... B11. click on the template and then delete to the control. B12. go to step A9. The result of this method is the same as sliding the template to the right (SHIFT+ F9) after A7. regards, Martin. posted: 28 Jan 2015 00:27 from: Franz Hello, I have returned to designing the narrow gauge template after a sabbatical. I have updated the template to 9mm H0e NEM gauge and defined the sleepers and timbers per the prototype. I am however having trouble with the transition of the turnout timbers to road sleeper spacing at the exit of the turnout. This occurs on both the main road and turnout road transitions. The prototype tightened the spacing of the sleepers at the rail gap and the adjacent sleeper before following a wider gap for the remainder of the rail. The same gap is used at the entrance and exit of the turnout. I defined the Rail length and Sleeper spacing in the TEMPLOT file and this transition is correctly defined in the road and at the turnout entrance. I can not ...

... topic: 237 How Do I Snap Fix a Circuit posted: 16 Nov 2007 02:45 from: Richard Spratt Snap fix is excellent, but I want to do a non circular circuit. How do I get the last template to snaps at both ends so the circuit is complete and the rails nicely aligned? Thanks, Richard posted: 16 Nov 2007 02:49 from: Alan Turner You can't you have to create a transition between the last two sections of track. Alan posted: 16 Nov 2007 03:22 from: Martin Wynne Richard Spratt wrote: Snap fix is excellent, but I want to do a non circular circuit. How do I get the last template to snaps at both ends so the circuit is complete and the rails nicely aligned? Hi Richard, Snapping can only snap the existing current/control template as it stands. To link between two existing tracks you need a function which can create a new template to fit. The usual way to do that is to use the make transition* function, as Alan ...

... this is explained in more detail. I'm trying to set the peg at a specific point in a plain track template where I want a curve to start. There is a much easier way to get what you want: 1. CTRL-0 to put the peg on the track centre-line if not already, or geometry> peg on line or rail> on main road centre line menu item. 2. CTRL+ F8 mouse action to move the peg along to where you want it. 3. geometry> transition curve> easement from straight menu item. 4. geometry> transition curve> zero-length instant transition at peg menu item. You can then adjust the radius to whatever you want (F6 mouse action, click the triangle symbol to swap 1st or 2nd radius adjustment). Note that doing this only makes sense if you want to have a turnout spanning the boundary. For plain track most users would simply have two templates, one straight and one curved. You can snap them together using F7 mouse action, you ...

... the pun). A few things I have questions about.. 1. I seem to have an over-laid CCE siding; easy enough to delete, but why did I get two? 2. The lower two of the three sidings have been formed of two sections to get the curve I wanted; is this the right way to do it? 3. I have put a slight curve on the upper turnout of the crossover to eliminate the parallel road for the run-round loop which I've then made a transition curve. Is this acceptable/correct? 4. I moved the labels and I can't get them back. Help !? So, there we have it. Any advice or criticism welcomed. Thanks in advance. Attachment: attach_1461_1998_layout_100_2012_0 6_11_rev_8.box 395 posted: 29 Jun 2012 20:53 from: Martin Wynne Hi Wirey, Welcome to Templot Club. 1. I seem to have an over-laid CCE siding; easy enough to delete, but why did I get two? I've no idea unless you say what method ...

... , I have a feeling progress will come to a full stop in two weeks time. A suggestion -- before you finalize the baseboards, think about making the hinge pins removable. This will allow you to separate the boards and make them much easier to work on. If you grind or file off the ends of the pins you can punch them out and replace them with a suitable piece of longer bar bent to a L shape. (Or ideally for international transport thread the bar ends and put on lock nuts for transit.) My experience of hinged boards is not good -- maintaining alignment as the wood ages and moves can be a pain. For P4 baseboard joint alignment is critical, especially in this case where you have a skew track crossing the joint. I would be inclined to regard the hinge pins as there for transit only. To be removed and replaced with conventional dowels and bolts between the boards when setting up. In your design you could bolt through the hinge blocks -- as close to the track surface as you ...

... of standard track together is not the way the real thing is done (even 60 panels of plain track!). The secret that unlocked Templot for me was to think not in terms of templates but in terms of the whole track layout. After all, a turnout is actually a nuisance, only there to be able to run more than one train or go somewhere else other than A to B. If newcomers to Templot think in terms of the line of route, then a) they would get the hang of transition curves a lot sooner and b) realise that you design the turnout to fit a specific need. Everything else, for me, drops into place. Of course, I need help and your help is vital and invaluable- otherwise I would not have been able to complete Brighton-75A. But as far as the videos and user guides are concerned, again my software experience is that the last person to write the user guide is the person who wrote the program. They are just too close to it and, ...

... prevented access to some other functions. It has been disabled in more recent versions. For model use it has been found more suitable to maintain the lead length constant along the centre-line of the main road. This minimizes distortion of the switch area, at the expense of some slight distortion to the V-crossing. Generally modellers experience greater difficulty with curved switches than curved crossings, so that is a trade-off worth making. Curving on the main road centre-line also permits turnouts to be aligned onto clothoid transition curves and slewed tracks. That's not something the prototype does (because there would be a cant gradient through the switch), but it's extremely convenient for modellers working within a cramped space and with very sharp radii to be able to roam a turnout into a transition zone. Templot uses the clothoid form for transitions and a modified hyperbolic tangent function for slewing. The Bloss transition is not supported. Professional p.w. design software creates curved turnouts from first principles without a pre-defined lead length. I have software code here ...

... 11:07 by Gordon S posted: 8 Mar 2010 10:16 from: NickJ I'd like whole-heartedly to endorse what Gordon explains so eloquently here. I too just dived in, and have enjoyed working out a considerable number of different plans in Templot over many years now (yes, it's a sad confession, but I enjoy using Templot for its own sake). During that time I have needed the on-line tutorials for only two aspects: making a slip, and joining two curves using the make transition technique. These were the only two things I've needed to do which I couldn't work out using my standard 'try it and see what happens' tactics. I wouldn't like to think what profile I have in Gordon's system, and I know this way is anathaema to some, but it suits me! posted: 8 Mar 2010 10:31 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: However, I do believe a "Getting started with Templot" flyer would be of use. It should be no more that 8 pages ...

... topic: 863 Nudging track to photo background plan posted: 11 Jun 2009 11:36 from: GeoffB Hi All, Hope someone can help me on this one. I have finished a station plan, some time back, for my garden line, but have not got round to building the turnouts yet. The main through double track has been laid a while, but of recent the track has been slightly realigned with more of a transition from the main station to the curve over the viaduct and consequently the track plan is now out on this section. I have taken a series of accurate plan view photos and stitched them together to form the background template for building the track plan to. It is not to far from the original position. My question is, can I nudge the track over to match the photo- I know I can do it on plain track, but some of the turnouts- a crossover with one side of the crossover being a double slip- are on this section that needs to be moved. Can I realign ...

... difference, or a big difference. On smaller track plans you probably won't see much difference. 2. There is a new option to restrict the number of background templates being shown on the screen when zooming out. Again this may or may not make a significant difference to the screen response. See the above topic link for more details. 3. I have re-written the code for the make return curve function. I was never entirely happy with its working, and it was often annoying that it wouldn't work on transition curves. It does now. At the same time I have adopted a non-standard way of working for that function. Instead of putting the return curve in the control template, it is put on the background, leaving the turnout in the control template. The reason for that is that a return curve shouldn't have its length or radius changed, otherwise it won't function as a return curve. So there is little point in leaving it in the control template after making it. If you want to change the length ...