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... would not be able to simulate even to a simplistic extent a train running across the new Templot trackwork (including all its switching possibilities). This is a mode that our users exploit to investigate the operability of an entire layout before committing to buy/build. Now the internals from an operating point of view only matter from a XTrackCAD pov, and for the the internal look of the track work Templot is the master so we can assume that we have some adapted form of drawing tool that can draw over a graphic and produce a set of what are called track segments and paths in XTrackCAD in a (complex) compound turnout. We can then draw the imported graphic rather than the track segments but have the train mode move the cars over the (hidden) paths and segments. My limited understanding of Templot is that your equivalent of end points would be to establish "pegs" on import from XTrackCAD that would be correctly positioned wrt to the graphics from DXF for the centers of connected track and but I don't know about angle (a second ...
... TT-Intermediate standard. I have just looked on your web site, and I can't see any track components for 3mm scale. Plastic chairs are available from the 3mm Society, see: http://www.ncb.ndo.co.uk/rail/3mm/Getting_started/trackmaking/index.html but they may not clear his RTR wheel flanges. Copper-clad may be his only option. regards, Martin. posted: 23 Nov 2009 19:16 from: Donald MacLean Problem is- nothing commercially available for 3mm RTR. 3MM society and 3MSR produce chairs and track sleeper sections which still means using TemPlot or something to generate template design- with or without solder techniques. PECO produces exceedingly limited HOm track components which, while compatible, have totally wrong sleeper spacing for 3mm. (Although their double slip is acceptable!) While agreeing that finescale is the way to go, that view in the rear view mirror is receding rapidly! Donald. posted: 23 Nov 2009 19:36 from: Donald MacLean Thanks Martin I have just done that in basswood and I feel ...
63. Peg options
... topic: 785 Peg options posted: 11 Apr 2009 14:37 from: clockwork One thing which I would find really useful would be the ability to switch OFF the snap feature for the entire workspace like in AutoCAD, Rhino, etc. This would allow you to line things up roughly by eye and produce a quick sketch plan to test an idea before producing a propper plan. Jonathan. Last edited on 11 Apr 2009 14:37 by clockwork posted: 11 Apr 2009 14:50 from: Martin Wynne clockwork wrote: One thing which I would find really useful would be the ability to switch OFF the snap feature for the entire workspace like in AutoCAD, Rhino, etc. This would allow you to line things up roughly by eye and produce a quick sketch plan to test an idea before producing a propper plan. Hi Jonathan, Untick the action> F7 snap options> snap on background templates menu option. You can also hold down the SHIFT key while doing F7 to prevent snapping. More information about F7 snapping at: http ...
64. A new trolley
... ) attractive engines both. Well another loose heel switch calls before bed I think. Hope to have a bit more to report tomorrow. Thanks again for telling me a bit of your modelling background. Kind regards Andrew posted: 4 Nov 2018 21:57 from: Rob Manchester Hello Andrew, Wow, anybody with the skills to build the Malcolm Mitchell kits should get a medal You have my respect. I tend to stick to converted RTR locos although I like to build rolling stock from kits. The Toy Fair today didn't produce a 72XX- the green ones are in short supply. I did buy a Bachmann 2251 which looks nice in green even though people seem to complain about the mould line atop the boiler- the real loco had a join in the boiler cladding which actually produced a groove rather than a seam. The wheels are reckoned to be undersize but I can check that out when buying the wheels for conversion and see if the splashers can be thinned down a little. Also purchased a nice little Midland 1F open cab from Bachmann- ...
65. Single slips
... topic: 2496 Single slips posted: 30 Jul 2014 11:44 from: Trevor Walling Hello, I have moved this topic here as I think I had put it in the wrong place previously. I have reached the stage where I need to produce a template or templates for the single slip roads to form a trailing crossover for up and down lines. I have started on the up road slip but I seem to be hitting the buffers so to speak.I followed the tutorial for a single slip but instead of swapping the turnout hand I have inverted it.It sort of works but I seem to end up with extra lines at the switches and confusion. Any help would be most appreciated please as I seem to be at an impasse.I think once I have mastered this first slip I should be able to complete the other.I also enclose the box file.2110_291142_090000000.png Thanks. Trevor. Attachment: attach_1893_2496_upslip_crossover .box 254 posted: 30 Jul 2014 12:10 from: Martin Wynne Hi Trevor, You moved it while I was preparing a reply! Hi Trevor, You have used ...
