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... topic: 2734 3D Printed Track and Turnouts posted: 9 Aug 2015 05:18 from: Andrew Barrowman Greetings fellow Templotters, As some of you already know, I've been messing about trying to print turnout bases on a 3D printer. It's fairly easy to create a 3D model of the timbers in CAD from any Templot template. It's also fairly simple to drag models of the chairs into the correct positions and orientation and combine them to produce an STL file to drive a printer. What is not so easy is producing 3D models for chairs that a) actually work, and b) don't look too horrible! I think I have reached a point where I'm limited by the printing technology itself. The results are actually a lot better than I thought they might be when I started out. Anyway, I've been making some wild guesses about chair dimensions, and I have not had a lot of luck finding anything on the Web. Any information would be greatly appreciated. (Here's a bit of track I've been using to test the latest chair ...
... can't get lost, perhaps water_tank_20x20ft.gif or some such. Here I have added your tank to a track plan. I stretched it to 30ft x 20ft (setting 120mm x 80mm on the sketchboard for 4mm scale) and rotated it to suit the tracks. This is the workpad view: 2_151253_370000000.png Which I think is brilliant. Many thanks Brian for taking the trouble to do this. If we could have a library of GIFs of this calibre available to sketchboard* users, I'm sure we could see some really attractive track plans being produced. (* The option to include multiple pages in a single file was making things far too complex. I have decided to limit the program to one page per .sk9 file, so I have therefore renamed the sketchbook function as sketchboard.) regards, Martin. posted: 15 Sep 2010 20:40 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Martin, First let me say, you are very welcome and I was happy to do it, and I might add, there will be more to come. I am very pleased that ...
... on this site who makes all the crossings bonded to the wing rails with thin brass strip unsoldered underneath which makes a very solid job of it! 2787_031702_460000000.jpg A friend, Dave Doe, told me in no uncertain manner that my ideas of using bent wire to provide the hinge for the loose heeled switches was very poor engerneering practice and generally a no no. I conceded defeat and actually found using 8BA or 10BA nuts soldered to the bottom of the sleeper rather satisfying to do. The appropriate bolt recessed bolt in the sleeper top produces the hinge to which the rail is soldered. 2787_031704_250000000.jpg and here is the switch blade about to be soldered in position. 2787_031705_320000000.jpg this shot shows the basic point work in an almost finished state. Just the trackwork to finish and crossing wires installed, before taking outside to spray. It also shows in exaggerated form, the distinctive dogleg produced by the loose heel of the switch. 2787_031658_470000000.jpg Sprayed and wired, the track is very fragile in this state so I took a tip from Iain rice and soldered some rail across the ...
... year, and I just haven't been able to sit down and do a lot, in fact modelling in general has taken a bit of a back seat. However, more time is becoming available and I shall undoubtedly give Templot2 a going over, which may or may not generate questions depending on how I get on. I have had a chance to play around just a bit with the sketchpad. This was one of things I was looking forwards to and I think it's got great potential for adding to the raw trackwork to producing attractive plans. I may well end up with some questions there. Platform edges I've noted in passing, and will try to give them a go. I was working on a plan for a future project which was looking quite good; unfortunately 6 months ago I started building a new computer (W7, Intel core-i5, loads of memory etc) to replace my nice but failing XP machine, but with the log jam of things to do that has only just been completed (I'm using it now). ...
... 4_where_do_i_start.php I will update this topic as I get more done. Martin. posted: 28 Jan 2018 02:58 from: Martin Wynne Another short video added for beginners: http://templot.com/companion/4_where_do_i_start.php I would welcome some feedback about the style and content of these videos, and the Templot Explained section generally: http://templot.com/companion/0_for_beginners.php I hope I am hitting the right level for raw beginners, it's impossible for me to know. It certainly takes a great deal of time to produce. Hopefully the information delivery rate can be increased as beginners become more familiar with the concepts. regards, Martin. posted: 28 Jan 2018 20:47 from: Phil O Martin, I think it might help, if on the first link, you put a picture of the first screen that you see on opening Templot and a note on how to change the scale and gauge to suit the first time user. Most first time users will like me think what the hell do I do with this. Is it ...
