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... 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 is probably 3:2. The dimensions were off the top of my head, so probably 600 x 400. In terms of jagged edges, I was looking at an enlarged .png print on my screen which is set at 1920 x 1080 resolution. I'm not a computer/graphics expert, so there may be a better file type to export. Here's a pic from my screen showing what I meant. 479_130823_550000000.jpg The problem I have is mentally transferring a straight line schematic as per block diagrams, into the curved layout of my own track work. Remember it is spread over three sides and some of the turnouts may be 10' away from the control point and I have no chance of seeing if I have operated the correct one, ...
... squeaky clean; we use paper towel and meths for cleaning between prints. There have been adhesion problems with small diameter prints at around 6 mill diameter or less; a cure for this was to place the small cylinder on a sacrificial larger thin disc base and truncated cone. Another problem was found when printing a cylinder with 2mm dia spigot; the plastic became distorted due to insufficient cooling time between layers. This was completely resolved by printing six components at a time. It took about seven seconds to complete each layer in the set, by which time the previous layer had cooled sufficiently to be stable. regards Les G Last edited on 12 Aug 2015 21:59 by Les G posted: 13 Aug 2015 09:51 from: Howard Les G wrote: We are currently printing PLA at 210 initial then 200 for the main print. Our Mendel90 has a nozzle at 0.4 mm. We are using a glass plate heated to 60 degrees. Adhesion is rarely a problem as long as the glass is squeaky clean; we use paper towel and meths ...
... topic: 752 Saving user preferences posted: 5 Mar 2009 09:28 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, Bruce Wilson wrote: However, I do like the suggestion made of having Templot remember the last user settings. OK, I give in. I have never understood the importance of saving user preferences. I seldom use the same ones twice, and compared with an hour on Templot and hundreds or even thousands of mouse clicks in a session, half a dozen clicks at the start to change a few settings seem insignificant. Especially compared with the great advantage of starting from a known repeatable condition every time -- which also makes it much easier for me to provide user support. But I've been asked for saved preferences so often that I give in. In the next pug I will include the option to save some of your settings. But I need to know which ones -- I can't do every single thing that might be changed in Templot (although I can add more in each subsequent pug). So if you would like ...
... topic: 1511 Templot2 change log posted: 23 May 2011 15:53 from: Martin Wynne Templot2 Summary of the main changes in Templot since version 091c of February 2008 support for irregular diamond-crossings and curviform ladders platforms can be added alongside track templates check rails can now be individually set and adjusted by mouse action sketchboard layout drawing function rail foot edge lines can be shown on FB templates (flat-bottom rails) print menu renamed output menu output in diagram mode -- solid colour infill between stock rail edges Important: not available for partial templates if stock rails omitted -- temporarily lay plain track templates across complex formations to create diagram-mode output. output to PDF files, including large single pages for roll-paper poster printing export to bitmap image files in PNG, GIF, JPG, BMP formats export to vector image metafiles in EMF, WMF formats easy capture of screenshots to PNG files print now! function to bypass printer setup and calibration background picture shapes -- support for PNG, JPG, GIF image formats background picture shapes ...
... does anyone know of an alternative glue that sticks well but allows adjustment before it goes off?) that did not swell the paper and sticks like the proverbial. This time I've stuck it directly to the baseboard (another departure from before when I used 3mm cork) which is 12mm MDF sealed with a coat of paint to prevent/ reduce swelling and shrinkage which in turn is mounted on four 90mm high supports which in turn sit on the layout sub base(18mm ply). Why did I go for such a complicated set up? My need/ requirement here is to have the layout broken up into sections 3' to 4' long so that I can build each section in the comfort of our main living room and so that if there any problems in the future I can remove a section from the main layout in the shed and bring it into the house to work on. Luckily for me I'm married to a pretty tolerant woman who still seems to be very fond of me despite my rather eccentric hobby. Maybe its something to do ...
... .. Printing off 30 odd pages and one page only has the rails missing and only shows the sleepers. I've tried most obvious things but cannot find the error. Any ideas? 479_170322_540000000.jpg posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:15 from: Jim Guthrie Gordon, I could be facetious and say "scrap thieves". But I note that there is also a rail missing on the adjacent page. Jim. posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:30 from: Martin Wynne Hi Gordon, That's very odd. There are no settings which can apply to an individual printed page. All settings are based on individual templates, or apply to all the pages. However, as Jim says it seems to be more than one page, and on the second page there is just a tiny fragment of rail showing at the top left. The settings to remove rails from a template are at do> omit rails and joint marks menu item. Anything there for these templates? Are the rails showing on the screen? regards, Martin. posted: 17 Jun ...
... : Paul Boyd Brian Lewis wrote: === 1. I cannot create a signature and presumably then find a way of inserting it automatically. My preferred signature is === The signature is the easy bit: Create a text file with Notepad containing your signature. I think you need to stick the http bit in, but a bit of experimentation will sort that. Once you have saved the text file somewhere safe, you then need to tell T'Bird to use it. From the Tools menu, go to Account Settings. Click on the account you want your signature attached to, and on the right-hand side of the pane you will see an "Attach this signature:" tick box. Tick it, then browse to the file you saved. You need to do this for each account. It also means it's easy to have a different signature for each account if you want. === 2. I would prefer the date and time was shown fully, i.e. giving the day- Monday, Tuesday, etc ...