... Martin. posted: 2 Oct 2018 06:59 from: madscientist I can't quite see the rationale for another OO track entrant myself. This would be doubly true if the pricing is significantly different to the other offerings. Exact track fidelity or worrying about chair key direction is not the hallmark of most OO modelers Last edited on 2 Oct 2018 07:00 by madscientist posted: 2 Oct 2018 09:00 from: Hayfield You may not see the need but its not entirely a new entrant. C&L have been producing 4 mm scale 00 gauge track for the best part of 40 odd years, it was their best selling line, but after many repairs the old tool gave up As a new tool was needed Phil tool the opportunity to revisit the track and up date it. 00 gauge modellers are some of the most discerning modellers out there, look at the level of detail they demand from the models, which they buy in bulk. It is their demand that funds the RTR scale models EM and P4 modellers flock to buy and ...
... topic: 910 Loose heeled switches posted: 26 Jul 2009 10:57 from: David Burton There was an interesting topic on the forum last year showing pictures of a loose healed switch, with some suggestions on how to model them. topic 424 Having produced a plan for a small Great Western yard in the early 1920s using this type of switch, I now need to start building them. Fairly recently there was an article on producing loose healed switches in the modelling press. Try as I may, I have been unable to find it again. People in the various groups to which I belong can remember it, but have been unable to tell me where it was. Can anybody help please? Thanks. David posted: 26 Jul 2009 11:57 from: Dave Summers There's no easy way to say this but you may have more success searching with 'loose-heeled' rather than 'loose-healed'! posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:05 from: Martin Wynne David Burton wrote: Fairly recently there was an article on producing ...
... file containing only that template? Or all templates displaying the same effect? (select it/them as a group, save group). What happens if you restart Templot and reload the file? p.s. If you are printing lots of pages today, why not download the latest TDV build? Then you can increase the font size for the corner page numbers, which I know you find troublesome. regards, Martin. posted: 17 Jun 2011 12:03 from: Martin Wynne p.s. Gordon, I have now produced this by setting the trackbed edges on the adjacent template to 82.5mm width: 2_170659_480000000.png Does that ring any bells? regards, Martin. posted: 17 Jun 2011 12:10 from: Gordon S Yes. The trackbed width is 82mm. posted: 17 Jun 2011 12:17 from: Gordon S Here's the templates affected without trackbed edges. The sleepers are missing on R16 (on one track only),17,18& S16 and 17. Row T seems fine. Attachment: attach_1109_1540_Eastwood_print_pr oblem_template....box 361 ...
69. Inserting a loop
... topic: 576 Inserting a loop posted: 29 Sep 2008 18:52 from: Scott Willis Attached is the track plan I am currently working on. You will see that the plan is based on an Iain Rice drawing. It is intended to base the layout on a North British branch line around the Borders. In typical NB style, turnouts will have interlaced sleepers and loose heel switches. To produce a nice sweeping curve, the main running line and the loop line have been drawn using transition s-curves. Can anyone tell me what would be the best way of incorporating two crossovers into the transition s-curves to complete the run-round loop. Having tried a number of techniques from the tutorials, I found that I am having trouble maintaining the original s-curves. Many thanks Scott Attachment: attach_357_576_NBbranch.bgs 235 posted: 29 Sep 2008 19:08 from: Scott Willis Sorry for the last attachment. I have attached the track plan again, this time as a jpeg. Regards Scott Attachment: attach_358_576_NBbranch.jpg 203 posted: 29 ...
