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... I have attached the BOX and BGS files below. I have not done any partial templates or timbering -- over to you, or some other kind soul on here. The BMP file which you posted was a 1-bit scan, which is a problem in the current TDV update -- you may see it with a solid colour background. I have converted it to 8-bit PNG format, and attached it below. I recommend that you reload that file into your picture shape (it's set to be displayed transparent). regards, Martin. Attachment: attach_1424_1919_hornsey_tandem.bo x 268 posted: 12 Apr 2012 01:04 from: Martin Wynne And the BGS: Attachment: attach_1425_1919_hornsey_tandem.bg s 261 posted: 12 Apr 2012 01:06 from: Martin Wynne And the PNG image: Attachment: attach_1426_1919_hornsey.png 492 posted: 12 Apr 2012 19:11 from: Les Waters Martin Many thanks for all your help. I will now endeavour to get the plan completed. Regards Les Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called ...
... I am still designing the trackwork for my station. I am trying the ability to "distort" the background to fit an "S" shape so the track enters near the baseboard front at one end and leaves at the far baseboard edge at the other end. So this facility is something I welcomed and am using. As for Sketchpad, I've "played" around with it and found it useful. I plan to add the platforms and buildings (once the trackwork is finalised), then print the whole thing on transparencies. I can then glue this to the underside of the baseboard so I have the track& buildings "mirrored". Then when adding items such as point motors, electronics (*) etc. I will know if I am going to drill into a building or not. (*) being in MERG I do use quite a lot of electronics! Howard Watkins posted: 2 Jun 2012 11:24 from: Alan Turner Martin, a coupe of extra thoughts. I'd forgotten to mention the new facility to drape ...
... .. menu item. Set the PDF page size to match your printouts. Open the the PDF file in your PDF reader program and see if you get the same problem. If you do, perhaps you could attach the PDF file here. Perhaps you could post a photo of your printouts so that we can see exactly what is missing. regards, Martin. posted: 3 Aug 2012 19:22 from: Jerry Hi Martin, Sorry to have spoiled your evening, but I have found that I had some almost transparent platforms which I had not noticed on the screen. The missing numbers all existed but were hidden by the platforms. Foolish me! Nothing else had changed, the printer I used is dedicated to Templot. Thank you for your concern. Jerry Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Disappearing sleeper/chair numbers on printout. about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for ...
... to publish the document on the Templot Club forum, and nowhere else. I was not quite sure if this is the right place for this request, but if there is any problem with this, then if you would kindly either PM me on Templot Club, or reply by my private email address. I await your decision. All the best, Brian Nicholls. 1853_041044_420000000.gif posted: 4 Oct 2012 16:04 from: Martin Wynne Hi Brian, Sure. But please use the original size image, so that the GIF transparency displays properly: 1853_041044_420000000.gif© Martin Wynne Please also add my copyright credit as above, unless it is going to appear on this web site and nowhere else. I would be grateful for a sight of your document before you post it. It makes it so much easier to amend any small inaccuracies before you post it rather than after. As I don't know what's in it I can't be sure, but you may want to wait until after the next program update. I have changed some of the trackpad tool-buttons ...
... . Click the add shape button. 2_161511_450000001.png 7. This dialog appears. For your room plan click the bottom green bar for drawing, photograph or other picture. 2_161511_450000000.png 8. The data-entry dialog appears. I entered your figure for the width, but I think you need to delete one of those zeroes. 9. The usual Windows file dialog will then appear, so you can select your required image file. After which, if you zoom out you should see: 2_161527_560000000.png 10. For this I ticked the transparent option on the background shapes dialog, although on some systems this may restrict the range of zooming. As you can see, I removed the extra zero, making this 3640mm wide. 11. Click the save all as... button on the background shapes dialog, to save a BGS file for this picture shape. This question crops up often. In the next program update I have added a new menu item -- this is just a duplicate form of words on the menu, the functionality is not changed ...
... of them and drag a rectangle round them, or 2. hold down the SHIFT key and then click on each one in turn. They will then all show individually selected. To move them all as a group, just drag one of them and the others will follow. But if you want to rotate them, you must first combine them. With multiple items selected, click the edit> combine items menu item. They will then become a single item which can be selected, dragged, rotated, stretched, made transparent, copied and pasted, etc., all in one go at any time. This way you could make up useful shapes, such as a bracket signal post with several arms. Copy to the copyboard and save a useful .sk9 file from there for re-use. If you need to get back to the original items, select the combined item and then click the edit> split items menu item. regards, Martin. posted: 5 May 2015 13:45 from: Martin Wynne p.s. Phil, For ...
