... topic: 3405 Diamond-crossings through a turnout posted: 31 Mar 2019 20:18 from: Martin Wynne Geoff asked about creating complex pointwork where a line runs across a turnout in a series of diamond-crossings: topic 3402 This is a not uncommon situation, so I thought it might make a suitable subject for a tutorial video, showing some of the more advanced functions in Templot. That was before I realised how much time that would take to make. Anyway, this is by way of introduction. 2_311418_400000001.png Creating that divides into several stages: 1. the easy bit. Create the basic alignments by overlaying normal templates: 2_311417_540000000.png 2. the straightforward bit. Create diamond-crossings at the intersections: 2_311501_480000000.png 3. the tedious bit. Separate out each K-crossing and V-crossing as a partial template: 2_311417_540000001.png There are 2 diamond-crossings, so that means 4 half-diamond templates, each having 2 K-crossings and 1 V-crossing, so that makes a total of 12 partial templates: 2_311417_540000002.png 4 ...