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... request, you have created a 3 way turnout in the wrong area. It is the group of 3 parallel sidings at the top of the track plan to which I was referring, although having said that the alterations you made in what is the locomotive servicing area of the plan may well be worth incorporating in the plan. Many thanks for your input so far. Best wishes, Dave Yates posted: 13 Aug 2014 17:10 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Dave, Is this what you are looking for? I have produced a 3 way tandem to the upper sidings. Please note I have left all your original templates in the box file so you will need to have a clear out when you have completed. I have not done any timbering on the tandem, as I wanted your opinion first. Hope it helps. All the best, Brian Attachment: attach_1912_1901_staircliffe_excha nge_BN_Sample_v1.box 296 posted: 14 Aug 2014 00:49 from: David Yates Brian Nicholls wrote: Hi Dave, Is this what you are looking for? I have produced a 3 ...
... of the turnout? Thank you, Richard. Hi Richard, I've been looking at your yard turnout. If you make a double slip from it you can see what happens to the timbering and switches in that case. I've copied your turnout and turned into a double slip, parked below the turnout. This shows that that equalised incremental timbering seems a good way go. I'm sure that if there was already a standard way of doing things it would have been used elsewhere. Box file attached. By the way, to produce the switches, I extend the main line, F4, and split it off. Put a turnout in the split off length and reduce it until you only have the switch or switches left. Then use 'Snake through the peg', Ctrl F6, to slide the switches along until they are where you want them. At the same time you can remove the unwanted switch and stock rail if its a single blade catch point. In the same way, the switch in the diverging road can be produced by using 'Make ...
... topic: 965 Great Eastern Railway templates posted: 27 Oct 2009 01:01 from: Simon Dunkley Hi, Does anyone have the gen that would enable me to produce templates for GER track, both plain (rail lengths and sleeper spacing) and turnouts? From photographs, I have noticed that they had interlaced sleepers between the switches and crossings, but used timbers under these. Some time ago a 1:8 NER interlaced turnout template was made available, but practices differ, althoguh it can be used as a starting point. (Pardon the pun- it was unintentional.) My primary interest is to suit a branchline in the late Edwardian era, so I suspect the practice would be that current some 15-20 years earlier. My sketched out layout plan is based mostly on using 1in7 crossings. Regards, Simon posted: 27 Oct 2009 10:46 from: Martin Wynne Hi Simon, The man to ask for all things GER is Adrian Marks of this parish. You can send him a private message by clicking: http: ...
84. Heyside
... topic: 2382 Heyside posted: 20 Jan 2014 19:08 from: LSWRArt I have only just got around to reading January BRM and the creator of the 7mm 0-MF layout, Heyside, Richard Lambert, is very complimentary about Templot: "Martin Wynne's programme is marvellous for producing flowing trackwork and making sure it fits in the space available..." Richard also thanks Jim Guthrie for his help in producing the templates for the layout. It is nice that someone who has produced a superb layout is so appreciative and has put that, in print, in a mass circulation magazine. Arthur Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Heyside 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, all ...
... //templot.com/martweb/info_files/make_trans.htm You can set the swing angle on a template: geometry> swing angles (in degrees) ... menu item. You can locate a template at any desired position and angle on the grid, by setting the notch there, and then pegging onto it: geometry> notch> set notch position and angle... menu item. regards, Martin. posted: 1 Apr 2015 21:37 from: madscientist when I make a curve, and I want to produce an exact 90 degree bend for example how do I know ps should there be a transition curve from straight to curve to follow prototype posted: 1 Apr 2015 21:38 from: madscientist sorry I see what you mean posted: 1 Apr 2015 21:47 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: when I make a curve, and I want to produce an exact 90 degree bend for example how do I know ps should there be a transition curve from straight to curve to follow prototype Hi Dave, Yes, especially ...
