... topic: 2351 Some more info.. posted: 26 Nov 2013 23:43 from: MaxSouthOz Hi all I've had a play and now I'm ready to start. I've selected the BH size B semi-curved flexible switch (I'm building on a 6 foot diameter curve). I've selected 16.5 HO NMRA- 102" ties (sleepers)- and head and foot for flat bottomed rails.* How do I adjust the spacings of the ties to match the Peco Code 100 flextrack?* How do I get the foot of the rail to show? I can't see the edges of the rails once the actual rail is on top of the ties. Thank you Max posted: 27 Nov 2013 05:50 from: Martin Wynne Hi Max, The easy one first: How do I get the foot of the rail to show? I can't see the edges of the rails once the actual rail is on top of the ties. Click the real> rails> head and foot (flat-bottom rails) menu item: 2_090523_110000000.png ...

... topic: 3126 PDF colour, infill and style settings posted: 12 Nov 2017 00:52 from: Rob Manchester Hi, I have Templot set to print in B&W only. When I print a trackplan it prints fine and has solid black lines for sleeper/timber outlines and centrelines and a solid black line for track centreline. Timber infill colour is set to white. However when I send the same trackplan to a PDF (selecting B&W mode) all the sleeper/timber outlines and centrelines and the track centreline are broken dotted lines rather than solid lines. Where is the setting that I have missed to change this so the PDF( when printed) looks just the same as the direct Templot print? BTW Templot insists that my Brother HL-2240D( a B&W A4 Duplex laser printer) is a colour printer as in the message "You have selected the black& white only option for your template printing. Your current printer is a colour printer." that comes up when I set it to B ...

... black timbers are going to use a lot of ink and maybe cockle the paper. It may have been better to have set cross-hatching timber infill instead of solid for a black& white print. Also it is more than 16ft-8in long, so they may not be able to print it if they are using Adobe software. regards, Martin. posted: 11 Nov 2011 10:55 from: Gordon S Thanks again Martin. I'll wait to hear from them and then send a revised file with cross hatched sleepers. I probably don't need the sleeper numbers either.... posted: 11 Nov 2011 11:11 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: Thanks again Martin. I'll wait to hear from them and then send a revised file with cross hatched sleepers. I probably don't need the sleeper numbers either.... Sorry Gordon, there seems to be a bug in the PDF generator -- for the black& white setting the timbers should have been cross-hatched anyway, and on each page one of ...

... . Many thanks for any help. Regards Raymond posted: 8 Jan 2009 04:57 from: Jim Guthrie Raymond wrote: Does anyone have any information of the size of track panels that would have been in use at Crieff in around 1923? Were they 30, 45 or 60 foot? all my reference material is in storage right now but I have little for anywhere this far north of Wolverhampton anyway. Raymond, I've just had a look at two photos of St.Fillans and Balquhidder stations and the track appears to have twelve sleepers between fishplates which would point to 30ft panels. These stations were close to Crieff and were built quite late in the Victorian period- in fact Balquhidder was probably rebuilt in the Edwardian period. The track should be representative of Caledonian practice up to the Grouping although I'll see if I can find a picture(s) of Crieff where the track details are decipherable and the pictures are dated. I suspect that the scenery around these stations was somewhat more attractive that that surrounding Wolverhampton Jim. [Edit] to show that Balquhidder ...

... topic: 527 Narrow gauge templates posted: 21 Aug 2008 21:42 from: Hayfield Martin After a week next to the Festiniog on holiday I have decided to use some old 7mm sleepers along with some peco code 82 fb rail and Pandorail chairs to make some track. (I was the one taking as much interest in the track as the locos). Ok some of the track was spiked others had vairying forms of chairs but I have to start somewhere. I have followed your customising narrow gauge tutorial, whilst the Festiniog is 2' gauge I am going to use 16.5mm instead of 14mm. All has gone well except the sleepers are a bit short either side of the rail, initially I thought it might be because I have increased the gauge by 2.5mm but they probably need about 2mm extra each side. As I followed your tutorial step by step without understanding too much of what I was dooing could you assist please. Also should there be sound, as there are pauses in movement which leads me to the fact that I am ...

