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61. Another one lost
... might sound. In a similar vein, I found one thing last night that would be a real help to those new to Templot. Over the last couple of months, I've been quietly building my proficiency in Templot, in no small part due to having made a rash commitment to a certain Society Chairman to produce a trackplan for him, which subsequently turned out to have double and single slips on a curve! Anyway, I'd been doing some messing around with timbering, and I noticed that the number of templates in the Storage Box had risen from 12 to around 22. Clicking through them individually, I noticed that certain ones were duplicated two or three times, but because they were in the same position in the background, I couldn't see that they were "layered" on top of each other. Then I was poking around in the menus to see if there was anything that would help tidy this situation up. I didn't find anything, but what I did find in the Storage Box menus was the item: Options> On copy to ...
... the half scissors- that worked fine) and help from other super-users. However, there are two things which constantly trip me up. Firstly, whenever you do anything which involves <store and background>, you end up with a duplicated template on the screen. I do not understand why the program is designed to do this? If I read the tutorial it says <just delete the lowermost one>, but I am scared of deleting something that I want. At the moment I tend to open the storage box and wipe from background and then delete it, but that is time consuming (but safe). If I do just use the delete function, is there a restore function if I accidentally delete something important? The second problem I have is with labels. I move these to one side of track or a turnout, but after doing some more work I always find they have changed their position again- usually right into the middle of the turnout where I cannot read them. Why do the labels move from the ...
... 3. Save them in a separate .box file, or 4. Show them in a less prominent colour. Group them all first, then: 1. Change the templates to centre-line-only templates: geometry> track centre-lines only menu item for the control template, followed by geometry> modify group to match menu item. They are then less prominent but still easily accessible by SHIFT-clicking on their name labels. or 2. wipe them from the trackpad. They then become unused templates in the storage box, and in the .box file. On the storage box: group> wipe group from backgnd menu item. If you do this I strongly recommend giving them identifiable names rather than having them all called "no-name". It's then easy to get one back by selecting it in the storage box and copying to the control template, or to the background, as needed. For best results, rename them all with the same prefix, such as "helix-A" say. Then it's easy to ...
64. Is it feasible?
... topic: 994 Is it feasible? posted: 19 Dec 2009 15:22 from: Raymond The attached file contains a fiddle yard that I am unsure would work, but if it does, would give me greater flexibility and more storage space for wagons. The six tracks slide between the loco storage tracks either side of the turntable and the wagon storage tracks at the top but include the curved portion too. Anyone got any ideas on this, I have little experience in building fiddle yards. Until I get this right there is not much point working on the rest of the layout. Thanks Raymond Attachment: attach_711_994_birmingham_gwr_good s_New.box 361 posted: 19 Dec 2009 17:32 from: Jim Guthrie Raymond, I think you've got a problem. The tangents at the track ends at the joins are all at different angles which would give varying degrees of dog legs if the traverser was moved away from the basic setup of all six tracks matching. You would have to have the track breaks on a line drawn from the centre of the circles and, to ...
... having laid one piece of track when I go to elect another, it cause my first piece to take on the new command and move from its position.... posted: 9 Oct 2017 09:14 from: Tony W Tony McGartland wrote: Tony, thanks for that. Makes perfect sense but having laid one piece of track when I go to elect another, it cause my first piece to take on the new command and move from its position.... Did you save your Control template to the storage box first? The easy way to do this is to use the insert key. In Templot you build up a track plan as a series of background templates (shown in Blue on the Trackpad) in the storage box. You can only alter the Control template (shown in white). To make a copy of a background template and leave the original where it is place the mouse pointer on the desired background template and either right or left click the mouse and select C copy to the control from the menu that ...
... them so I wanted to ungroup them. I couldn't find a way nothing seemed to work and I couldn't get back to where I started i.e. where I could add new templates and use all the functions on the main menu. Whenever I right clicked or used touch pad all I go was a medium sized+. Obviously I did something wrong and will need to start again hopefully a bit quicker next time. I must have deleted the track layout as all the other templates that I didn't need anymore where still in the storage box. As I do not want to make the same mistakes again could you explain: a) How to move several templates as group b) How to I exit the grouping function when I have grouped some templates. Best wishes posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:47 from: Paul Boyd Hi Graham The short answers are:- Rotate a group about the notch- Ctrl+ F8 Shift a group- Ctrl+ F7 Ungroup everything- Ctrl+ Y (Group everything- Ctrl+ A) All of these are ...
... the use of jigs. Also regarding the switches/3way/diamonds ect it would be handy to have not so much different jigs. But i think in my case it would be more convenient to make several switches in one go on one sheet, still working/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 ...