... the offer of more pics sometime. Don't put yourself out on my behalf though...but if you need an excuse for a walk, great. I have had dozens of digital cameras including top pro SLR's costing thousands. I too have a Fuji X100( the original 12mp one) and it is my longest owned camera. It is great to use, fits a jacket pocket and I love the aperture ring being on the lens rather than on a control wheel. Being in a good location is 75% of producing decent photos but you still need some imagination with the composition and a capable camera. I considered upgrading the X100 to a later version but not sure it would actually produce better results for what I want. I find the battery life not too great so have a spare and a USB charger to use in the car between locations if required. The 24mm lens( old money about 36mm) is just about right for a walkaround camera in my opinion, any wider can cause issues and often won't be the same quality. ...
... corporation. And I have had worse product and service from some of those. I was trying to point out that as a complaint goes it was fairly lacklustre. Wasn't it? Regards, Matt M. posted: 17 Jan 2014 09:04 from: Martin Wynne JFS wrote:... sorry aqain about the poor formatting- and for "spaces" above please read "Line Feeds" Hi Howard, I'm sorry about the problems in Google Chrome. And in Internet Explorer. The very same code running in Firefox produces the expected line formatting; in Chrome requires two blank lines to deliver one blank line; and in IE delivers two blank lines when only one is entered. It's all the same code. I will see what I can do, but in the meantime: 1. Try using the Quick Reply box at the bottom of every topic page. You can increase the area by dragging the corner grip. Quotes, formatted text and image URLs can be inserted using the usual BBcodes in square brackets. or 2. Change to ...
... NER sleepered single junctions posted: 4 Jan 2008 20:10 from: Bob Ellis Hi Martin, Several months ago you were kind enough to create a North Eastern Railway 1:8 sleepered single junction template for me, which I have found very useful. The conversion of my garage into a bespoke railway room is now nearly complete and I want to get down to finalising the design of the layout that will go into it. This will be a pre-grouping NER layout in P4, so I have started trying to produce my own single junctions to various sizes between 1:6.25 and 1:8.75. I can produce the V-crossing I want and I can create the correct sizes of sleepers and shove them into position, but I am not sure what to do about the switch. I know NER switches were non-standard and I presume I therefore need to construct a custom switch. There are tables in the NER Permanent Way Standards that give me the length of switch for each angle of single junction, but I am unsure ...
... The tutorials really did help to re-adjust my mindset and make me understand the way the software works. Most of it seems second nature now, but I'm still finding new things and there are still things I'm aware of being there but don't really understand what they do! -- Paul Boyd [url http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/ [/ url] posted: posted: 16 May 2007 21:12 from: Bob Ellis Hi Paul, What I would like to achieve in the first instance is to produce a track plan for the P4 test track I am building. This will contain four sets of points and one single slip. It needs to represent North Eastern Railway practice c.1910/11 since it will be a dry run for the model of Leyburn station at that date I shall begin building next year when the conversion of my garage into a bespoke railway room has been completed. This means I need points with interlaced sleepers and non-standard switches- standard REA B8s, for example, just will not do. Trust ...
... Mar 2008 17:59 from: Martin Wynne Hi Brian, Here is a diagram showing what you are trying to do: vee_tips.png I have greatly exaggerated the crossing angle for clarity. The rails are shown in cross-section along the rail -- yellow shows the rail head and foot, orange shows the web of the rail. A is a prepared piece of rail with the end bent to the crossing angle, or slightly less. Allow a little extra on the overall length. Two cuts are made as shown, producing the result at B with solid metal at the tip at x. It is possible to leave making the second cuts until after the vee is assembled, producing a neater result, but it is difficult to hold the assembled vee for that if you intend to file them in a jig. The splice rail C is as B, and the point rail D is the same again but of the opposite hand. It is notched down to the web to make a soldered joint at s. In view of the solder fill ...
