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... topic: 141 Add a .box file reference when printing posted: 25 Aug 2007 10:52 from: Peter Salathiel Hi Martin, I admit I am not a methodical worker but I just can't figure out the best way to keep my Templot .box files. My problem is that I "name" a printout, so that I know where it came from, but then forget to change it on the next printing. The only way that I can keep track of things is to move my "project name" AFTER the Templot time stamp. In other words all my Templot .box files are now identifed, and arranged in order chronoogically. A couple of questions: 1) What is the recommended method of keeping track of printouts and their associated .box files. I think I know the answer but it is all to easy to click "print" and finish up with the wrong name. 2) Any chance of making the default printout name the time stamp of the file? I admit that this problem occurs because I am using Templot ( ...
... topic: 1044 Print Alignment Problems posted: 9 Feb 2010 22:40 from: David Hiya Guys Been reading through forum for similar problem and could only find Possible Printer Calibration issues. I am fairly condident that my Printer is Calibrated ok, yet I am having fairly big discrepancies over 3 A4 sheets joined together in Landscape origination. During printer configuration the outer box of the printout measures 180mm x 240mm, yet when the proof sheet is printed out the horizontal bar measures 150mm, but the vertical bar only measures 249.5mm, instead of the 250mm expected. The Roller Factor is 100% and the Head Factor is 100%. On printout of a few sheets of A4 paper to join together, the grid spacings seem really good at 50mm(they had been 52mm), yet on a staggered A4 paper layout, when jointing together, the placing of an A4 sheet centred on the joint of 2 A4 sheets below, show the sheet out of alignment by 1mm at either end of the sheet. The only reason I would question this, is ...
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... not jumping through so many. I have spent 20 minutes getting this to work before finding out that someone has somehow altered my printer settings even though the LCD on the printer says everything was letter size. I still did not get a perfect alignment. The Inner box was off by 1 mm in each direction. I put in the actual measurements. Now the shaded cross dimensions are 1 mm too big in each direction. It appears to be unfixable. How do I print the current template showing on the monitor. The printout is a tiny box in the upper left hand corner and not the full-sized sheet I expected. 2. Menus All Windows programs I use have an Edit tool button with an undo option in it. I had to look around for yours. It is buried way down in the adjust option. Windows tool bars have File, Edit, View, Tools, etc. Why invent a whole new pattern? 3. I clicked the "Click-drag zoon rectangle" and the template immediately got squashed together at ...
... topic: 2038 Disappearing sleeper/chair numbers on printout. posted: 3 Aug 2012 17:10 from: Jerry My attempts today to reprint a crossover comprised of 4 templates seem to have lost some of their timber/chair numbering. I tried reprinting the whole trackplan with the same result. After I had completed my plan I printed a whole set of A3 pages on 07/05/2012 according to Martin's printout dating scheme. I kept those as masters. The numbering is as expected. Is this me or has something happened in the updating. Any ideas welcome. Jerry posted: 3 Aug 2012 18:19 from: Martin Wynne Hi Jerry, Is it just the timber numbers (text) which are missing, or some parts of the actual template(s )? Are they all missing, or only some? If only some, are all the missing ones on the same template? Are you using the same computer and same printer as last time? Are you using the same printer page size, printer resolution and settings ...
... topic: 1420 Comparison of N and 2mm Fine Scale gauges printout posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:07 from: kenbec I have decided to use code 40 track but haven't yet decided whether to use the N or 2mmFS gauge width for the standard track. As a test to allow me to create test straight track in both gauges I created a simple 500mm length drawing in N for UK gauge and printed it. I then changed to 2mmFS gauge using the gauge/scale selector and printed it. In both cases the Information Panel showed the correct gauge of 9mm and 9.42mm respectively. The printouts were identical. Does this mean that changing the gauge is not possible after a track template has been created? I thought from other reading that a change as simple as this was possible. Is the only way I can get a printout of a 2mm 9.42mm gauge straight by creating it as an original? This is not a problem with the turnouts I have designed as I intend to still use the 9mm standard in their case. Regards, ken PS ...