... to Pascal and get the syntax colouring which makes it more readable. p.s. Please note that any direct emails about this will be ignored. I just don't have the time, sorry. Comments here on Templot Club only please. cheers, Martin. Attachment: attach_2642_3221_panning_unit.txt 283 posted: 22 Feb 2018 00:11 from: Jim Guthrie I haven't looked at Delphi code for over eight years. A quick peek and it all started to come back. What coders might want to see is your code that generates the rail and sleeper lines. Jim. posted: 22 Feb 2018 00:35 from: Martin Wynne Jim Guthrie wrote: What coders might want to see is your code that generates the rail and sleeper lines. Hi Jim, Yes, but that's thousands of lines of code. I thought I would start with something simpler. I've just done a fresh build. Compiler says total 383,427 lines. I don't know how that is calculated, but it works out at 52 lines per day for 20 years. cheers, Martin. ...

... topic: 267 Sleeper lengths for supporting point machines posted: 28 Nov 2007 01:51 from: richard_t I wonder if anyone knows how long the sleepers S1/S2 are extended to support the point machine? I realise this might be a "how long is a piece of string", but I'm concerned with the typical point machine seen along the older bits of the WCML (i.e. not switch point clamps). Looking at http://seva.eng.ox.ac.uk/research_railway_points_machine.ht ml those manufactured by Westinghouse Signals. My usual sources for this information cop out by stating "these timbers extended to suit signalling engineers needs". Richard. PS: Sorry if I've got the terms completely wrong- it's been a long month posted: 28 Nov 2007 01:54 from: richard_t Oops- google is my friend, this is quite interesting... http://www.westinghouserail.co.uk/Repo/datasheets/SURELOCKL3.pdf Seems they are 430mm wide, but there is a gap between them and the running rails- wonder how wide that is? Richard. Parts ...

... , mark both from the plan- even gentle curvature will stagger them significantly. Cut through the rail head, as far down as the web, to simulate the intermediate joints. Slide the chairs onto the rail (suggest Mozart as accompaniment!), then solder cosmetic fishplates into the web. Don't forget to group the chairs in sections first- you can't slide them past the fishplates once they're on. For electrical connection, I use brass lace-making pins (about 0.6mm diameter), pushed through tight holes in the sleepers and bigger holes in the trackbed and baseboard, then wired underneath. You need exactly two such droppers on each rail section- on adjacent sleepers so that expansion between them is miniscule, but avoiding a single point of failure. Solder the rails to these- in 4mm the pin head leaves the rail height above the sleeper exactly matching the plastic chairs, although in your 7mm this might not be the case. Splitting the chairs that go on these sleepers in half and cementing them, cosmetically, in place leaves the droppers ...

... printing advice. Is this the way you mean Martin? No I have done that incorrectly I'll try again.Sorry Output-Printing from Templot: message 15032 Trevor. Last edited on 19 Jul 2013 15:30 by Trevor Walling posted: 19 Jul 2013 15:56 from: Trevor Walling Printing after shoving timbers message 14174 How about this? Trevor. posted: 19 Jul 2013 16:01 from: Trevor Walling problem with printer calibration: topic 2120 Trevor. posted: 19 Jul 2013 16:11 from: Trevor Walling Printed sleeper numbers on plain track: message 14756 Hello Martin, Is this the process you had in mind for users to go actively searching for subjects? Trevor. posted: 19 Jul 2013 21:08 from: Martin Wynne Hi Trevor, Many thanks for those. I will get them indexed soon. It doesn't really matter how you post it, provided I have a link or the message number, so that I can find it. If you like to spend time actively searching that's fine and welcome, but originally I thought ...

... to have a place in society. Well done! For me. Printer options. Change the default on track names to 'no track names' Scale/gauge But most of all, the Generator settings. To have to remove 6-7 ticks, with having to open the drop down every single time, is the most frustrating part of Templot. When I use Templot I do not want radial end marks, outline extension marks, timber centre lines, timber numbering, timber infill, 81 6" marks on 9' sleepers. It is bad enough that I have to expend time doing it once. But when I open the same file another time, I have to do this all over again? Why cannot each file save its own attributes? And what about removing the nanny state, irritating, time wasting Handy Hints? And 'Refresh option' screen, i.e click on 'Workpad' nand start work immediately. (Come to think of it, why not have the ability to default to the workpad when clicking on the Templot icon)? ...