... type question each time doing it this way. And, of course, the template name moves back to the default and needs to be repositioned again after the store. Is there a way to change the timber specs for an entire pad at one time? At present I'm deleting each template to the control, fixing it, then storing it back. Not too bad for only three templates on the page, but it strikes me there has got to be a better way. At very least I would expect some way to set the "current defaults" on the control template, then apply those to each of the stored templates in turn. I haven't found a way to do this that works. I'm having a printing problem as well. I'm using a Xerox Document Centre 440PS at work at the moment. It's been calibrated. It prints properly, but print area seems to be running into the "no print margin" of the printer. That is, looking at a printed page oriented so margin writing is proper side up (i.e, ...
9. File preview
... easy but if you could take a look, I would be grateful. Cheers Godders posted: 14 Feb 2014 20:18 from: Martin Wynne Hi Godders, How would you see this working? I can't see an obvious way to see what's in a .box file without loading it. For new .box files we could perhaps include a screenshot of the trackpad, or a list of the storage box contents, or both, in the .box file for use by a "preview" function. And of course you can always set a meaningful file name, or put them in meaningful folders. But none of that is much help if you already have hundreds of anonymous .box files. A possible new function would be "next file" in which Templot reloads the next file in a folder on a single click or keypress? regards, Martin. posted: 14 Feb 2014 21:01 from: Godfrey Earnshaw Hi Martin, Thank you for your rapid response. I will try and describe what to me would be useful. If I use Windows explorer ...
... . The diagonal-road follows the initial curve of the turnout-road (or can in some cases be straight across curved main roads). Curviform ladders are comprised of curviform diamond-crossings, and are often used to form running-line double-junctions, and to gain access across running lines to goods yards, engine sheds and industrial sidings. Slips are less common in curviform ladders because of the usually shorter crossing angles. The type of ladder track is determined by the type of V-crossing which is currently set for the control template. To change it, cancel the ladder and first click the template> V-crossing options... menu item. Change the V-crossing type as required. Then click the tools> make ladder crossover menu item again. For a regular ladder set a regular or generic V-crossing. For a curviform ladder set a curviform V-crossing. N.B. If you wish to create a curviform ladder from an initial template having a regular or generic type of V-crossing, do ...
... chairs before you can shove the timbers otherwise the rail will get slewed over? posted: 30 Jul 2018 18:01 from: Martin Wynne Thanks Rob. The 3D printing stuff is going over my head too. I'm still writing DXF code the same way I did in the 1980s. That's why I started this separate topic to cover the track design aspects. Here is something that will be possible. If you omit a timber when shoving, its chairs go too, as you can see. However, if instead you set its length to zero, making it invisible, its chairs remain unsupported on the rails. Adjacent long timbers can then be extended under them: 2_301256_010000000.png With the timbers invisible, shoving them along will be a way to slide the chairs along the rails to any desired position. 2_301320_510000000.png UPDATE: We now have the keys, and outer jaws on the S1 chairs. Gold-plated: 2_061704_070000000.png Notice the random key positions (and screw heads). There should be a corner radius around the top of the jaw, but ...
... track. I then try to modify one of the turnouts to get an easier radius, but then another turnout appears at random on the overall plan. I then find I can't print the original crossover, despite going into the template store; there's no print box shown. Hi Roy, I'm sorry you are having trouble. A crossover is made up from two separate turnout templates. Printing a curved one is really quite straightforward: 1. Start with a suitable size for the first turnout. Use the F5 mouse action to set the size. Curved turnouts usually need to be longer than straight ones to keep the radius within bounds. C-10 is a good size to try. 2. Set the required radius in the running line, using the F6 mouse action. See this starter video showing F5 and F6 mouse actions being used to print a curved C-10 turnout: http://www.templot.com/martweb/videos/flash/startup/startup_em.html To make a crossover from it: 3. Set a suitable track spacing according to ...
... topic: 2034 Custom timbering of turnouts posted: 27 Jul 2012 13:25 from: Alan McMillan Hi all I've just created a new custom plain track setting for Swiss Federal Railways CWR and it's just dandy. However when I insert a turnout in the new plain track or use new template (quick set), it comes up with default (presumably GWR) sleeper spacings although the lengths appear to agree with the settings I've defined. Is there any way to get turnouts to take up the spacing settings I've defined by default rather that have me do an awful lot of timber shoving afterwards? Regards Alan Last edited on 27 Jul 2012 13:25 by Alan McMillan posted: 27 Jul 2012 13:55 from: Martin Wynne Alan McMillan wrote: Is there any way to get turnouts to take up the spacing settings I've defined by default rather that have me do an awful lot of timber shoving afterwards? Hi Alan, Yes, use the modify on rebuild function. 1. Have the required settings in the control template. 2. Put ...