... special larger joint chairs on them. I don't know anyone who makes such chairs. regards, Martin. 100_310859_070000000.jpg Available in 7mm scale in packs of 16 or 80 from Off The Rails Regards, Dave R Last edited on 31 Mar 2015 14:09 by David R posted: 31 Mar 2015 16:28 from: Rob Manchester Hi Dave, Many thanks for the chair info. My current project is 4mm scale but I will bear your excellent products in mind for the future. What is the chance of being able to produce a 3D printed trackbase( timbers and chairs) from Templot DXF output? Rob posted: 1 Apr 2015 14:05 from: David R Rob Manchester wrote: What is the chance of being able to produce a 3D printed trackbase( timbers and chairs) from Templot DXF output? As far as I can recall Templot's DXF output is in a wireframe format (awaits correction by Martin...) and does not contain any chair information whatsoever. To translate the DXF into something suitable for 3d printing you would have ...
... go: 2_271212_540000001.png Bear in mind that there is room for confusion -- if you have hidden group templates and then add another template to the group it will instantly disappear until you show them again. The show setting is automatically restored for next time when the grouping is cancelled (CTRL+ Y). The above changes will be in the next program update. regards, Martin. posted: 29 Jun 2014 13:16 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Martin, I have, as a method of checking most of them, produced an updated version of the Templot2 keyboard short cuts. See attached PDF file. As you will see this is for the current version of 2.09a, although I have not added the latest HOME Key changes, which is the subject of your posted message here, I will do this when the next update is published and I have checked them for myself. I hope this may help others to understand the short cuts and make their use of Templot easier. If you need this latest data for the companion pages, just let ...
... topic: 1928 sketchboard bitmap rendering quality posted: 19 Apr 2012 15:48 from: Martin Wynne I have made some changes to the way the sketchboard renders bitmap images, i.e. items added to the sketchboard drawing by clicking the add item> bitmap image button. There is a new option setting to control the image rendering quality. design quality is fast and intended for use while you are working on your layout design. display quality is much slower but produces a more pleasing final result for display purposes when creating images for publication, exhibition display, web sites, printed pages, etc. The intention is that you should do most of your design work in design quality, and switch to display quality only to produce the final output. This setting is included in your program preferences, if you save them. See at 1. below, on the options tab: 2_190758_000000000.png Here is the typical effect of the two options, after adding Brian's signal box to the sketchboard from the library folder: 2_190759_190000001.png 2_190759_190000000.png Design quality uses a simple pixel- ...
... Thanks for any help. Regards, ken Australia posted: 11 Jan 2010 08:44 from: Martin Wynne Hi Ken, Welcome to Templot Club. I'm sure you will find lots of friendly track-building help here. I think it is fair to say that many modellers building their own track in this scale would use the 2mm finescale standards rather than commercial N Gauge -- that of course has implications for RTR rolling stock conversions, wheel changing, etc. I would be doubtful that stripping components from Peco turnouts would produce very successful hand-built track, but making your own track parts really isn't difficult with a few jigs and tools. Two obvious starting points for you are: 1. The 2mm Scale Association. Their excellent web site is at: http://www.2mm.org.uk They can supply the tools and jigs for track building, and have a detailed page about getting started with hand-built 2mm scale track at: http://www.2mm.org.uk/articles/getting_started/ 2. The N Gauge Society. Their web site is ...
... y coordinates from Templot, then cut it out with a tenon saw. It works well. teh second bit of prgress is that I've now got acces to the original drawings of Greyhound bridge which is one of the layout centrepieces. It now carries the northbound A6 and network rail wouldn't even tell me if they had any drawings of it. I finally got them from the bridge engineer for lancashire County Council who has been wonderfully helpful. I've ow had them photocopied to 7mm scale so that the main girders and piers can be produced. I've even got a cross section tat shows the curved overhead gantries, which were mssing form the other set of drawings. here is a pdf of the cross section. Attachment: attach_739_948_greyhound_portal.pd f 399 posted: 1 Mar 2010 08:51 from: Jamie92208 HELP PLEASE I am now progressing well with the first set of baseboards and hopefully will start laying track in April when I can move the boards to the clubrooms. In the meantime I am trying to tidy up the rest of the trackplan. I am having trouble ...