67. Ruler and peg
... topic: 1056 Ruler and peg posted: 26 Feb 2010 22:31 from: renluethi I wish that the ruler is on top of the template in every magnification and that the peg centre is transparent. Thank you René. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> I wish it would...> Ruler and peg about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, all the files submitted to this web site are copyright and the property of the respective contributor. You are welcome to use them for your own personal non-commercial purposes, and in your messages on this web site. If you want to publish any of this material elsewhere or use it commercially, you must first obtain the owner's permission to do ...
... web space to which you could upload it, and from which I could then download it? regards, Martin. The image size is 14302x9161 (pixels), 24bpp- Templot is OK (as in I can save the background shapes with no errors), with the same image but 1 bit (i.e. B/W). I'll try again with something in-between. Nothing else in the BGS file, and the 24bpp image displays OK in the trackpad, and all zooming is fine (unless I have transparent option enabled, but I don't have that on usually). Templot doesn't seem to like it as a PNG file, Templot just "seems" to stall whilst trying to load it- in fact just trying to select it takes a long time- I guess as the "picture" control in the load image into picture shape window, is trying to show it. The image doesn't appear in the sketchpad, although if I set the "with borders" option, I can see the border. And I don't ...
69. A user gives up
... , mainly for stability (although a small number of our guests have reported difficulties logging on, in most cases because they hadn't completed the registration process). Citrix runs a server, we have the software running on our machine to enable us to be the 'organiser'. The organiser can speak, can hand the 'floor' to another speaker (for example, I am in the north of Scotland, my two sons are in Edinburgh and Bedfordshire and we run the webinar as if we were on the same platform- it's transparent to the user). There is a video facility which we don't use but we prepare a presentation on (in our case) OpenOffice Impress and one of us runs it on our local machine for all the guests to see simultaneously. There are facilities for guests to type questions or to use their microphones to ask questions. These can be private between the guests and organisers or open to all on the webinar. The statistics we receive have been very useful as feedback from the participants. We usually keep the webinar to ...
... //templot.com/companion/index.html?wrap_picture_shape_to_curve.htm (The templates are already straight, so the straightening part of the process can be skipped.) Here I have created a B-8 crossover in Templot on an outer radius of 1750mm, and wrapped the Scalefour Society B-8 template to match the curving and provide full underlying chair detail: Full view on the Templot trackpad: s4soc_b8_curved_crossover_1.png I increased the track spacing to 7ft-way to simplify the chairing at the centre just for this example. It's necessary to use the transparent option where the images overlap. Here is part of the printed template output -- a fully chaired curved B8 crossover in P4: s4_soc_b8_curved_crossover_print_1 .png Don't forget to tick the option to include picture shapes in the print (it is off by default). And set the timber infill to none so that the chairs are visible. You may also want to change the line thickness and colour settings for best results. I can't post more than these images on open forum here because of copyright, but I have written more with ...
... . Finding the crossing angle would be a bonus, but then you have the complication if both roads are curved, in the same direction or opposite directions- I can see that bit getting complicated! Cheers posted: 31 Jul 2013 09:45 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: I know it can be done by zooming in, but not if there are background picture shapes- zooming in too much just freezes my computer. Hi Paul, Zooming in over picture shapes is vastly improved if you temporarily turn off the transparent option (if you are using it). Alternatively you can temporarily hide the background shapes entirely -- trackpad> trackpad background options> hide background shapes menu option. You don't usually need the background shapes while adjusting check rails, timber shoving, and similar final tasks such as this on tandems. regards, Martin. posted: 31 Jul 2013 10:07 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin Alternatively you can temporarily hide the background shapes entirely -- trackpad> trackpad background options> hide background shapes menu option. That ...
... map at 1:500 of this junction available from http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html COORDINATES: 356936 116204 I have grabbed the screen and will attempt to overlay it on your track plan. regards, Martin. posted: 9 Oct 2013 00:47 from: Martin Wynne Hi Andrew, Looking at the photo I think the tracks are more than 6ft way at this junction. Here is the 1886 map (in red) scaled to 7ft way and overlaid on your track plan: 2_081923_560000001.png And again as a transparent overlay: 2_081923_550000000.png Here is a B-6.5 turnout aligned over it: 2_081940_340000000.png It seems that finding space for the crossover under the bridge could be tricky. That is often the case with hand-drawn track plans -- pointwork is drawn too short. I will see if I can work this up into a proper plan. regards, Martin. posted: 9 Oct 2013 21:50 from: Andrew Duncan Hello Martinundefined Once again thank you very much for the time and trouble you are putting in to helping me ...