... formations and a multitrack fiddle yard on the other long wall of the room creating a large 'roundy roundy'. Eventually the short wall opposite to the door will hopefully become a fair sized MPD with the main running tracks under, accessed by a rising gradient behind the station. My plan is to learn to hand build the turnouts on the station board and use peco for the fiddle yard. I am starting track planning now so I can spend the next few months learning to build trackwork and then when the trackplan is completed hopefully produce some turnouts to put in store for the actual build. For the plain track; I am currently leaning towards DCC Concepts 'Legacy' flexi-track. I have spent much of Christmas on the steep learning curve for Templot and have created my first track plan( attached). I know that it is far from perfect having used some crude techniques to fit it together which hopefully can be improved on as my understanding of this fairly complex program increases. It is based on Huddersfield but with sufficient modifications that it could not ...
... Question 2. With reference to Q1. above, would a possible solution to the above question be, to ensure all templates are saved in the box folder, and backed up elsewhere, then to re-install of the TDV (build #4009)? Hopefully this will give a clean start to the Switch Settings menu, then I can re-add the custom template as before, but giving it it's correct title name and complete data. Now to the real crunch, I have a dilemma, in trying to produce custom templates that anyone else, who so wished, could use. First it is important for me to state, I am fully aware that Templot and I (or anyone else for that matter), can produce, 'locally' (on my PC or their PC), custom templates for any type of proto turnout with any custom switch& crossing angle detail to match those of the proto. I have already done so for a few turnouts of my own layout and as experiments. The dilemma rests in the change ...
... studding or bolt, and where 2 nuts are tightened together they stay put. so a bolt and 6 nuts will make a type of roller gauge/ check rail gauge. just use an electronic calliper for fine tuning to gauge. 1mm flangeway gauge available from the EM gauge society. Where there is a will there's a way. Good luck as it sounds very interesting John John posted: 13 Dec 2014 08:39 from: TPP Hi John I have been admiring your work on RMweb- luckily I will only have to produce much easier bits of trackwork than the complicated ones you make looks easy. Some of those low tech ideas for gauges sound very straight forward posted: 13 Dec 2014 08:43 from: TPP Last nights reading turned this up... It is referring to Greenly- the lines constructor- in fact he more or less constructed the entire railway..." the Romney sleeper spacing of 22 inches being said to be his natural stride" posted: 13 Dec 2014 09:22 from: Matt M. Hi ...
... welcome to the Templot club and hello from Australia. I have followed your description of your 2mm modeling work on the RMWeb website. I was very impressed with the quality of your baseboard and modeling work of the subject station, Piraeus. I am not an expert user of Templot and a somewhat slow learner however, I found that with perseverance( you just decide that you will not let the program beat you) and after a time of trying one day it all just seemed to all come together and I was able to produce reasonable (for my use) Templot templates of my model railway layout ideas. Oh, there's plenty of help available here, you just have to ask. Best regards from, Pierre Panos Tsirigotis wrote: Hello I am a new member in templot club and want to introduce myself. I am Panos from Greece and I am an N scale railway modeller. I am currently modelling a prototype railway station in Greece and I op to handlay track. Although prototype track plans does not include curved turnouts (it was once the ...
... topic: 3668 diamond-crossings- help me find the words posted: 14 May 2020 11:46 from: Martin Wynne David G has asked me a question to which I know the answer. But I don't know how to explain it in words. There are two ways to create a diamond-crossing in Templot: 1. peg/align tools> make diamond-crossing at intersection This more often than not produces an irregular diamond. The maths is optimized towards preserving the underlying curving and radii. 2. tools> make diamond-crossing tools> make slip crossover tools> make ladder crossover This produces a regular diamond. The maths is optimized towards maintaining the crossing angles and track spacings. There are some situations where either method could be used -- but in curved track, method 2 produces a slightly different result from method 1. So the obvious question is -- which method do you use in any given situation? If it's closely connected to other pointwork it would normally be method 2. But not always -- a ...
... a diagram 450mm square. Which 800x400 isn't? Templot has a function to draw the track centre-lines only, at any width, irrespective of the gauge of the rails (and in the marker colours), which may help you make a panel. Can you post a screenshot of what you mean by jagged track edges? That may just be your screen resolution, it would print smooth. Traditionally a steam-era railway would be controlled from a signal box diagram and a row of levers. Templot and sketchboard can produce some very nice-looking signal box diagrams. But not from an existing track plan, it needs to be re-drawn as a signal box diagram all in plain track templates, something like this: slip2.gif cheers, Martin. posted: 13 May 2020 13:43 from: Gordon S Thanks Martin. ET is 18' x 14', but I plan to cut off the bottom end of the plan as that is just plain track. Looking at the drawing I have in front of me the aspect ratio ...
