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... way before, and to be truthful I never bothered to look at the file dimensions since I considered them all to be within the bounds of the requirement. However, from what you say, does give me some concern in the event that I produce a drawing of a very large building that might exceed the required pixel dimensions, such as a multi-road, multi-parking engine shed, I shall have to watch that. But in the event, I may be able to draw to the usual scale and then shrink down the drawing before I save to file, my only concern here is shrinking to a precise scale size, but we will cross that bridge when the time comes. I must admit it's an education to even begin to be able to understand your dilemmas and problems with, in particular, all the work you put in. How you arrive at that in Visio is up to you, but the results are excellent so please carry on. I will carry on as you suggest, to some degree, I am enjoying ...
... filament-printed detail could never be a patch on injection moulding, and that home filament printing can't match other 3D printing methods such as cured resin. But I was hoping for something a bit better than I was seeing. So I started thinking about the many printing settings which I might need to change. Looking at the chairs again today, I'm not so sure. I don't really believe that the chairs could have improved with keeping for 24 hours, but it is not impossible. I do know that injection moulded parts shrink after injection, and continue to shrink for days or weeks afterwards, unless moulded at very high pressures. These chairs were moulded at zero pressure, so it's quite likely that they would shrink and change quite a lot with time. Close-up photography can be so cruel to models, so I thought I would set up something more akin to normal layout viewing distance and photos. This is 7mm/ft scale: 2_172227_190000000.jpg I changed to grey-scale to hide the coloured sleepers. The track in the background is ...
... am not happy with any of the results I have achieved so far. Does anyone have any suggestions? Attachment: attach_2216_2829_group_2016_01_21 _1717_40.box 282 posted: 22 Jan 2016 10:15 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, So far so good, I think. Areas of concern: Nothing to do with Templot but I think you may have to be very careful when you come to ballasting. Any water based adhesive (i.e. PVA or Copydex) could cause you great problems as they are likely to affect the wallpaper, which could well shrink on drying resulting in distortion and possibly worse (same goes for any templates left in situ). as to the 1mm flangeway, I'm sure others will point out that the critical measurement is not the actual check-rail flangeway width itself but the distance from the inner face of the check-rail to the inner face of the crossing wing-rail. posted: 22 Jan 2016 11:06 from: PeterD Borg-Rail wrote: Hi, So far so good, I think. Areas of concern: Nothing ...
... easier to cut a half chair off and fit the check rail using a check rail gauge. I will post a couple of photos which will explain the method. Sorry for those who prefer more traditional methods of turnout construction and feel I may be having a go at their methods, but the C&L/ Exactoscale and Peco plastic chairs have proved themselves now for over 30 years. Just use the correct solvents. Word of caution over the thin plastic sleepers/timbers, they curl up due to the solvent drying and shrinking on one side only. Either stick them down well or use either ply or the thicker plastic sleepers posted: 26 May 2015 22:19 from: Rob Manchester Hi John, You mentioned about the thinner plastic sleepers curling after having solvent applied on one side. Is this noticeable within a short period of time or does the effect lay dormant and hit you later? I was thinking of the situation where you were building track at the workbench and then laying it onto the layout boards in sections. Rob posted: 26 ...
... sleepers going under gauge after a few years due to using plywood sleepers. Is this something that happens alot? I am making mine to 4-SF so I am hoping it has a little more leniency compared to P4 as I don't want to have to attempt to fix issues with my track after a few years as i'm already going through too many just trying to thread them on lol Cheers posted: 1 May 2018 20:12 from: Martin Wynne Hi Michael, Some confusion there? Injection-moulded plastic sleepers do shrink with age, unless moulded at very high pressure. Plywood doesn't. However it does vary with humidity, expanding in moist conditions and shrinking in dry weather. Unless you start with damp ply timbers, you won't have any problems. It may be worth storing them somewhere warm and dry for a few days before using them. The normal variations won't have any effect on 4-SF. There are lots of layouts with ply timbers, still going strong after many years. Including P4. cheers, Martin. posted: ...
