B9 Double Slip Switch Blade Positioning

[IanLMS]

Quick question and apologies if its been raised before, but i couldnt find anything via the search.
I will be building a B9 double slip for my new P4 layout and the full track plan has been built in Templot.

On the plan i printed out, it shows the double slip (attached extract). One thing i am puzzled by is the location of the switch blades (circled). It looks like it is requiring the stock rails to be planed which looks like they are now a switch blade but located on the outside and linked to the inner blade via 2 seperate tiebars?

Am i looking at it completely wrong? Or misunderstanding how a d/s works?
I have only built one point to date, so very much a novice so please excuse my ignorance. I am used to Peco d/s which have both sets of switch blades inside the stock rails.

Thank you
Ian

 

[Martin Wynne]

Quick question and apologies if its been raised before, but i couldnt find anything via the search.
I will be building a B9 double slip for my new P4 layout and the full track plan has been built in Templot.

On the plan i printed out, it shows the double slip (attached extract). One thing i am puzzled by is the location of the switch blades (circled). It looks like it is requiring the stock rails to be planed which looks like they are now a switch blade but located on the outside and linked to the inner blade via 2 seperate tiebars?

Am i looking at it completely wrong? Or misunderstanding how a d/s works?
I have only built one point to date, so very much a novice so please excuse my ignorance. I am used to Peco d/s which have both sets of switch blades inside the stock rails.

Thank you
Ian

@IanLMS

Hi Ian,

Welcome to Templot Club.

To correct the issue, click this menu item on the storage box:

Slip templates are drawn by overlaying the switch blades on diamond-crossing templates. This looks right only if the half-diamond templates are drawn first. That happens automatically after using the make slip functions. But if you make subsequent changes to the half-diamond templates, you need to use the above function to move them back to the top of the list where they will get drawn first.

cheers,

Martin.

 

[IanLMS]

Thank you Martin. Will give that a try later. Much appreciated. Ian