11. A user gives up
... continued efforts and keep up the good work! Howard. posted: 17 Jul 2013 20:27 from: Martin Wynne JFS wrote: For me, the "best things ever" have been the videos- they show an end result and then you can discover how its was done. Better you can keep playing them till it sinks in! Hopefully, for you, they are also easier to make than sitting there banging in millions of words! Unfortunately not. For me at least they are extremely time-consuming to produce. My raw screen recordings are full of mouse fumbles and mis-clicks, and it takes me many hours to edit them down to a reasonably smooth-running video. And then to add in all the callouts and other notes in the right places. Then if I make program changes in Templot, a text file can be edited to reflect the changes and any static screenshots replaced. For a video it effectively means starting again. Many of the existing videos are very out of date for Templot2, but represent hours ...
... add 3mm for overscale coach door handles, wheel/gauge freedom etc. Then adds extra for the overhang on curves. 5.6mm for the center with 283mmm between bogies, and 8.1mm for the end with a length of 444mm. To give a total of 79.7mm However, Ian Allen has a problem with 85mm? Mike JOhnson posted: 20 Feb 2012 06:02 from: Terry Flynn I would suggest an easy way to determine track centres is to use the AMRA standards located at http://www.amra.asn.au/standards.htm which will produce a conservative result for UK models. Unfortunately the older version with the 1:76.2 scale errors in it are still on the web. Hopefully this will be corrected soon. Using the latest AMRA standard results for the original question of UK prototype, EM gauge 1:76.2 scale using 48" curves, minimum track centre= 55mm. For the 0 gauge example the AMRA standard for UK prototype, 1:43.5 scale, 1800mm radius, minimum track centre= 99mm. The AMRA standard makes loading gauge and maximum vehicle ...
13. 3D again?
... in the first place. But if the rails are 3D printed, that problem is entirely eliminated -- to be replaced by the skills needed to install batteries and radio-control into locomotives. Or maybe not -- step forward the trade to do that, and 3D printing to create complex track formations, and such layouts are within anyone's reach -- no more requests on RMweb for help with filing switch blades and using track gauges and which track standard to use. Now what we need is a computer program which can produce the 3D printer files for your common-or-garden slip crossover or curved double junction -- anyone have any ideas where to find such a thing? 2_260016_310000003.png Freed from the need to fiddle about with sore fingers and bits of rail and broken chairs, 2_201859_050000000.jpg (two sleepers is a long way from a working layout) I think I could rediscover my enthusiasm for the 3D-printed track -- but this time the whole thing, with all the complex rail parts printed-in too. It just need some ...
... topic: 1077 Baseboard rectangle shape posted: 13 Mar 2010 13:02 from: Arthur Budd After my success producing a usable track plan yesterday I've hit another wall trying to produce the baseboard outline as a background shape. I've read the relevant section in the Companion and I've tried to specify the shape as a rectangle with mouse clicks but nothing appears. I've tried to draw the shape as separate lines; some appear where they are supposed to, others only appear as half length lines which I cannot add to. I think I've tried every combination of clicks etc but I've yet to produce even a simple rectangle of the correct size. As for entering dimensions, that has me completely confused. I dread to think what sort of mess I would make of a scan. Can someone please help and explain what I'm either not doing or doing wrong? Regards Arthur posted: 13 Mar 2010 13:13 from: Martin Wynne Arthur Budd wrote: I think I've tried every combination of clicks etc but I've yet to produce even a simple rectangle of ...
... Attached to this post is the box file and the next two posts contain the two screenshots at the time the issue occurred. I do hope I haven't done anything wrong this time The starting template was a 1:12 curviform turnout in a length of straight track and I just let Templot proceed through the process without any changes when asking for the tandem. I did have an issue earlier when a stock rail in the 2nd v-crossing was not lined up but the issue above occured when I was trying to re-produce it. I will let you know. Rob Attachment: attach_2620_3185_Tandem_crash.box 242 posted: 16 Jan 2018 01:21 from: Rob Manchester 1st screenshot. Rob Attachment: attach_2622_3185_Tandem_crash_1.jp g 275 posted: 16 Jan 2018 01:22 from: Rob Manchester 2nd screenshot. Rob Attachment: attach_2623_3185_Tandem_crash_2.jp g 278 posted: 16 Jan 2018 01:31 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Here is a box file showing the rail not aligned in the 2nd v-crossing. Good night. Regards Rob Attachment: attach_2624_3185_Tandem_rail_issue .box 273 posted: ...
