... gauge or scale) they can have separate bespoke settings? So that at startup they might have a list of options such as:- Templot default My P4 GWR pre-1920 Hi Nigel, But you can already do all that. That's what library templates are for. Just create a .box file with your library templates in it. Load the file, select the template you want on the storage box, click the button to copy it into the control template, and off you go designing a new layout with it: storage_box_library.png The "master template" idea simply automates that process at startup with a single click. If you introduce a range of options, there is no advantage over the existing methods. regards, Martin. posted: 7 Mar 2009 00:59 from: Nigel Brown Hi Martin But that's the point, doing it with a simple click at startup. If you're going to allow a click to select a single master template, as opposed to other possible courses of action, then it should be possible for a single click to ...

... you can't save it directly. To save your settings for re-use in future designs, store the template as a library template and save a .box file with your library template(s) in it. That's main> store as library template menu item. When you want to use those settings again, you reload or add the file into the storage box, select the template which contains them, click the button to copy it into the control template, and off you go designing a new template with those settings: storage_box_library.png Alternatively, simply shift (F7 mouse action) the template to the bottom of the workpad below the grid origin line, and then main> store& background menu item. Anything in the negative quadrants doesn't get printed, so you can use that area as a general dumping ground for templates. Some users like to have a row of them along the bottom of the screen and saved in the .box file. Just click on whichever one you want, copy it to the control template, and shift it to wherever you ...