look right before building any more track. For this wonky lines do not matter at all. So, as suggested I tried PDF output at 100 dpi and it works fine, but it will output at any higher resolution. One I get down to track building I will only print out ...
... topic: 950 Printin background shapes. posted: 4 Oct 2009 23:18 from: Jamie92208 When doing printouts it would be useful if you could print out the shapes as well as just the pages with track on. I have drawn the baseboard outlines on my bgs file and on one or two of the baseboards the edge come well beyond the area with track. It might be useful to have an option to print the sheets that would contain the shape line, not all the blank sheets. Jamie Guest Last edited on 14 Oct 2009 23:39 by Jamie92208 Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> I wish it would...> Printin background shapes. about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, ...
58. Double Junction
... calibration for tracing paper, and check the printed template against the paper/card templates. regards, Martin. posted: 27 May 2010 11:35 from: kenbec Hello Jim and Martin, Sounds like I am going to have a lot of fun with this one, I am building in N gauge and my old fingers have a bit of trouble with the small size of the track, at least I am using code 80 which helps. One of the problems I find is that my track is flat bottom and the printouts are for code 55 bullhead? or whatever, it makes life a little more interesting when fitting the track to the templates. I am still constructing the first turnout because I ran out of PCB (it sure gobbles it up) and I have to order a considerably larger quantity from a supplier in South Australia so I wanted to get started on designing the double junctions while waiting. Thanks again to you both for the help you so freely offer. Regards, Ken Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable ...
... ( .box file attached below): 2_231927_370000000.png As often with pre-group drawings the dimensions don't quite add up -- the quoted 470ft radius appears to mean the internal geometrical radius of a full turnout, rather than the actual switch radius in the rail. I had to set the switch radius to 441ft-6in (5298") in order to get the quoted heel offset. The timber spacings all worked out to round number inches, with 26" spacings at the rail joints. Here's the full custom switch info printout: Dimensions for LSWR Type 2 Switch: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Dimensions are in FULL-SIZE prototype INCHES, with model conversions at 4.0 mm/ft. Unit angles are RAM. This switch is a SEMI-CURVED pattern switch: straight planing length (along blade)= 92.38( 30.79 model mm) straight planing unit angle 1: 33.59 lead length to heel ( ...
... engine, I'm deprecating the old adjacent tracks function. This will be available in future only via the program panel program menu, and if selected will replace the above functions in the generator. You can't have both at once. I have also been working this week on the Sketchbook feature. After much head scratching I have finally beaten the Windows metafile functions into submission. The base track plan can now be inserted either in raster format (bitmap) or in vector format (metafile). The latter provides much improved zooming and printout. It also provides an EMF file in passing, which can be opened in most photo editor programs, and then re-saved in GIF or PNG format (or JPG if you must). This means I no longer need to provide a separate raster image output in these formats, which has saved quite a bit of work. regards, Martin. posted: 4 Jul 2010 18:48 from: Brian Nicholls Martin Wynne wrote: I thought I would start a topic where I can report occasionally about what I'm ...
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