... undertaking any 'conversions'. Regards Brian Lewis posted: 22 Dec 2008 15:44 from: Martin Wynne Brian Lewis wrote: However, I still feel uneasy at what is essentially copying another's work, so I will discuss this aspect with Martin before undertaking any 'conversions'. Hi Brian, Copyright doesn't come into it. It is a matter of the licence agreement between us. There is some detailed guidance at: http://www.templot.com/martweb/licence_concessions.htm Provided your customer owns a Templot licence, you are free to produce material derived from Templot for him. This is clearly the case if he submits his own Templot file for custom laser cutting. On the other hand, you may not use Templot to create track materials for general commercial sale. You must first establish that the customer owns a Templot licence. For a large order, it may be worth purchasing a Templot licence on his behalf and including the cost in the total price. regards, Martin. posted: 22 Dec 2008 17:42 from: Brian Lewis All, No ...
... to do it. I'm sure you'll make the best decision for you. Regards, Brian Lewis (Lakeland) [i.e. not the C&L one] posted: 30 Jul 2008 16:13 from: Nigel Brown Jim Guthrie wrote A lot of CJF's designs were very complex from the constructional point of view and were probably not really suited to the average modeller who CJF (or his magazine) purported to support Jim. Hi Jim Not sure I'd agree with this. CJF was (is) a pragmatist, and produced designs which worked, unlike many others produced around that time. Provided, that is, you followed the design to the letter. His RM plans were produced at a time when railway modellers tended to produce model railways, as opposed to scale models of a real bit of railway, and naturally thought in terms of getting as much railway in a given, usually restricted, space as possible, hence tolerances tended to be pretty tight. He did point out when he reckoned a design needed some experience and/or an ...
... topic: 542 Bristol Temple Meads Old Station posted: 12 Sep 2008 13:28 from: Stumpytrain +++ This topic suffered corruption in the database and has been recompiled. +++ Hello, With a view to entering the 2mm Scale Association Layout Challenge I've been working on producing a plan to form a suitable base for Templot templates to be produced over. My chosen prototype is the "Old Station" at Bristol Temple Meads, which for those that don't know it can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/5xywn4 As the track is entirely under an overall roof the track arrangement unfortunately doesn't show on Ordnance Survey plans. However, I recently chanced across a 1908 plan in the GWR Magazine. Although my period of interest is the late 50s, early 60s as far as I can ascertain there were little or no per way alterations since that time. Anyway, I've overlaid this GWR plan on an OS map and this is what I've achieved... templot1.jpg It took a bit of skewing and stretching but I'm very pleased with the result ...
19. New user
... an old saying that holds very true when using Templot for the first few times" Don't run before you can walk". I've been using Templot for just over 3 months now and it was a case of forgetting what Windows commands are and just trying out what each action does to a template. Also it's important to run through the tutorials and ask questions on here. What's the worst that can happen? You don't save what you've just done. It's easy to start again having learnt from your last mistake. Martin has produced a fantastic aid to producing accurate templates for building the layout that you want and that will look right. Stick with it. Mike posted: 20 Jan 2011 05:07 from: Nicholas Geti Every Windows program that I use has some kind of Preference file. Usually in an Edit tab on a toolbar. It includes every item in current use and is updated either automatically whenever there is a change or on demand by the user. Microsoft Word saves the current file in Normal.dot and also a backup file every xx number ...
... Not in person, I hope, since that would mean that there are two of Brian- since someone closely resembling him extracted money from my wallet at Reading on Saturday. Jim. posted: 4 Dec 2007 04:31 from: Raymond Gibson Although I still have a very large Bridport (I used to do really big stuff, in the days when time was plentiful) I use jigs supplied by the ScaleSeven Society (Charles, you do not say what scale you work in but, presumably, other similar Socieites would produce the equivalent). Because steel is hard work to file, I take off the maximum with the a hand machine like the Dremel, then fine finish with hand files. "Onward Christian Soldiers" provides a good rhythm (& is just as good when walking up Cornish hills); but, probably, my favourite would be Cesar Frank's "Le Chasseur Maudit" (those Hounds of Hell provide a good stimulant to push on with the job Raymond. posted: 4 Dec 2007 12:04 from: Charles Orr ...
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