... to be mounted so that they clear the end plates of the board (22mm softwood). I am struggling to get a layout that has both point tie bars on the board. I want to try to keep to a minimum 6' radius and accept that the down main (Outer track) will have a switched frog. I have tried to use the command 'create simple crossover TS'. This creates another nice Xover with a 1:22.5 point which is far to long on the inner track. If I then shrink the point with F5 the curvature goes haywire and I can't get it to match up. Can anyone help. idealy the tie bars need to be about 50mm from the end of the board. Jamie Guest Attachment: attach_742_948_green_ayre_10_02_28 _1445_33.bgs 379 Last edited on 1 Mar 2010 08:53 by Jamie92208 posted: 2 Mar 2010 10:29 from: Jamie92208 Jamie92208 wrote: 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 ...
... ' available...or move one of the buses out of the bus garage, we also have 40'. posted: 7 Sep 2020 19:54 from: Martin Wynne Jim Guthrie wrote: Maybe in the next version of Templot you could include a guaranteed Lottery number generator to pay for building these big layouts, and for the buildings needed to house them. Hi Jim, Roy, If I had a means to predict the lottery numbers, I doubt I would be sitting here writing this. Don't forget it's easy to shrink the length of a map in Templot, and you can go a long way without making it unbuildable. It just requires a rotation first so that the tracks are mostly aligned horizontal (or vertical) to preserve the track gauge and spacings approximately, when shrunk lengthwise. You can also use the wrap functions to curve a long straight map around the walls of a room. Here I shrunk Roy's map lengthwise to fit in 24ft to the road bridge: 2_071444_320000000.png And then planning over it, even after shrinking this double junction ...
... /thinking on this. As a example i made .box file, to give an idea, i will also try to upload a picture of what kind of jigs i have and make to make my tracks. The squire box made of n scale track is the storage shed for length of trains. Best and thanks in advance Attachment: attach_3132_3739_quick_sample.box 60 Last edited on 15 Aug 2020 18:26 by Igor Kurgan posted: 15 Aug 2020 11:44 from: Igor Kurgan 3669_150639_430000000.jpg 3669_150640_560000000.jpg The fixed lengths are a bit crucial for shrinking/expanding of the alu strip with the temperature range, and the curve work. Thanks in advance, best. Last edited on 15 Aug 2020 11:46 by Igor Kurgan posted: 15 Aug 2020 14:30 from: Martin Wynne Igor Kurgan wrote: Best Martin,That was the function that give me the idea but was not entirely what i meant. A sort of drop down menu or extra toolbar directly for use. Hi Igor, What you are looking for is the library templates function. You can ...
... decent printed copy of a thread. Even the "printer friendly" version often yields an image that is too wide to fit on landscape US paper. I often have to resort to hand copy-and-pasting the articles into a Word document and printing from there. Hi Joe, This is down to your browser settings, not the web page itself. You didn't say which browser you are using. Assuming it's Firefox, click the File> Page Setup... menu item: firefox_print_setup.png and tick the box for Shrink To Fit Page Width. The page will then be scaled down to fit the images within the margins (if you use the Printer friendly option on the forum). Probably the margin settings on the other tab could be reduced too. If the new forum s/w version better supports "printer friendly" printing, then it might be worth considering. It now seems that the new forum software will be available only to users who host their forum with the software company. We aren't doing that, so no go ...
... the top row of the pad, and you can also zoom on the keyboard or the mouse wheel. The option to cycle to and fro through recent views (091c) is available as SHIFT+ ROLL on the mouse wheel, even when the zoom/pan window is hidden. There is a trick you can use for the information panel. expand it. Click the edit button. The data now appears (and will be continuously updated) in a separate window which can be dragged outside the pad. You can then shrink or hide the information panel without losing the data. regards, Martin. posted: 10 Apr 2008 23:37 from: jeckardt Martin Wynne wrote: There is a trick you can use for the information panel. expand it. Click the edit button. The data now appears (and will be continuously updated) in a separate window which can be dragged outside the pad. You can then shrink or hide the information panel without losing the data. Now THAT is a cute trick! I'll remember that one. Thanks ...
