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topic: 2271Chair detail on curved templates
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posted: 26 Jul 2013 15:48

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Martin Wynne
 
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A new range of Exactoscale turnout templates has been prepared by Len Newman with full REA bullhead chair detail. Some of these are available in P4 as free PDF downloads for members of the Scalefour Society, and other gauges will be available soon from C&L (it's not clear if these will also be available as downloads in addition to paper templates).

Members of the Scalefour Society can find more info and the download links here:

 http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2799

Why would a Templot user be interested in these? Especially as they are all dead straight? Well they make it possible to put full chairing detail under your matching Templot templates by loading them as picture shapes, and using the image wrapping function in Templot to produce curved fully chaired templates -- to any radius. :)

More about how to use the image wrapping function here:

 http://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.pngs4soc_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.pngs4_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 additional screenshots on the S4 forum for Scalefour members and provided Templot file downloads:

 http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25066#p25066

To obtain a hi-res image (PNG) from the PDF download for use in a picture shape, use the excellent free PDF-XChange viewer program for the PDF:

 http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

which has a File > Export > Export To Image... function -- you can set 600dpi to save a hi-res image for Templot's picture shapes.

regards,

Martin.

posted: 29 Jul 2013 15:09

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gsmorris
 
 

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that is really good news I have been stumbling around this for quite a while now.

GSMorris

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