... , I tried printing the drawing just to see what it looked like and although the quality was perfect, the printer didn't seem to print it all. Is it better to export to pdf for printing? What did you ask Templot to print? If you used the print now option there are three choices, print just the control template (the black and grey one) or print all the background templates (the blue ones) or print group (only available if a group is selected. These options will produce an uncalibrated printout whose accuracy is not guaranteed. For a more accurate printout use the Output option, which is far more flexible, but you must set up the printer at the bottom of this menu first. It does not need to be converted to a PDF unless you are going to have it commercially printed. Regards Tony. Last edited on 16 Oct 2017 13:29 by Tony W posted: 16 Oct 2017 12:30 from: Martin Wynne Tony McGartland wrote: Martin, going through your tutorial video at moment. When ...
... topic: 3666 Double Slip- switch blade on printout posted: 13 May 2020 08:54 from: Alan Kettlewell Hello, Having made about a dozen 0-EM turnouts now for my layout it's time to have a go at my first double slip. I was wondering how to arrange the printout so the outer switch blades show correctly inside the stock rail. 2165_130354_110000000.png Grateful for advice on this. Cheers Alan posted: 13 May 2020 08:55 from: Alan Kettlewell er.. that should read 0-MF! posted: 13 May 2020 11:27 from: Martin Wynne Hi Alan, Fix them all with one click: 2_130624_480000000.png If you do any further work on the slips, shoving timbers etc., you will need to do it again. So this is one of those jobs which you leave to last. cheers, Martin. posted: 13 May 2020 11:38 from: Alan Kettlewell Brilliant, sorted. Many thanks indeed. As the blades on these are quite short, is it necessary to make them hinged ...
... topic: 1421 Templot Crash posted: 18 Mar 2011 00:51 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, I was just about to post a message asking about CPU usage while using Templot. Sometimes whilst running the program the CPU load increases by a large amount, as in :- 2001_171937_140000000.png The PC is a dual core 3.2Ghz P4 with 4GB ram running XP. Sometimes the system fan speed ramps up as an indicator that the CPU is getting hotter when performing certain tasks such as preparing a printout. I noticed tonight that if you leave the program in certain menus/dialogue boxes such as editing sleepering data or shoving timbers it also puts a heavy load on the CPU. A little later I managed to get this message :- 2001_171944_160000000.png closely followed by :- 2001_171945_500000000.png I only had the single track item on the go with no background images or anything like that. I had been playing around with rail lengths trying to figure out how to get 30' track panels with 12" joint sleepers and 10" for the rest of the panel( ...
... : 8 Aug 2010 20:42 from: grog_polymer Thanks Martin and Brian The co;our laser printers at work could well see a bit of extra curricular activity today. I will be ptinting out the companion stuff and the large tutorial. Luckily we have a binding machine too. Regards, Greg posted: 10 Aug 2010 06:22 from: kenbec Brian, Thanks! I have attached a PDF doc which may help with the PEG understanding, it was something I cooked up when I had the same problem. A printout of this now sits beside my computer because it is, for me, the clearest explanation I have seen. Although I do understand the PEG concept, I have not been able to memorise the locations, this PDF printout makes it so easy. Once again thank you very much for sharing. Regards, Ken posted: 10 Aug 2010 07:49 from: Martin Wynne Kenneth Beckett wrote: Although I do understand the PEG concept, I have not been able to memorise the locations, this PDF printout makes it so ...
... topic: 1788 Function Key printout posted: 15 Jan 2012 12:13 from: Les G I have just printed out a fresh copy of the Function key table [from help] and note that the version obtained is shown as v0.96. The F10 still shows as swell, not a big deal, as I am aware that the Swell shortcut is Ctrl- F10 in TDV. I note that F10 now relates to K crossings, but wonder if there are any other key chart changes that I might have missed. regards Les G posted: 15 Jan 2012 12:56 from: Martin Wynne Hi Les, See: topic 1124 A recent further change is CTRL+\ (backslash) which now resets the notch at the grid origin. I have used this so often recently that I can't understand why I didn't give it a shortcut years ago. Thanks to Gordon S for the suggestion. Updating the F key chart and the full shortcuts list are on my list of things to do before TDV becomes Templot2. regards, Martin. posted ...
