... last, and the "marker" templates get removed as I go along. Cheers Hi Paul I would be very interested in hearing more about your methods, specifically marker colours etc. I haven't ventured far into Templot just yet but am now hungry for more info Cheers Bruce posted: 5 Apr 2010 22:15 from: Paul Boyd Hi Bruce How long have you got? The gist of my method is to draw the basic "shape" of the layout with plain track, to get the feel for the thing. 105_051651_150000000.png I use marker colours in this case to highlight different options- the orange line shows the crossing being converted to a slip, the red line is a possible parallel siding. (To change a background template to a marker colour, click it, then from the pop-up menu choose template colour => show in marker colour or template colour => marker colour...) Once I'm happy, all these templates- I call them guide templates- are set to the same marker colour, and they are ...