... used as a guide in Templot. The reduced version which you have captured there is not going to be much help for detailed track planning. The various resampling algorithms such as Lanczos3, Triangle, Mitchell, Bspline, Bell, etc. are usually available in a graphics editor program. For example they can be selected under the Resize/Resample function in the excellent free IrfanView program. However, the differences between them are hardly noticeable for our purposes. The big difference is between using any of them, and a simple pixel shrink/stretch. But you don't need a separate program because the two options are available on the sketchboard, renamed for Templot as design quality (fast -- simple pixel shrink/stretch), and display quality (slow -- Lanczos3 resampling). More about using these options at: topic 1928 I tried adding your image (original size from the Image Gallery) to the sketchboard. I set the image width for 4mm scale to 12500mm, which was a quick guess. It's somewhere near, as this overlaid B6 ...
... too many different transition effects. I was trying different ones to see which I prefer. That video was just a quick try-out of the AV software. Next time I will be more selective in the photos, add some captions, keep the transitions simple, and find some better music (royalty-free). What size screen are you viewing it on? At what dpi? it's a battle of wits with the page script to keep it displayed dot-for-dot on all desktop screens, while still shrinking on mobiles. cheers, Martin. posted: 6 Nov 2018 22:46 from: Martin Wynne Hi Phil, A couple more shots of the Buck gear at Belan locks (28th June 2015). With dinky-toy tractor on bridge: 2_061742_450000001.jpg 2_061742_450000000.jpg cheers, Martin. posted: 6 Nov 2018 23:29 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Thanks for the extra Buxton pic, don't remember it. Two Hillman Minx's and a Hillman Hunteron the front row, you could have waited for a Rapier to replace ...
13. glueing track
... in retrospect) diagonally braced for rigidity and the surface layer was 10mm Sundeala with 1/8th cork and originally card over the top for the track formation. Sundeala board needs a lot of support or it sags. I also became convinced that in the winter when the humidity was higher the Sundeala absorbed moisure and expanded slightly whereas the track contracted due to the lower temperatures and in summer the reverse happened. Time of course can show up any number of unexpected and unwanted effects. For instance we are also finding that plasticard can shrink over time, presumably as the plasticizers evaporate and things no longer fit as well as they did, indeed the base of our plastic sector plate that was screwed to the baseboard has split in a couple of places in between the fixing screws and the actual moving part that was a close fit is now about a mm short. I guess not everyone has the same layout for 30 plus years and it is still not finished! Like you I was very interested in Martin's comments re Adavoyle. I too was most impressed the ...
... to note are: 1. You must align the grid only over features which are rectangular and all in the same plane. 2. Before clicking Transform you must select Corrective mode (which is not the default). After transforming, the aspect ratio will almost certainly be wrong. You need to scale the image to the known overall dimensions. Templot makes a convenient way to do this with a transformed image. You can display the image as a Picture Shape with the grid lines in front of it. Then enlarge or shrink it with the mouse until known dimensions on the original match the grid. You can set the grid to any convenient spacing in mm or inches. if you want to print it, Templot's printer calibration function ensures maximum accuracy. While displayed in Templot you can pick off any dimensions you want, including diagonals, by clicking with the mouse or by displaying the ruler tool. By zooming in you can do this to any desired accuracy. There is more about using Templot to extract dimensions from drawings and photographs at: http ...
... pages which don't contain any track. I was surprised to find the image is only 1274 x 499 dots -- I was expecting some massive file to be causing the problem. It prints full-size here with no problems or delays at all. Which is exactly as expected for such an image size. I can only conclude that it is a limitation in your printer driver. I don't have much experience of using laser printers, generally ink-jets are better for accurate results because lasers heat the paper causing it to shrink and distort a fraction. I suggest going online to find an updated driver, or maybe trying the generic driver from Windows instead of the Brother driver. As it stands your scan is a stark black and white which for me is uncomfortable to work over for track planning (and will also use a lot of ink when printed). I've attached below a greyed version which you might prefer. On the modify shape tab, click the "new image from:" file button. Sorry I can't be more help, ...
