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topic: 831Two things - Saving template settings, and Y-turnouts
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posted: 25 May 2009 10:29

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DANNY POSTHUMUS
 
 

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hi all

why doesnt templot save my custom gauge and scale when i  give it a name

same with custom switches  or am i doing somthing wrong

i go back into templot to do anothe little project and i cant find the gauge and scale i entered the from the previous session
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secondly how do i make an equal split turnout
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Danny posthumus

posted: 25 May 2009 15:31

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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DANNY POSTHUMUS wrote:
Why doesn't Templot save my custom gauge and scale when I give it a name?
Same with custom switches, or am I doing something wrong?
Hi Danny,

To save anything in Templot you must store a template containing it. Storing means putting a copy of the control template in the storage box. The control template is a transient design tool, 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.pngstorage_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 want. This has the advantage that you don't need to open the storage box to get to your template and you can see them all at a glance.

The disadvantage is that such templates might be inadvertently deleted. Library templates are much more secure against being deleted, and are marked in green in the storage box to help keep them separate from your track plan templates. You can sort them all to the end of the box list by clicking the box > sort library templates menu item on the storage box. Or you can keep a separate .box file containing only library templates, to be added to the storage box as and when needed.

For more notes about the storage box, see: http://www.templot.com/martweb/gs_box_notes.htm

regards,

Martin.

posted: 25 May 2009 15:41

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Martin Wynne
 
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DANNY POSTHUMUS wrote:
How do I make an equal split turnout?
Hi Danny,

There is a tutorial for that at:

  http://www.templot.com/martweb/y_symm.htm

However, the tutorial is very old and in need of updating for later versions of Templot. There have been several new features in Templot since then which make these symmetrical Y-turnouts easier to do.

Here's a run through, with the latest changes. Refer to the tutorial for more detail.

1. The dummy centre-line template can be positioned using the F7 snapping function, there is no need to use the peg and notch directly. Likewise the initial straight LH turnout template.

2. For turnouts up to 1:7 change to a 9ft straight switch. For over 1:7 and up to 1:8 change to a 12ft straight switch. For over 1:8 and up to 1:10 change to a 15ft straight switch. (template > switch options... menu item.)

3. Change to a curviform type of V-crossing. (template > V-crossing options... menu item.)

4. Click do > parking bay > park template menu item. This template will be retrieved later to form the separate switch front section.

5. Click geometry > peg positions > peg on switch heel menu item. It's important to do this while the turnout is still straight and before setting the transition next, otherwise the result will be wrong (not by much, so you may not realise there is an error).

6. Click geometry > transition curve > easement from straight menu item.

7. Click geometry > transition curve > zero-length instant transition at peg menu item.

8. Click geometry > peg positions > peg on TP menu item or press CTRL-2.

9. Click geometry > shift / rotate > rotate template by... menu item.

10. For a 9ft LH switch, enter n-48. For a 12ft LH switch, enter n-64. For a 15ft LH switch, enter n-80. Refer to the tutorial for an explanation.

11. Click do > blank up to peg menu item.

12. Zoom in on the nose of the V-crossing. Using the F6 mouse action, adjust the 2nd transition radius until the fine-point marker is on the dummy centre-line. (Press the @ key to get finer mouse response if required).

13. If not already, click real > timbering > equalized incremental menu item for the timbering style.

14. Depending on how fussy you want to be, you can now work along the template shoving timbers to square them up to the centre-line. Click the real > shove timbers menu item.

15. First click the  รท  angle datum button, so that entered angles are relative to the template datum instead of the main-road centre line:

y_symm_shove1.pngy_symm_shove1.png


16. Select each timber in turn (click the timber number) and then click on the twist dimension:

 y_symm_shove2.pngy_symm_shove2.png


17. For each timber, enter n48 , n64 or n80 according to the previous template rotation (but this time without the minus sign). If you copy this value (CTRL-C), you will be able to quickly paste it in place for each timber:

y_symm_shove3.pngy_symm_shove3.png


18. Then store & background when you are happy with the timbering.

Now to insert the switch front as a separate partial template:

19. Click do > parking bay > retrieve "template" menu item (see 4. above).

20. Click geometry > peg positions > peg on TP menu item or press CTRL-2.

21. Click do > snap to peg menu item.

22. Finally store & background again.

Remember to delete the original dummy centre-line template.

regards,

Martin.



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