... away.... Hi Graham, Thanks for your report. There is definitely an issue with the data-entry dialog. But in truth there is also an issue with this on Windows. That dialog is unchanged from the very first versions of Templot over 12 years ago and it's on the list for a complete re-write. I've now done some work to replace the Windows fonts with the free Linux fonts when running under Wine, with a big improvement in appearance. There isn't anything I can do about the transparent caption bar on child windows, which seems to be bug in Wine. Nor the tiny font for the captions and the menus -- thanks Jeff for the news this may get fixed. Changes in the next TDV update: 2_210649_440000000.png Your alternative is to install the M$ TruType faces 'Times New Roman', 'Courier New' (monospaced), and 'Arial'+ 'Arial Bold'. Just add the definition files to your Linux font directory. That would be fine for my system, but the object is to supply ...
74. File preview
... wrote: Template Name Labels- doesn't seem to bring labels on for all .box files Hi Godders, Thanks for the reply. The name labels are omitted when zooming out means that they would be too small to be readable. Templot has been that way from the beginning. You can make them appear always, by changing to trackpad> trackpad background options> background name labels> full-size menu option. However, you will probably find that they then obscure one another so much as to be unreadable. Changing to the transparent option helps a bit, or a smaller font -- like this (font size 6): 2_090539_200000000.png regards, Martin. posted: 9 Apr 2014 10:45 from: Godfrey Earnshaw Thanks Martin That's fine it's not a problem I just thought it was inconsistent. On Jim's point, I find it about double his for the same amount of files but presumably it depends on other factors such as file size, so it's not easy to compare by file numbers only total amount of data. Cheers Godders posted: 9 ...
... the grid co-ordinates of the trim margins at this corner of this page. These figures allow you to reset the page origin at a later date to repeat or restart the printing of required pages. The additional data is inside the trim margins so still available after trimming, although of course it may now obscure rather more of the template. Hopefully not too much -- this feature can be turned off if not wanted: 2_221953_550000000.png p.s. if the font for this text is set larger than size 8 it is shown transparent with the drawing visible under it, like this (this is not a new feature): 2_210751_190000000.png Bear in mind that in re-using these figures at a later date you will get repeatable results only if: it is the same printer, the paper size is set the same as before, the print quality is set the same as before, all other printer settings are the same as before, any custom trim margins are set the same as before, and the printer calibration settings are still the same. In ...
... 18:31 from: Martin Wynne For the next program update I have added a few more basic shape items on the sketchboard: square, triangle, arc, ring, segment, are new: 2_011318_400000001.png These provide a bit more flexibility in creating symbols and custom combined items. For example the ring will be useful for goods line signal arms on signal box diagrams. They can all be resized, stretched and rotated as before. And can be outlines, infill, or both, in any colours you wish, with adjustable transparency. For the arc and ring, the inner radius can be set as a% of the outer radius. Setting zero for this produces a full arc sector -- useful for coloured pie diagrams. 2_011318_400000000.png In the next program update. regards, Martin. posted: 7 Apr 2015 19:50 from: Andrew Duncan Martin A couple of small questions 1. When I tried to invoke the Sketchboard it comes up with a dialogue box saying "Canvas does not allow drawing" and won't, as a result, allow ...
77. Baseboard
... framework. However, I cannot find a way of creating the baseboard in Templot. Can someone please advise? In Templot the baseboards are created as background shapes, saved separately from the track templates in a BGS file. Go to main> background shapes menu item. Full notes here: http://templot.com/martweb/gs_bgshape.htm Sorry it is all a bit out of date. If you are preparing a layout design for publication, you may prefer to design the baseboards on the sketchboard. This allows more colour, transparency effects, text labels, easier adjustments, etc. Click the sketchboard button (top left on the trackpad). regards, Martin. Last edited on 30 Jul 2014 12:48 by Martin Wynne posted: 30 Jul 2014 12:32 from: stuart1600 mocco wrote: When designing a layout I thought that choosing the baseboard size was the first step. However, I cannot find a way of creating he baseboard in Templot. Can someone please advise? Can I respectfully suggest that baseboard size is not the best place ...
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