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posted: 24 Jul 2010 11:40 from: Mike Waldron
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Has anyone produced a 3 way turnout with interlaced sleepers? Apparently they were fashionable in the early days of the LB&SCR. Would value any help possible Mike |
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posted: 26 Jul 2010 10:23 from: Mike Waldron
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I have just been running the 3 way Tandem turnout video - which is great - but I have not quite worked out how to get to the starting point - namely to being with both turnouts stripped of their central timbers. Added to which, I am working with interlaced sleepers instead of some of the timbers - LBSCR pre 1900 practise. I suspect that the timbers left out are the ones I will be interlacing - from the rear of the switches to the 4 timbers that the crossing and check rails are set on. It's just getting to that stage I'm not sure of. The rest I can work out from the video. Mike Waldron. |
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posted: 26 Jul 2010 11:11 from: Martin Wynne
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Hi Mike, There are some notes about that video at: topic 707 - message 4150 and John Preston has uploaded some tutorial files in the same topic. I have not quite worked out how to get to the starting point - namely to being with both turnouts stripped of their central timbers.The missing timbers have been omitted using the real > shove timbers functions. Tandem turnouts are quite involved and the tandem video is intended for Templot users with some experience. If you haven't yet used the shove timbers functions I would recommend a bit more practice with the basics of Templot before attempting a tandem turnout. regards, Martin. |
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posted: 26 Jul 2010 11:25 from: Mike Waldron
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Thanks for that Martin. have produced quite a lot of interlaced B6, B7 and C8 turnouts now, so feel that it would not be beyond my wits to do one. my problem is what happened to the sleepers on the two turnouts on the video? Were they deleted, omitted, or just hidden? and how is that done? Mike |
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posted: 26 Jul 2010 13:03 from: Martin Wynne
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Mike Waldron wrote: my problem is what happened to the sleepers on the two turnouts on the video? Were they deleted, omitted, or just hidden? and how is that done?Hi Mike, Click the real > shove timbers menu item. Then: 2_260753_380000000.png 1. click the timber number (not the timber itself). 2. click the omit timber button, or press letter O on the keyboard (i.e. the underlined accelerator key shown on the button). Using the keyboard is very much quicker than clicking the button with the mouse -- likewise for the other buttons on this dialog. 3. some detailed notes about timber shoving are on the ?help button. It's a good idea to make that your first port of call everywhere in Templot. regards, Martin. |
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posted: 26 Jul 2010 13:28 from: Martin Wynne
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Mike Waldron wrote:Many thanks for that Martin.Hi Mike, Sorry, that's not possible. There are just too many variables involved to curve multiple partial templates in one go as a group. So before creating complex formations it's important to finalise the track alignments. At the design stage you simply overlay the two base turnouts and leave it at that. When the track plan is finalised you can come back to it and create the full partial templates for the V-crossings and do the timber shoving. The same principle applies to slips -- leave adding the slip roads until the diamond-crossing alignments are finalised. This can save a lot of wasted work when you inevitably want to change something later. I've tried to edit the file and as it's in EM - can it be group selected and changed to P4?Well yes it can be, but as there is a change of gauge:scale ratio you will almost certainly find the alignments of the partial templates disrupted. I would strongly recommend starting from scratch in the final scale/gauge you want and on the final curved alignment. regards, Martin. |
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posted: 26 Jul 2010 17:19 from: Mike Waldron
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Thanks for those bits of advice Martin. I'll give them a try. Mike |
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