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121. 3 way point help
... I worked out for myself years ago, nowadays I know there is supposed to be an easier way to do it but it's quicker for me to carry on doing it the old way. Chairs? not yet really. I expect Martin will advise further. posted: 12 Dec 2016 15:05 from: gibbard d ok cheers for the clearance advise. will changing the second turnout to an A-6 affect the exit positions on the turnout, meaning ill have to adjust and redraw the attaching tracks or does it just shorten the length of the blades/point? i should add the turnout has been copied off a larger layout design so i have the one turnout instead of 7/8, that's the reason I'm worried about the entrance and exit positions moving posted: 12 Dec 2016 23:59 from: Tony W If you wipe the second template to the control and move the peg to the Ctrl 4 position, you can adjust the switch type without the crossing moving. I have done this and attached the A-6 version box ...
... 600mm radius, and you are working at 4mm/ft. So what you should have said is that you were working with 150ft radius curves. Or even 2.1/2 chains radius. A chain is 66ft, so that would be 165ft. If you are making turnouts at that sort of radius, I suggest using a 9ft straight switch with maybe 1:4.5 crossing angle -- which gives a radius in 00 gauge of 633mm, or 746mm in P4 (if curviform or generic). In P4 therefore you might shorten it to 1:4, giving a radius of 588mm. On the prototype turnouts as short as these would only ever be found in cramped yards and sidings, not on running lines. Your challenge now is to do it all again, but this time on a through curve. Keep an eye on the radii when curving turnouts, you may very likely need to use longer ones on a curve. p.s. don't bother with the slip video, it's all out-of-date. What you do now is ...
... custom switch: 2_091700_410000000.png To customize the timbering in the rest of the turnout you can use the real> timbering> timbering data... and real> V-crossing options> customize V-crossing> menu items: timber_spacings_899x436.png For more information on the above, see: http://templot.com/companion/timber_spacings_overview.php The shove timber functions are intended to create modifications specific to a single template, rather than to replicate standard prototype designs*. For example if 2 timbers conflict in a junction, or a timber needs shortening to clear an obstruction, or lengthening to carry rodding cranks.* but in some cases they may be the only way of doing that. To save and re-use any setting in Templot you need to store a template containing it. Usually marked as a library template to remind you why it's in the file, program> store as library template menu item. It can then be copied onto the trackpad before being modified for the next track location, or some settings can be obtained from it -- such as ...
... switch close into the back of a V-crossing like this, some ingenuity in the timbering is needed. In this case you have a turnout with a regular type V-crossing, so you can lock the V-crossing in place (CTRL+ 4 peg position) and then change the lead length of the turnout by adjusting the crossing entry straight a little. By such means you can get the switch timbers interlaced between the crossing timbers on the turnout above to avoid the conflicts. Then a bit of skewing or shortening of those timbers (without losing the special chair positions on them) should provide a usable result: 2_151045_360000001.png Here you have replaced a B-6 turnout with a longer B-8 turnout, but without making extra space for it. The result is that you have lost the minimum 6ft way (see the orange spacing-ring tool), and you have a severe misalignment at a template boundary: 2_151045_360000000.png The turnout in that screenshot appears to be forming a crossover between running lines. In such a situation it would ...
125. Gauges for 0-MF
... holes. I would still have had to drill the holes out anyway as I found that they needed to be 2.1mm in diameter to take 2mm rod. I'll make allowance for that in the amendment. Anyway I have checked that they work OK, I am just not certain whether or not making them to just fit the rail head so that they can slide along the track is a good thing or a more positive fit is better. At the moment I have gone for the more positive fit but obviously the studs can be shortened to suit if necessary. Anyway I have a stock of about 20, which should keep me going for some time. Last edited on 1 Jan 2019 15:18 by Stephen Freeman posted: 1 Jan 2019 15:41 from: Nigel Brown Me, I'd be tempted to go for the slightly looser fit on the rail. If the chair grips the rail it can be quite difficult to feed the rail through, and I think there's more likelyhood of stresses and damaging the chair. Nigel posted: 1 Jan 2019 ...
