... continue this discussion with a brief exchange of private emails, in which to explore this further? dharma66 wrote: I'd love to volunteer to Martin's earlier suggestion that someone else has a go at some documentation, as I have done some technical authoring in the past, for complex software systems aimed at lay people. Trevor Walling wrote: Maybe a link to the answer for those with the same question would save you having to keep doing it repeatedly?(Duplicate/multiple templates) Hi all, I was really thinking only in terms of the words I use to explain the duplicate templates. There are already two good general tutorials written by Allan Ferguson and Tony Wilkins: http://templot.com/companion/index.html?getting_started_allan_ferguson.htm http://templot.com/companion/index.html?beginners_guide_tony_wilkins.htm But of course more of the same are always welcome. Trevor it is my intention that everything will eventually be in the Templot Companion so that I can simply link to it when needed. My replies here in the Templot Club forum are really only a stop-gap ...

... but has now been taken over by Marcway; both brands are now supplied via the same (Marcway) address. The SMP website states: SMP Scale Model Productions have now been taken over by Marcway of Sheffield and a price list of the SMP range of products is listed in the space below. The range will not be absorbed into the large Marcway range but will keep its own identity. Marcway started in 1964 and SMP and SCALEWAY later in the 1960s. Both brands having different but similar types of products and a long term following. EXACTOSCALE Code 75 Bullhead Rail BS95R steel 0.905 – 0.915mm [Source: Exactoscale] Code 82 Flat Bottom Rail BS113A steel 0.91mm nominal (probably 0.905- 0.915mm, as per B/H rail) [Source: Exactoscale] (Note: Exactoscale state that Nickel Silver variants of the above may have slight differences due to the way the material will behave when formed). PECO "INDIVIDULAY" Code 75 Flat Bottom Rail, nickel silver 0.78mm (0.0307") [Source: PECO and Dave Long] Code 80 ...

... are not significant, you can set them in the trackpad and output menus to whatever you want. To dimension the V-crossing rail ends from the fine point, click the real> V-crossing options> customize V-crossing> menu items. regards, Martin. posted: 15 May 2013 11:43 from: Franz Martin, That does clarify the colours. My difficulty is duplicating my reference design is dimensioned to 9.5 meter from the Fine Point of the V-Crossing to the Datum "Joint" (term used above). I can not get the dimensions less that about 10.5 meter without altering the V-Crossing to less than the 1:7. 1:7 is correct for all the other dimensions. I can not find a solution which allows me to reduce the Joint-FP length Perhaps I need to leave this long and adjust all the other dimensions to compensate for the longer entrance, but I expect there is a better solution. Paul posted: 15 May 2013 11:52 from: Martin Wynne Franz ...

... whole new area of garbage to deal with, including Apple's "closed shop" arrangements. And I'd like to add; not only do you like your feedback, your tech support is brilliant and shames many much larger outfits with its speed and care. So thank you for the trouble you take. Simon I can appreciate that you prefer not to have a separate boot-up OS for Templot. It is inconvenient and I'm not fond of emulation/compatibility layer programs either. In an emergency they are fine, but long term... I just find too many problems cropping up. With that in mind I am hoping to migrate the Windows component to a separate machine in the next 12 months. This was only ever supposed to be a temporary arrangement. Regards, Matt M. posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:58 from: Paul Boyd when I stopped doing any programming, (C, C++ and some UNIX), Windows sat on the MS-DOS system. Those days have long, long gone I think Windows 3.1 might ...

... version. Correct chairs and rail profile will probably be harder to sort. Francis Frith may be very aggressive in protecting its business but I doubt it would be through copyright on an image that dates from the 1880s or 1890s that were used for the postcard industry. That is why the images that they post on the website are of poor quality. If you purchase a high quality version you will effectively enter a contract which they would attempt to use against you. They are also careful not to claim copyright of images in their terms and conditions. But it always a good idea to be polite to those businesses that provide services that we can use. Keeping them going is of long term benefit to future researchers. Looking forward to the end result, it is such pretty line. Regards, Matt M. posted: 7 Apr 2015 15:50 from: keithj15 Hi Matt, I agree some of the images are quite poor due to age etc, but their maps and plans are often the only source of information, and these have been acquired ...