... trying to do? Well, it struck me that Templot could be used for designing things other than track. In this instance, I have a need to build some GWR paling fencing (the type with vertical uprights); in 4mm one can just use Ratio, but in 3mm this isn't an option, and using the 4mm stuff looks wrong. If you think about it, such fences in outline look just like track, with sleepers representing the vertical bits and rail the horizontal battens. So, my intention is to produce a template of such fencing which can act as a guide to building some. As well as plain fencing, it should be possible to produce templates for such things as gates, which would enable one to produce a complete bespoke plan to fit a given site. I actually only need a fairly short section, which includes two types of gate. I haven't yet found definitive measurements for everything, but using the 4mm Ratio stuff and Great Western Way as a guide, the vertical bits seem to be about 3" wide ...
... the latest incarnation of Blue Town, which bears a passing resemblance to Sheerness Dockyard (LCDR) post the 1883 trackwork revamp, condensed into 12 feet X 3 feet space in S7. There is a three-way tandem (they seem to be in fashion at the moment, although I've taken heed of all the advice) I need to finish- its just overlayed right and left hand templates at the moment. When I get everything just right I'll put the V crossings in the right place and play with partial templates to produce the definitive template. However- I cannot get my head around the alteration of checkrail lengths, shortened or lengthened! There are several place where check-rails should seamlessly merge through turnouts and crossovers, but I get hopelessly lost in the various acronyms and options, so that anything I produce is actually by guesswork and accident. Can someone help me though this please? Thanks. Phil PS Surprisingly, shoving timbers is actually quite a restful task. Attachment: attach_688_972_blue_town_1883_09_1 1_15_2055_51.box 218 posted: 16 Nov 2009 06:39 from ...
... work, not with a 1:23 crossing, and it is nearly 3' long! Alan Attachment: attach_677_951_untitled_3.PNG 580 posted: 27 Oct 2009 09:37 from: Jamie92208 One way forward would be to construct it as a switched frog crossing. This can be done using the standard template and provides a nice smooth progress through the frog. I have done this on my Long Preston layout where there are some very long crossings in the entrance trackage to the fiddle yard. I got into templot becasue a friend of mine produced the template for the trackwork on templot and I then made it as a switched frog. I was so impressed that I went and bought templot myself and ahve never regretted it. If you are interested I could post some photos of the frogs. All you need is a second point motor slaved to the main motor. Also the point blades sometimes need a little bit of reinforcement (A bit of nickel silver wire along the base of the thin part.) Have fun. Jamie posted: 27 Oct 2009 10: ...
... clearances between wheels and outside valve gear, and wheels and splashers, to give just two examples. The proposed wheels simply wouldn't work if the scale was right for the track. So they increased the scale. Which is why commercial toy models of British locomotives in ALL scales use underscale track. To return to the discussion, OO isn't primarily a scale. It is a scale/gauge combination, in the same way that EM and P4 are scale/gauge combinations. Cheers Nigel Sorry you are suggesting it's not possible to produce HO models of British locomotives !! !!( then or now) posted: 26 Sep 2015 13:21 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: Sorry you are suggesting it's not possible to produce H0 models of British locomotives !! !! Unfortunately, yes that is the case. At least if you want them to be the correct scale-width models. All H0 models are overscale width on axleboxes, bogie sideframes, etc., to accommodate the daft arrangement of having overscale wheels on an exact-scale ...
... thanks for the proposed additional arrow buttons. As I stated in my last message, it is I, that really needs to get to grips with sketchboard and use it's facilities to advantage. I'm not quite sure how you would remove the BGS functions completely, as users will require to add in a background track plan (map, drawing etc), these are clearly very essential to the guidance for their layouts. After all, although sketchboard is an excellent additional tool, Templot is the main tool that users really need to produce accurate templates to build and lay their tracks for their dream model railway. I personally cannot image going back to pencil and paper, having to use geometry and versines to produce hand drawn templates, Templot, for me, has certainly put that into touch. Thanks again Martin for the explanation. All the best, Brian Nicholls. posted: 4 Apr 2012 14:19 from: Martin Wynne Brian Nicholls wrote: I'm not quite sure how you would remove the BGS functions completely, as users will require to add in ...