126. Scissors Crossover
... attach_2783_3361_scissors_2018_12 _03_1521_12.box 161 posted: 3 Dec 2018 17:20 from: Martin Wynne Hi Richard, A type 1 scissors (with the diamond V-crossings in the turnout curves) needs quite a bit of faff. I will post some notes soon. A type 2 scissors is much easier: Change to B-9 regular instead of B-8 generic (I used CLM angles as your original): 2_031147_180000000.png Use SHIFT+ F11 mouse action to move the crossing entry straight back clear of the vees. This will also shorten the turnout back to a similar length to the B-8. Then tick this option before mirroring the other turnouts: 2_031205_480000000.png Note that this setting is template-specific, and is lost if you copy other background templates to the control. The full mirror sequence to create the other turnouts is: CTRL+ 5, CTRL+ NUMPAD-8, make mirror on peg, make crossover, CTRL+ NUMPAD-8, make mirror on peg. (After that, you may discover that you didn't move the crossing ...
127. Barry slip
... , Put the peg on CTRL-6 before making any other changes, otherwise you will lose the alignment between the two diverging roads. (I have now edited my previous post.) For 1:6 turnouts with straight switches you will probably want to change to 9ft or 10ft switches rather than 12ft. Otherwise the turnout radius will be very tight. 12ft is probably ok at 1:7. Blank the turnouts up to the switch toe, at do> blank up to switch toe menu item. If necessary, shorten the check rail to span only 4 timbers, to make more space for the switch tips, real> adjust check rails menu item. cheers, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Baffled beginners> Barry slip 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 ...
... with little obvious progress. Any help would be most appreciated. Regards Geoff posted: 26 Mar 2019 17:10 from: Martin Wynne Hi Geoff, Welcome to Templot Club. I'm not entirely sure what you mean, something like this perhaps? 2_261206_010000000.png If not, please can you attach your .box file or post a screenshot? Is the tandem double-sided or single-sided? What are the turnout crossing angles? You can change the angle on the end of a check rail by adjusting the flare length (before shortening it). cheers, Martin. posted: 26 Mar 2019 17:30 from: Geoff Lines Hello Martin -- thanks for your speedy reply. I'm afraid it's more complicated than that. The running line is intertwined with the V crossings. Initially, I'd like to send a screen shot but have no idea how to do that. Any pointers? Regards Geoff posted: 26 Mar 2019 17:42 from: Geoff Lines Sorry Martin, should have said that it was supposed to be a single-sided tandem ...
129. Catch Points
... was left with this Any good? Hi Alan, Templot is a tool to use any way you wish. Overlaying partial templates is one way to create a set of catch points -- and the only way if it falls within other pointwork. But overlaying on plain track isn't a good idea, because the timbering will be plain sleepers instead of wider timbers, and they will be at the wrong spacings for the special switch chairs. For a simple stand-alone set of catch points, all you need to do is shorten a turnout to the stock rail joints, and there is a pre-set function to do that. Most model catch points use short 9ft or "A" switches, but you can use any size you wish if you have space: 2_060840_100000000.png If you use the "shift& join" functions, they will snap onto the end of the catch points in the usual way, or you can use the CTRL-9 functions. There is a page about catch points in the Companion at: http:// ...
... lower half of a "H" but widened about three times, so the horizontal bar is three times wider. They are around 45 degrees to the plan and i can't seem to get rid of them or even highlight them. Any ideas, they're not a real problem just annoying. Attachment: attach_2862_3472_intermodal1-67.box 114 posted: 2 Aug 2019 02:01 from: Martin Wynne Hi Tom, Thanks for posting the .box file. They are transition zone end markers from the two templates to the lower left. You have shortened those templates to terminate within their transition zones. You can update the extent of the transition zone to match the template length by clicking the geometry> transition curve> normalize transition menu item: 2_012048_390000000.png More explanation of transition curves on this page: http://templot.com/companion/transition_curves.php p.s. your storage box contains 190 templates of which 155 are unused. You can remove them all if no longer wanted by clicking the box> delete unused templates menu item on the storage box. Unused templates are created when you ...