... topic: 1683 Problem with printing custom page size. posted: 10 Nov 2011 19:25 from: Tony W Hi Martin. I wonder if anyone else has come across this problem as it is a bit specialised. I have searched the forum without much success. I have an HP 1280 deskjet that allows the user to define custom paper sizes. I have cut some A1 paper lengthwise to produce what amounts to a double length A3 sheet. This is very useful for printing out longer sections of track. The paper size is defined as 300 x 840mm. Most of the time this works fine, the problem I have found seems to occur when a large area of the page to be printed contains no template. If the page starts with a template it will print this and then print a bit more of the page before producing an error message. If however the page starts printing from the blank edge then it will print about 300mm of the page and then produce an error message. See screen shot below. This is a problem I ...
... Windows dialog so there is not much I can change. I may have to use a different dialog, without the image preview option. Thanks for the report. regards, Martin. posted: 26 Nov 2011 17:00 from: Tony W Hi Martin. In answer to your questions. What happens if you try a much smaller image, say 1000 dots wide It works at 1000, 2000 and 3000 but not 4000 dots wide. By experiment I have discovered that it will work at 3242 dots, but 3243 dots produces the error. What happens if you load a background picture shape, and try saving that as jpg? picture content:> save... button on the background shapes dialog. This works OK, at least it has in this example. What happens if you save a jpg from the sketchboard -- file> export image file... on the sketchboard menus? This produces the same error message. If the file handling in XP is going to be a problem then perhaps it is best left as is ...
78. Code Formatting
... %, cast-iron, totally, cross-my-heart guarantee. And that is this... when we get a third contributor he will have a completely different view from either of us! hahaha And so to the point of all this... You may have heard of the Go programming language, which was created by Google. In the Go community nobody ever talks about formatting. Not ever. It is a completely non-existent topic. The reason for this is that the compiler team also produced a code formatter which sits with the compiler and other tools and which everyone uses. It appears to be unthinkable to Go developers not to format their code using it. Now, it is almost something of a joke in that community that nobody likes what it does- at least not completely. There are some good bits and some bad bits, but of course nobody agrees on what the good and bad bits actually are! But what they all DO agree on is that standardisation is the most important thing, and so ...
... ://85a.co.uk/forum/view_forum.php?id=11 I have learned an awful lot from this Templot site, and RMW. One other thing- save your work, open a fresh trackpad in Templot, stick a few bits and pieces on it and then play about with the menu options to see what each one does. I don't think it's possible to break it by doing so. Contrary to what a few loud mouths might have you believe, it is very intuitive and if you follow its guidance you will produce prototypical designs. Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, btw. Derek Last edited on 29 Sep 2015 23:30 by DerekStuart posted: 30 Sep 2015 09:15 from: rynd2it No, not stating the obvious Derek, when I get some time I will do more experiments. As with all powerful software it takes time to learn how it works. Now all I need is time David posted: 30 Sep 2015 12:34 from: DerekStuart Hi David I don't know if you have yet found the PEG ...
... 4 Jun 2013 19:35 from: LSWRArt Thanks Martin That works fine, but I cannot get the Sketchboard to export to PDF. I keep getting the message <An image is too large for your graphics system>. I have a fairly modern Toshiba i5 laptop running Windows 7, 64 bit with an ATI Radeon premium graphics card. None of the images in Sketchboard are set to transparent. This message came up 6 times. I set the Sketchboard shapes to outline only, instead of outline and fill, but that produced exactly the same results. Most of the graphics are omitted from all the PDF pages, but even more seriously, page 6 is completely blank- perhaps because it has more sketchboard images on it? I chose to omit pages C1 and C6, but D6 has not exported- it is just a blank page, although the track show correctly on pages D1 to D5. Any suggestions please, or do I just need to buy a new computer? I will enclose the box file, the sketchboard file and the pdf ...
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