... page orientation in separate dialogs just seems to me like a superfluous complication for the user and for the programmer. I think it is far more simple and intuitive for the page outline orientation shown in Trackpad to be the orientation for any output. If the user wants to change the orientation for either output, they change the way it is displayed first. Mark C posted: 18 Jul 2012 06:26 from: Mark C Martin, In Templot2, the page outlines are different sizes for Printer and PDF. Obviously, a printout of the outputed PDF file doesn't match the page sent directly to the printer. Thus, I can see why you can't have a universal page settings as the program wouldn't know which to display. However, I just did an experiment with Microsoft Publisher, another graphics program. In that program, you set paper size and margins in a universal Page Setup dialog. Then you have a choice to either Print to printer or export to PDF. I did both with a drawing I had created some time ago that fills the ...
... . regards, Martin. posted: 3 May 2011 13:13 from: Brian Nicholls Martin Wynne wrote: Yes, printer permitting. But please read the? help notes first: Hi Martin, Many thanks for the very prompt response. That answers the question nicely thank you, and makes it very clear to me. It also helps me to be able to re-draw accurately where track side objects will actually be placed (bearing in mind scale clearances etc.), once I have re-scanned the Templot printout into a file format and then use a drawing package to add the items to the file. Many thanks again Martin. All the best, Brian Nicholls. posted: 3 May 2011 20:53 from: Paul Boyd Hi Rob Another reason I've found for background images printing in solid black, irrespective of transparency settings, is that I have Templot set to "black& white only" instead of "grey shade printing". In my case this happens because my default printer is a laser printer so Templot start in ...
... topic: 2444 Print page origin posted: 18 Apr 2014 12:47 from: John Walker Yesterday I printed part of my track plan. Today I want to print a bit more but can't remember the page origin I used. It would be useful if Templot included the page origin on printouts. posted: 18 Apr 2014 15:31 from: Paul Boyd Can I stick my hand for this as well, please? At the moment I try to remember to make a note of where the origin was set and scribble it on a printout somewhere. Cheers posted: 19 Apr 2014 23:13 from: Martin Wynne Hi John, Paul, Many thanks for that suggestion. I will add a note of the page origin dimensions on the template page prints. The page origin is already shown on the printed page map: 2_221933_500000000.png Note that the page origin is already included in your program preferences between sessions. This doesn't help for old templates of course, a note on the actual template makes sense. See: topic 370- message 14573 ...
... topic: 1359 Background Picture Printing posted: 6 Feb 2011 17:33 from: John McCrea Hi Martin Just a quick question; more an observation really. As I've nearly completed my (Masokits based) turnouts for my new layout I decided to create a full size printout of the plan on banner paper. I've found a firm that will print my 156" x 36" plan full size at £16 for the first and £12 for subsequent pages so I proceeded to print to PDF from Templot v0.91c, initially using the Adobe PDF driver, then the free version of Win2PDF. The templates print fine in either program but the background scan will not print if 'Stretch' is selected. If I print using 'Dots' I get a PDF with the background showing but it is so large that neither Adobe Reader or the full version of Acrobat can fully open it. Details are as follows (questions borrowed from another thread): Which version of Windows are you using? XP, SP-3 How much memory do you have on your ...
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... click on the "print page map" button. Regards. Bill Campbell. posted: 16 Feb 2014 19:37 from: Martin Wynne bainin wrote: Is there (or could there) be a way to print a page "key" for a track plan... just to make it a bit easier to assemble all the pages for a plan? Hi Mike, As Bill explained, what you are looking for is the print page map button on the print preview dialog: 2_161431_150000000.png You get a single page printout like this: 2_161431_560000000.png It's a bit scruffy, but serves the purpose of identifying which printed page goes where. Sorry, it's not available for the PDF output. regards, Martin. posted: 17 Feb 2014 17:30 from: bainin Thanks Martin and Bill... just what I wanted. Regards, Mike Martin Wynne wrote: bainin wrote: Is there (or could there) be a way to print a page "key" for a track plan... just to make it a bit easier ...