... SHIFT+ F8 to rotate 180 degrees first. 3. There is a new option to omit the rolled-in sleepers when rolling rails (CTRL+ F4). In fact it is now the default: 2_092225_130000000.png One of the most frequent uses of the roll rails function is to provide a change of radius in a V-crossing exit. Here the vee splice rail would normally be curved, for both regular and curviform V-crossings, at a radius determined by the turnout geometry. But if the turnout exit is shortened back (CTRL+ F12), a length of plain branch track can be pegged on to TEXITP having any other radius you like, in this case dead straight. Then rolling the rails lets you re-instate the vee rail joint position, and removes the sleepers overlaid on the crossing timbers without the need to shove them individually. For the existing roll rails to match function on a background template, the rolled-in sleepers are put back on, as before. cheers, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may ...
... P4, with very sharp radii. Also not very prototypical, for an industrial yard. Loose-heel switches are much more likely (you don't have to actually build them with loose heels -- i.e. pivoted switch blades -- if you don't want to). I suggest for each turnout: 1. put the peg on CTRL-4 to preserve the exit alignments. 2. in template> switch settings... change to a 9ft straight switch. This will ease the radius a bit, and also shorten the turnout a bit, if you are tight for space. But if you can make space, it would be much better to lengthen the crossing angles to 1:5. 9ft-5 turnouts will have a larger radius allowing a wider range of rolling stock in P4, without taking up too much extra space. That change of angle will need quite a lot of re-drawing though. You also have some B-5.28 turnouts, which is a very strange size indeed! if you want something longer than ...
... . The term "trap" refers to the function of a set of points, a term used by the signalling and operating departments. In bullhead days the physical object was generally known in the Permanent Way departments as "catch points" and is shown as such on the manufacturing drawings. See for example the whole chapter on "catch points" in David Smith's GWR book: cvr_track_200px.jpg http://gwsg.org.uk/GWSG_Publications.html Templot is about track, and defaults to bullhead, so that is the term we use: 2_260347_230000000.png which shortens a turnout template to contain only the switch. The "trap points" function may be implemented as a set of catch points, or may be a full turnout or slip leading to a spur or sand drag. It's interesting to refer to the PWI handbooks "British Railway Track": BRT3 (1964 edition) refers to the physical object as "catch points" and "catch roads" throughout. See p.154, and the same wording in earlier editions. So clearly it was not only GWR practice at that date ...
134. Saunderton
... honed on using excel and powerpoint, is to look at menus and to try and see what may be of use to me. There were a couple of things I found that looked useful. Firstly, the "make double track" function seemed to draw a parallel set of tracks. I then found that if I roamed a turnout to the right location on the up line, added a branch towards the siding, I could use the peg/align tool to make a diamond crossing at the intersection. I then manually shortened the plain track to the end of the crossing where it looked reasonably aligned to me. Is that the right way of using that function (albeit I can see the ladder crossing method is simpler). With the ladder, I'd struggled to get the join to the next turnout aligned hence I tried an alternative. Looking at my plan from yesterday, now attached, I think my siding may be too close to my main line? Also, I note that some of my point sizes are slightly different to the ones ...
135. Scissors crossovers
... crossings is to temporarily peg a couple of lengths of plain track onto the CESP positions: 2_290821_410000000.png Then adjust the radius in them to fit the opposite CESP positions: 2_290822_510000000.png This will average out the difference in radius between the inner and outer main lines. After which you can do peg/align tools> make diamond-crossing at intersection to create the K-crossings, and then delete the original plain track. The diamond-crossing won't fit the V-crossings because this is a type 1 scissors, so you can shorten the half-diamonds back (F4) to just the K-crossings. Then the final tidying up is to split out the partial templates, and shove the timbering. (For a type 2 scissors, this method would also create the V-crossings.) cheers, Martin. posted: 30 May 2020 06:58 from: Graham Long Thanks for your help. I am a rank begginer and will have to study and make sense of your explanations. I was only making the templates at this stage to ...