... never claimed or set out to teach about trackwork and I don't know how to do it or where to begin. The original idea of Templot was that it would be a tool for modellers who already know what they are doing. regards, Martin. posted: 18 Jan 2018 11:28 from: Tony W Martin Wyne wrote. "The original idea of Templot was that it would be a tool for modellers who already know what they are doing." Precisely so, but I fear that that select band is a shrinking percentage of the total user base. Most Templot users seem to come at things from the opposite end. My interest in trackwork came from my observations of the real thing and the realisation that your typical propriety offering fell some way short of this. The Protofour series of articles published in the Model Railway Constructor in 1967 were a revelation to me and changed my expectations of what was achievable forever. A valuable reference work if you can get your hands on a copy. It was and hopefully still is your hobby. This ...
17. scaling buttons
... topic: 2488 scaling buttons posted: 17 Jul 2014 14:32 from: Martin Wynne From the beginning of Templot most of the dialog windows have had scaling buttons: 2_170857_410000002.png These buttons have had little comment over the years. So either they work exactly as required, or no-one ever uses them. (Apart from the predictable complaint that the buttons are the wrong way round -- you can't please everyone. The up button shrinks the window up towards the top caption bar, the down button expands it down away from the top caption bar.) Each click changes the scale of the dialog window in the ratio 9:10 or 10:9. This is the minimum you can go down to: 2_170857_410000001.png And this is the maximum you can go up to: 2_170857_400000000.png The reason I'm writing about this now is the recent introduction of some very high resolution small screens, such as on the Surface Pro 3 from Microsoft, and similar tablet computers running a full version of Windows. I would be interested to know if anyone is ...
18. more Xplains
... Hi Martin, It looks good in terms of learning how to insert a catch point. It won't all fit on my screen at once though. I am running a 27" monitor at 1920x1080 and you can't get both the Xplains controls and the Templot menu bar etc on the screen at the same time. Pressing F11( in Firefox) to switch to full screen gives the same result. Thanks Rob. Try either: zooming out (Ctrl+ mouse wheel) or reducing the width of your browser window until the Xplain shrinks to fit. The original design size was 1200 pixels wide for the Xplain. You will get the sharpest image if you resize it to that by either of the above methods. I will try to use a wider aspect ratio in future. Can you tell me what is the available height in your browser at your usual zoom setting, between all the various top toolbars, and the Windows taskbar at the bottom? Thanks. You can get a handy free screen ruler from: http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/ ...
19. 3D again?
... the idea of 3D printing the track work would be if you were wanting to use it in the garden or where a lot of UV/sun light would fall on the track formation. The reason being that a number of 3D printed materials can weaken under exposure to UV light (indeed, many plastics can), unless you go for the higher cost resin printers which use UV to cure the finished prints. Certainly worthy of experimentation and I look forward to seeing what others come up with. As mobile phones continue to shrink in thinness, battery tech is going to continue to evolve at a fast rate, so even n gauge might be possible in a few years or maybe even less. There are exciting technical breakthroughs in battery technology that are meant to be on the horizon for both mobile computing, mobile phones and cars. One of those being solid state battery tech, which is said to offer much faster recharge rates, and much smaller, less weighty sizes of battery for a given output. Will be a little while still before that ...
... adjustments to the control template but don't change any previously stored templates. However there are several "modify on rebuild" functions to make various aspects of the stored templates match the current control template. You will find these as modify group to match menu items. *if you mint a NEW control template, some settings are restored to the REA defaults. Last, the track plan I am following has a gradually tightening curve. How can I persuade Templot to do this? Click the geometry> transition curve> C-curve shrinking transition menu item. More about that at: http://templot.com/martweb/gs_geometry.htm#transition To fit a transition curve between existing templates you need the "make transition" functions. More about that here: http://templot.com/martweb/info_files/make_trans.htm and it is also covered in many of the videos. regards, Martin. posted: 4 Nov 2014 21:32 from: Richard Spratt CPM wrote: I have jumped in at the deep end and maybe am being over ambitious, but ...
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