... ?!?! posted: 22 Dec 2010 13:36 from: BruceNordstrand Seeking help and hoping I haven't stuffed things up.... I was working on shoving timbers and forgot to Store and Background before deleting the next turnout to control. Thinking I could use the undo feature I clicked it and the second turnout disappeared and the original reappeared. How do I get then *both* back? To replace the deleted one I will have to totally redo a couple of tracks and that will void the full size printout I just paid for for the second time. HELP PLEASE! posted: 22 Dec 2010 14:15 from: Martin Wynne BruceNordstrand wrote: I was working on shoving timbers and forgot to Store and Background before deleting the next turnout to control. Thinking I could use the undo feature I clicked it and the second turnout disappeared and the original reappeared. How do I get then *both* back? To replace the deleted one I will have to totally redo a couple of tracks and that will void the full size ...
... ordered a small quantity of nickel silver 75 bullhead rail and copper clad sleepers from C&L. posted: 4 Feb 2013 15:13 from: wcampbell23 Hi Mike Could you not be persuaded to use ply sleepers and timbering together with plastic chairs? They do look so much better than soldered rail on to copperclad. Have a look at the presentation on C+ L's website in which Nigel Burkin demonstrates constructing one of their timbertracks turnouts- you don't need the laser cut timber template- just glue ply timbers on your Templot printout. Regards. posted: 4 Feb 2013 16:14 from: CoBo wcampbell23 wrote: Hi Mike Could you not be persuaded to use ply sleepers and timbering together with plastic chairs? They do look so much better than soldered rail on to copperclad. Have a look at the presentation on C+ L's website in which Nigel Burkin demonstrates constructing one of their timbertracks turnouts- you don't need the laser cut timber template- just glue ply timbers on your Templot printout. Regards. Fiddling with glue and little bits of plastic ...
... rail length of 15ft for crossings of angle 1 in 7 to 1 in 8, and another example is, 13ft for crossings of 1 in 4 to 1 in 5. Now this finite tongue rail length means, that there is another joint in that rail before the Vee crossing wing rail joint, making two joints in all between the tip of the tongue and the tip of the Vee wing rail, again this is not a feature in Templot. At the moment, I can hand mark these extra joints on the template printouts, but it would be nice to have them properly generated in Templot. Thanks again Martin for the answers to my query. All the best, Brian Nicholls. posted: 17 Nov 2011 01:03 from: Martin Wynne Brian Nicholls wrote: Now this finite tongue rail length means, that there is another joint in that rail before the Vee crossing wing rail joint, making two joints in all between the tip of the tongue and the tip of the Vee wing rail, again this is not a feature in Templot ...
... topic: 1349 Printing a single slip template posted: 22 Jan 2011 04:17 from: roger counsell I have successfully followed the video on how to get a single slip template, but I cannot figure out how to get a printout for a template to construct it. I cannot get the complete template into the current control template, only one section at a time. Hope you can help. Roger Counsell posted: 22 Jan 2011 04:53 from: Martin Wynne roger counsell wrote: I have successfully followed the video on how to get a single slip template, but I cannot figure out how to get a printout for a template to construct it. Hi Roger, Welcome to Templot Club. There are two ways to do this. 1. Click the print> print entire pad menu item. I agree that the wording there isn't as clear as it might be. In the next Pug it will be changed to print background templates (trackplan). Then on the print dialog which appears select the pages which contain the slip by ...
... , say TL501. Is there an upper limit on the numbers? Hi Richard, There is no upper limit on the ID numbers, but if it is below 100 it will always be displayed as 3 figures, as 007 for example. If you do a lot of editing on a large track plan the numbers could get quite big quite quickly. I don't want to re-use vacant numbers because you may have existing printed templates using that number. Big numbers don't matter in principle, but would tend to clutter the printouts. That's why there is an option to regenerate all the ID numbers from scratch if they get out of hand. Of course, you may have a track plan with more than 999 templates? regards, Martin. posted: 1 May 2013 22:56 from: Ian Allen An excellent update Martin. That will be very, very useful. Ian posted: 1 May 2013 23:40 from: David Yates Hi Martin, I concur with everyone else's views on this latest update, which I consider to be a ...
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