... B7 R/H 4TB B8L P4 Turnout Base – Plastic – B8 L/H 4TB B8R P4 Turnout Base – Plastic – B8 R/H 4TB C10L P4 Turnout Base – Plastic – C10 L/H 4TB C10R P4 Turnout Base – Plastic – C10 R/H 4TB DIAM P4 Turnout Base – Plastic – Diamond 1:8 4TB DS8 P4 Turnout Base – Plastic – Double Slip 1:8 4TB SS8 P4 Turnout Base – Plastic – Single Slip 1:8 [size=For EM gauge you will have to shorten the diamond and slip crossings, the turnouts may come in a fraction too long but no real issues] [size=] [size=I think they are only available from the Scalefour society] posted: 13 Sep 2020 11:17 from: Hayfield 982_130612_430000000.jpg I hope this shows the chair positions a bit clearer, on the B switch the next timber on the right has S1 chairs on the main (straight road) and L1 (bridge) on the turnout road so tot to bottom S1 L1 S1 L1 posted ...
... a Windows compliant 2D CAD program that would lose completed circles behind the drawing surface. They were still there you just couldn't see them. 1. If you want a 16 inch Macbook Pro then yes it is Intel or nothing at the moment. That comes with it's own set of problems due to the diffident cooling design of the laptop and the over heating of both the CPU and the GPU. There are ways around this but you need an external GPU to run external screens with out the fans screaming and the heat issues shortening the life of your expensive purchase. 2. Most of your native Apple stuff that was running in Catalina should run in Big Sur. But as usual there are always surprises. See Apple's Bootcamp problems above. 6. Apple doesn't really encourage firing OS running on their machines. There are ways to build machines that run Apple as well as Linux and Windows but that is not really a way forward for most people. 5. Not using Crossover I can't really be definitive but if Parallels works then so should Crossover. ...
... scruff video: http://flashbackconnect.com/Default.aspx?id=HKcLtnVOsx2_-aQm9v1-KA2 (The same method will be used to set the position of droppers and isolation gaps which I'm working on.) It will now be possible to put the joints in the right place at crossovers, to preserve the standard length of vee rails on each turnout. This quite often results in the joint being behind the check rails, but avoids having a joint between the special crossing chairs if the vee splice rail was to be shortened instead: 2_091654_040000000.png In 227a coming soon. cheers, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> rail joints on V-crossing exits 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 ...
... and 51 sleepers. cheers, Martin. posted: 18 Jul 2020 22:47 from: Alan McMillan At the risk of repeating myself, thanks again Martin. All the Best Alan posted: 19 Jul 2020 09:38 from: Alan McMillan Hi Martin I've created the panel with the settings you gave and the sleeper spacings are fine, but the end rail joint doesn't appear. I've used F4 to roll this out and it never appears. There is also a gap between one panel's sleepers and the next. I've tried shortening the rails in the custom data to make them line up with the last sleeper but that doesn't seem to work either. The rail length entered doesn't seem to be picked up by the program and so no end rail joint even though the first one is there. 412_190434_400000000.jpg Could this be a bug? Regards Alan posted: 19 Jul 2020 10:42 from: Martin Wynne Hi Alan, Please could you post your box file? edit: see below cheers, Martin. posted: 19 Jul 2020 11:39 from ...
140. Under Construction
... posted: 1 Nov 2020 06:11 from: Andrew Barrowman I'm not sure what to do about the turnouts for the storage loops at the back of the layout. They will be "off stage" and constructed from Code 72 FB rail on copper-laminate. They will be functional but not pretty. I would like to maximize the lengths of the loops without compromising reliability by making the turnouts too severe. Currently they are all B V-6 which seemed like a reasonable trade-off. Should I try to shorten them to extend the lengths of the loops or should I go the other way? The traffic won't be going at high-speed (I hope) (The facing turnouts may actually be "frogless" although that remains to be seen.) Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Under Construction about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important ...
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