... are not the way to get smoothly flowing pointwork, and definitely not if aligning over a map. It's much better to use the split and insert functions to create a track plan, as in this video: http://flashbackconnect.com/Movie.aspx?id=QBDJMDgdiC7PwRqLS2U3jg2 Notice that at no time in the video are two separate templates joined together. cheers, Martin. posted: 3 May 2020 10:08 from: David Gwynne Thanks Martin for your swift response. First of all, an apology as I mislead you in terms of the map I used. I had uploaded and stitched together the "find by place" 1919 maps which I hadn't appreciated weren't 6"one! Thanks for confirming that OO won't fit exactly. I had expected that it wouldn't quite work. Fully appreciate your comments about learning the software before trying to design and I've been doing that to an extent by trying stuff off line and I'd used the method in that video of using the crossover function but good to watch it again! Particularly for seeing how to use some ...

... in stages e.g. do the 'Holyhead end first and then the 'Chester' end second. There's no problem in losing the section you identify- it is where the dock branch joins the fiddle yard and we will re-position this to lead into the new fiddle yard. We're not too worried about the need for high speed turnouts- in our experience, as long as we keep within the 1200 minimum radius constraint, then trains will happily run at way over maximum line speed. The Holyhead-Euston express, long-term resident on road 16, regularly negotiates the trailing and facing A6 part of the tandem turnout plus return curve without difficulties. As long as we keep the double junction in the fiddle yard rather than as part of the scenic section then we don't need to worry about appearances. We also need to bear in mind possible constraints with exhibition managers and keep overall dimensions as reasonable as possible. This means that I would like to be as tight as possible with the additional depth allocated to the new fiddle yard and as generous as ...

... would remove the BGS functions completely, as users will require to add in a background track plan (map, drawing etc), these are clearly very essential to the guidance for their layouts. Hi Brian, You can do the same via the sketchboard, and the SK9 file format is much more flexible than BGS. The auto-scaling functions would need looking at, but everything required is already in the sketchboard engine. But these are just musings for the future, I have no plans to change anything in the short term. regards, Martin. posted: 4 Apr 2012 15:16 from: Brian Nicholls Martin Wynne wrote: But these are just musings for the future, I have no plans to change anything in the short term. Hi Martin, Thanks for that last, very comforting thought, no immediate change to layout plan drawing insertion. Having said that though, the changes to Templot user functions has been incredible over the last several months, light years ahead of the older versions. Keep up the very good work Martin. ...

... topic: 3541 Copyright and licence in this section of Templot Club posted: 4 Nov 2019 10:34 from: Martin Wynne Just to keep everything above board. OpenTemplot/ TemplotMEC/ Templot3 (different names for the same thing) is licensed under GPL3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html If you post anything in this TemplotMEC nuts and bolts section of Templot Club, you will retain your own copyright in it, but it will be assumed that you are releasing it under the terms of the above licence. That means anyone else can make use of it provided they comply with the terms of that licence. If you post some computer code for example, it means I can incorporate it into Templot3, or anyone else can incorporate it into their version of SuperTemplot or whatever, without specifically asking you for permission to do so. If you are not happy with that, please either don't post it, or make clear that it is not covered by GPL3 when posting it. Thanks. cheers, Martin. Parts of ...

... kludge this into the BGS file format if (big IF) rotation is restricted to 1.5 degree increments. That would include of course all the common angles, 30/45/60/90/180 degrees etc., but not say 10 degrees. The nearest options would be 9 degrees, or 10.5 degrees. Nor anything infinitely variable, such as say 14.38 degrees. On the face of it that's a daft restriction and would make Templot look a bit silly. On the other hand it is doable in the short term, and would be a lot better than nothing. Whereas a full solution is a long-term project to replace the BGS file format with something much better, and rewrite the entire background shapes functions. So I'm in two minds about this. cheers, Martin. posted: 11 Feb 2018 15:29 from: Godfrey Earnshaw Martin, it is a "nice to have". For me personally 90 degree shifts are sufficient but I can see the nicety of lesser intervals. The problem I see is not what ...