... . In theory PNG also offers transparency, but not all programs support transparent PNGs. The objects can be stretched/deformed to any scale and rotated as required on the sketchboard, so there is no need to make a fixed scale. All that is need is a note somewhere of the design size. The best place for this is probably in the file name where it 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 ...
15. Pug version 091c
... You can if you wish at the same time roll the wheel to zoom the pad simultaneously while moving it. Note however that zooming cancels any mouse action in force, so if you are in a mouse action, take care not to inadvertently roll the wheel while drag panning. Note that these are conventional button-down drags, unlike the click-move-click CAD-style action for the mouse actions. If you have a programmable mouse, for any of the above to work you need to have the wheel button set for "Middle Click" or "AutoScroll". All the other panning functions are retained, which means that there are now a dozen different ways to pan across the pad, but in testing I've found this new way to be very convenient. The left button is the more intuitive, but the middle button gives you greater flexibility. (The previous wheel panning functions remain available if you prefer -- hold down the CTRL key for that, and click the wheel button to change direction from horizontal to vertical movement. ...
... priority, both for me at a mid level and for new users. User inputs such as at Real>Rails>Rail Section Data are very nice but some of the other menus can be tedious. Take the configuration of a printed track plan for example. The output menu is very comprehensive in what it offers but some of the menu items such as Output Drawing Option require going into and out of menu items. Surely easier for the user to be presented with a window containing boxes/buttons for each option so you set each one without having to drop back down through the menus. The happy users of Templot realise the tens of thousands of hours you have put into it's design and really do appreciate it. My hamfisted attempts at making small space layouts would be totally lost without it. BTW Is there a reason( other than your many hours to code it) why printed output can't yet contain chairs? Regards Rob posted: 13 Mar 2015 00:28 from: Trevor Walling Rob Manchester wrote: Martin Wynne wrote I would love to ...
... topic: 3064 Custom gauge scale setting posted: 15 Aug 2017 11:44 from: rynd2it Hi I could not find a setting for O-16.5 (sometimes called On30) so I created something useable under "custom a" and named it "O -narrow". However, on loading TEMPLOT later this option was not in the list and I had to recreate it. I can't find how to save my custom setting- I'll bet its obvious but I have searched to no avail Thanks David posted: 15 Aug 2017 12:48 from: Martin Wynne rynd2it wrote: Hi I could not find a setting for O-16.5 (sometimes called On30) so I created something useable under "custom a" and named it "O -narrow". However, on loading TEMPLOT later this option was not in the list and I had to recreate it. I can't find how to save my custom setting- I'll bet its obvious but I have searched to no avail Hi David, There are no narrow-gauge settings in the ...
... from: Martin Wynne Hayfield wrote: Anyway I scanned each sheet (after putting a 6" scale on each sheet) and then started to add them to a plan, I used scanned model track plan, which was fine. But the scans load to about 60% of the size. Its not too much of a problem re-scaling them, but what am I doing wrong please Hi John, Sorry about the delay in replying to this. For the scans to load at the correct size there are 3 required settings: 1. if you have scanned a prototype map or track plan you must set the model gauge/scale before beginning. This doesn't apply for a layout track plan or a rail-rubbing, as in this case. 2. you must enter the correct DPI setting used on the scanner. 3. you must enter the correct scale for the track plan you were scanning. If it was an actual rail-rubbing, the correct scale would be 1:1, so difficult to get wrong. Obviously I ...
... 2) I have said this before but once you have covered the absolute basics and brought people round to the Templot style I think it is important to give users some specific track design methods/worked examples as many may come to Templot( as Peco users wanting better prototype fidelity) and just want to design a single plan and then move off and build it only returning to Templot when the next new layout is due. The basic methods of making: Double track oval with passing loop and siding( like a Triang train set with a couple of track extension packs) Terminus station design- Minories type with double track/engine release/parels bay. Flowing single track terminus- aligning templates over a pre-drawn Template to ensure it flows nicely. Important, I think, to stress that Templot is intended to be( or is capable of being) used in other ways than just snapping single track items together or designing single templates. Rob posted: 28 Jan 2018 22:06 from: Martin Wynne Phil O wrote: I think it ...
... topic: 370 Save settings for printing posted: 16 Mar 2008 00:29 from: Simon Dunkley I am generally happy with the default settings for printing out whole templates, but I also like to use templot for layout design purposes, and print out to a much reduced scale, typically 1:16 or 1:20, to get an overall idea of how the scheme will look. When I do this, I do not want or need track centre lines, or timbers which are both easy to switch off, but I like to do things such as show the grid as a dotted black line, have the transition curve markers in white, background shapes (in my case, putative baseboard outlines) in black and so on. Many of these require repeated trips to the pint menu. Would it be possble to save the printing settings, with an option to restore all settings, so that I can simply re-load a file without having to go through several mouse clicks eah time? Simon posted: 16 Mar 2008 01 ...
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