Missing sockets

[Penrhos1920]

I'm continuing to experiment with plug track and I’m probably doing something it’s not meant to do. In the switch area of a template I’ve heaved some of the P chairs. On the stock rails I’ve substituted S or L chairs. In order to get chairs on the switch rails I’ve overlaid a couple of short templates, shoved timbers, heaved the chairs to L type and hidden the sleepers.

When it comes to printing the sleepers, the sockets for the chairs on the switch rails are omitted from the Brick. But if I print the sleepers as a group the sockets are present.

 

[Martin Wynne]

@Penrhos1920

Hi Richard,

Wow -- you are really plugged-in to plug track!

The reason those sockets are not printing is that there are 2 templates under here which have not been set as brick templates and given a matching brick colour:

p.s.1. to select those templates, hold down the SHIFT key and click on the name labels.

p.s.2. when heaving L1 chairs you need to be very careful to get them central on the underlying timber -- if the socket corners break through the side of the timber, they won't get printed.

Some of your webs and flanges are missing -- please untick this option, which isn't working properly:

I will get it fixed.

cheers,

Martin.

 

[Penrhos1920]

Martin, I’m giving plug track a really good try. I knew there was a simple answer! Thanks. I must have a look at the diamond bricks as there are 4 partial templates over the sleepers to get the pseudo K chairs.

I’m not too bothered by the missing webs and flanges. It’s part of my method to check the fixed stl: I look for them, check there’s a socket for every chair, check the clip is joined to a sleeper etc. I know I could wait for the printed brick, but having been a design engineer I’m used to checking it’s right before it goes to production. It was always embarrassing when the workshop found a problem with your design! I do miss the ensuing banter.