... is the place where i got mine ideas from, incl Templot. Basically i am copying that, but i have to work my way around welding( i am a disaster) and the cnc/milling part, i dont have those tools. Even if i would had those tools i must learn a lot about the parts of turnouts and ect. With best regards, Igor Last edited on 29 Jun 2020 07:06 by Igor Kurgan posted: 29 Jun 2020 16:15 from: Tom Allen Igor, in the storage area have you thought of using a traverser instead of all those points posted: 30 Jun 2020 18:53 from: Igor Kurgan I did not even know what a traverser was up til now!Good looking idea, but i am afraid not for me, i would like to drive in and out the loco with rolling stock, sorry.(have some fantasy about the aa20 and my great grandfathers loco 6300 series dutch) But great thought! learned something new yesterday and today. There are not much videos about ...
... Document Model, which Templot doesn't use. Deleting to the control, making modifications, and storing again is the correct way to modify an existing background template. It's quite fast if you use the accelerator keys and keyboard shortcuts. This procedure is more usual when timber shoving and using partial templates. It's not often necessary when first creating a track plan. There is an option on the delete confirmation dialog "don't ask me again today" which will prevent the dialog appearing again in the session. Note that while deleted from the storage box, the template is no longer included in the rolling backup. If you have previously done a lot of work on it, haven't saved a file, and fear your power cable may be chopped through by a JCB* at any moment, you may prefer to wipe to the control instead. This keeps an unused copy of the template in the storage box, which will be backed up and which you can revert to at any time. If you work this way you will accumulate a lot of unused templates in ...
70. Swiss Layout
... from not being abIe to come up with sufficient usefully identifiable or meaningful names, there were just too many of them and they got in the way, so I hide them at the start of each session. (Just look at my plan when it's first loaded and you'll see the dense concentration of them over each of the complex formations on the plan) So what I do is simply highlight the template I want on the background, or one close to it if it's buried among lots of others. I then open the storage box which is now showing that template and then I use the back/forward arrows to get to the one I want so I can use the storage box's "wipe to the control" button. If I want to duplicate that template for any reason, I the use the "re-store and background" button on the main menu which creates an unused copy of the template (in blue) at the end of the template list in the storage box. Hope this helps. Regards Alan posted: 17 Jan ...
... I still don't understand the control menu. I am spending a lot of time just trying all the combinations of the commands to see what happens. You have three commands, "new template (quick set)", "mint from the control template" and "mint from the current control". What is the difference between them? Does setting the gauge and scale option always start with its default template (e.g. semi-curved LH turnout) being displayed on the work space? I notice that while in the storage box the command says "copy to control template" but if a template has been selected on the works space prior to opening the storage box, the command changes to "wipe to the control template". Is each template independent while in the storage box. I.e., can they be edited as long as their relationship to related templates is not altered? E.g. if the peg is moved on this new template would that cause a problem in alignment to its related templates? Is the peg used as a guide ...
... well. However, I am having little success in trying to copy the control template once I have modified the sleeper spacings and widths. For example, I went into Real/Switch Settings and set an A switch using the control template which had been modified to the desired timbering. However, when I apply this for other turnouts the timbering stays as per the Templot default. I have also tried copying a whole turnout and adding this but usually I get a message saying I cannot do this because it is already in the storage box. I can manually modify every turnout but for a layout 70' x 22' some short cuts are desirable! Any help would be appreciated. Regards Graeme Lewis Attachment: attach_2763_3338_Ashton_Old_Road_s tation_looking_in_up_direction.JPG 194 posted: 9 Oct 2018 22:33 from: Martin Wynne Hi Graeme, Welcome to Templot Club. Some impressive pointwork there. We need a bit more information -- the Midland Railway didn't use REA switches (introduced 1925), so if you have MR data you should probably be creating a custom switch: 2_091700_410000000.png To ...
... as my PC but when I open it on either machine I can't access what I did on the other one. Is there something I can do to enable me to work on the same plan on either machine? Also, how do I save one trackplan so that I can work on another one but still have the first one accessible? Sorry about the numpty questions but I can't find the answers anywhere at present. Dave posted: 11 Mar 2019 21:01 from: Rob Manchester Hi Dave, The contents of the storage box can be saved by using the Files->Save all Templates menu option. The storage box contains all the background templates you have stored( ie the trackplan). Use the Files-> load/Reload/add from file menu option to open one back up again. This file( xxxxx.box) can be copied or moved like any other digital file ie via memory stick, network etc. I haven't any experience of storing Templot across network drives so somebody else may comment on that option if the two machines ...
... posted: 24 Aug 2010 17:51 from: Ian Spalding Don't know if this is an Templot error or severe finger trouble. I've been building up a project by overlaying templates on a scanned track plan. Nearly finished and went to add another point by the Peg/Align ==> Snake over peg function and instead got every template I've ever created copied onto the plan. Aghh! Is there an easy way of going back one or two steps to get rid of these or do I have to go to the storage box and systematically wipe those I don't want from the background, bearing in mind there are some 300 templates and I probably only need about 40 of these. Regards, Ian Spalding posted: 24 Aug 2010 18:11 from: Brian Nicholls Ian Spalding wrote: Don't know if this is an Templot error or severe finger trouble. I've been building up a project by overlaying templates on a scanned track plan. Nearly finished and went to add another point by the Peg/Align ==> Snake over peg function and ...