... until the copyright owner requests it and proves it is still in copyright. I'm not really expecting to hear from the London& North Western Railway, or its successors. regards, Martin. posted: 1 Feb 2015 21:01 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Martin, As I stated in my previous message, my posting was just to ensure no problem arises. Now to clarify the image, that image (the one posted by Trevor) was scanned some time within the last 5 or 6 years, however, the images produced, were of very low resolution, also of one bit depth which made may details in most of the images totally 'unreadable'. So in 2013 all the PW track drawings were first cleaned and scanned again, this time using very high resolution and 8 or 16 bit grey scale depth, making the images much better quality, so much so, that it meant they could be used in the production of two books that were produced in 2013 though not actually published until early 2014. The books, are printed at A3 ...
... Rail wrote: I'm not sure how much longer Servo4 kits are going to be available for (currently out of stock), as I think the Cbus project is getting all the attention at the moment and will have a servo operating capability and of course can be used with both DC and DCC. The Servo4 kit is MERG's most popular kit and it will be continued in production for the foreseeable future. It is also excellent value for money and even better value in the multi-pack if you're building lots. Our kit producers are working as hard as they can to keep up with demand! CBUS is developing nicely and will run in parallel with the conventional DCC kits for those who have invested in DCC. Judi posted: 7 Jul 2016 10:42 from: redken Being fairly new to railway modeling.I'm nearly 70 by the way.I rely very much on you people for help and advice.All my track is now down and working.I need to motorize the Points and Semaphores signals I have obtained.I like the idea of using servos but my soldering skills are very limited ...
... a right-hand blade. For "A" blades make the template a 9ft straight switch and 1:24 crossing angle. The planing length is 22mm. If you are careful these filing aids should be good for several blades. But cost next to nothing if you need to replace them. More about planing lengths and the stock gauge here: http://templot.com/companion/real_track.php Here is some prototype information. It is next to impossible to copy this exactly in 4mm/ft scale, the above methods produce an adequate representation: 2_041213_250000000.jpg regards, Martin. posted: 9 Dec 2015 13:29 from: madscientist Thanks guys Martin, all very clear The reason that I am looking at this in detail again, is I am trying to setup my little CNC proton milling machine to do all these for me, Im looking at what fixturing I need, for both the switch blades and the crossing vees. With 30 turnouts to make in the new year its worth a bit of investigation Have anyone ever tried milling them ?, ...
99. Flipping track!
... topic: 1824 Flipping track! posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:15 from: Mike Waldron Good Morning all: I have been working on 3-way interlaced turnouts- both with mixed and similar point types- B8/ B6 as well as B6 /B6 each way. my question is: once you have produced the exact track formation what you want, and found that you also need the other-handed version, is there a way to group the whole formation and just flip it in mirror image? Do I have to go through the whole building process all over again? Mike posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:49 from: Martin Wynne Mike Waldron wrote: my question is: once you have produced the exact track formation what you want, and found that you also need the other-handed version, is there a way to group the whole formation and just flip it in mirror image? Hi Mike, 1. Select them as a group. 2. group> duplicate group if you want to keep the originals. ...
... Have you tried wrapping background scans to the control template: 2_191552_300000001.png regards, Martin. posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:12 from: Brian McK Hi, I downloaded Simon's PDF file but when viewed at magnification, linework for rails showed this odd display ?? Brian McK. 414_240209_130000000.gif Simon Dunkley wrote: And finally, for now, a pdf version of the same plan, to 1:16 of the size for S scale. posted: 24 Aug 2011 20:30 from: Simon Dunkley I suspect that's because I produced it at a reduced scale, and magnifying it has brought it home. I can post a pdf that was created to be full-size for a layout, if you wish. posted: 24 Aug 2011 23:38 from: Martin Wynne Hi Brian, Simon, This is caused by rounding effects. The PDF files contain the template data in vector format. That means it is stored as co-ordinates and drawing instructions, rather than as raster format (image pixels). When you create a PDF at ...
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