... drawing http://www.thepurpleprimer.co.uk/templot/ramsgate/ser_harbour_station_1872_rotated.j pg 048008b0.jpg Ramsgate_Harbour_railway_station.j pg sands%20station%20ramsgate.jpg otherway.png I need it mirrored for my room's location though- like this... mirrorstation.jpg Is this even remotely possible or should I put the whole thing out of my mind? posted: 11 Feb 2015 23:05 from: Nigel Brown Fascinating! Certainly worth thinking about. I'd suggest start by working out what you want for your maximum length of train, which would tell you how much space you need for storage sidings (cassettes or a traverser might be worth thinking about to save space) and should also tell how long your platforms need to be. Add a bit for the turntable and add all that up and it should tell you how much space you have left for the station throat. Nigel posted: 12 Feb 2015 01:16 from: Nigel Brown Came across this plan: 528_111958_290000000.jpg If it's accurate then it's about 1520' long, or 20' in 4mm. So it would need a bit of reduction. If ...
... topic: 1238 Arranging the order of templates and name searching posted: 9 Sep 2010 14:58 from: richard_t I wish Templot could: 1/ Arrange the order of the templates by selecting one in the template list within the storage box, hold down shift and drag the slider near the bottom of the window. It's not much fun clicking 70 odd times, to get a template to the top of the list. 2/ Search for a template given a wildcard search- then given the option of "deleting to control"/"wiping to control"/"copying to control" for a single match, or selecting one from a multiple match, and doing the same, as well as group selecting. posted: 19 Dec 2010 14:19 from: PaulTownsend richard_t wrote: I wish Templot could: 1/ Arrange the order of the templates by selecting one in the template list within the storage box, hold down shift and drag the slider near the bottom of the window. It's not much fun clicking 70 odd times ...
... on already-built track 105_071438_190000000.png Last edited on 7 Oct 2010 19:48 by Paul Boyd posted: 8 Oct 2010 13:31 from: JFS Hello All, Maybe this is not something that we do very often- but it is unbelievably powerful and very, very useful, especially in complex situations. I wonder Martin, if you are thinking about making changes here, if it would be possible to create "permanent" groups which could then be selected and manipulated as a single entity and appear as such in the storage box until an "Ungroup" button was clicked (at which time of course the "regoup button would become active). They could then have a common set of peg positions which would then mean that when you had created some partial template masterpiece, it could be moved around like a simple template. I am hoping that such a thing would be only a *simple development* of the 'Remember Group As' action- the biggest issue with that being that it is not saved between sessions.(new set of ...
... 04 from: Bill_Lobb Jim Guthrie wrote: Brian Lewis wrote: I can see that the Western supporters have never forgiven the Midland for nicking the Bristol and Gloucester from under the noses of the GWR. Jim. Well said, Jim. You are not alone. Bill posted: 21 Sep 2008 03:13 from: Stumpytrain Hi, Well I had a quick tinker with No.10 crossover today, I'm quite pleased with the results so far. Am I doing something wrong as I keep ending up with loads of templates in my storage box? Also I've got a gap in the rails between the two crossing vees. How did that happen? Is it because I've deleted the wrong template when trying to tidy my box? Anyway, I'm happy with the results so far. I'm not looking forward to doing the scissors crossover though! Alex Attachment: attach_342_542_bristol_old_station _08_09_20_2208_57.box 550 posted: 21 Sep 2008 04:10 from: Martin Wynne Stumpytrain wrote: Am I doing something wrong as I keep ending up with loads of templates in my storage box? Also I've ...
... topic: 1502 Templot DEVELOPMENT VERSION Crash posted: 18 May 2011 20:49 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, I have the DEVELOPMENT VERSION installed as per your instructions, thanks for the release code. It starts up OK but I managed to crash the program within 5 minutes. The crash can be reproduced as follows :- With some templates in the storage box but nothing in control if you click 'clear all templates' the templates all go off the screen to be replaced by a small box saying 'Your storage box is empty <OK>' which flashes rapidly for a few seconds and the program shuts down. The happens regardless of whether you take the save or not save option. When you restart the program the Templatesare all there again plus it adds a template into control. Do the same to 'clear all templates' when there IS a control template and it clears all background templates and just leaves the control which is what I expected. I tried different numbers of templates and changed gauge/scale but it didn't help. Rob posted ...
80. Templot Crash
... far as I can remember this is the first time I have seen that message appear in normal use since the day I wrote it. I had to do a bit of digging in the code to remember how it is triggered. Essentially it means Windows has refused to grant Templot some more memory space when asked. To find out why that is I would need to have your computer in front of me. The only thing I can think of at present is that you have accumulated a huge number of unused templates in the storage box. How many do you have in there? -- main> storage box... menu item. There is an absolute limit of 30,000 templates in the storage box, but it's difficult to imagine how anyone could get anywhere near that number. On the other hand, it may be nothing to do with memory, and the wrong message has been displayed because of a bug somewhere else. On balance I'm more inclined to that view, especially in view of the division by zero error, but ...
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