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  • The Plug Track functions are experimental and still being developed.

    For an updated overview of this project see this topic.   For some practical modelling aspects of using Plug Track see Building 3D Track.

    The assumption is that you have your own machines on which to experiment, or helpful friends with machines. Please do not send Templot files to commercial laser cutting or 3D printing firms while this project is still experimental, because the results are unpredictable and possibly wasteful.

    Some pages of this and other topics include contributions from members who are creating and posting their own CAD designs for 3D printing and laser-cutting. Do not confuse them with Templot's own exported CAD files. All files derived from Templot are © Martin Wynne.

Separation points

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Jürgen Haase

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Paris
Hello,

Is there any possibility to show separation points in the plans, e.g. by very small bars across the tracks in colour and independently for each track? In this way, you could already draw the separation points on the plan, for turnouts, blocks, etc. and thus already plan them on the plan. At the moment I do it in such a way that I keep a small distance between the tracks where I plan a separation point. But that is awkward and quite time-consuming. In addition, I don't have the option of specifying only one side of the track or in the turnouts.

It might be good to colour the separation points with the possibility to show or hide them and the same for the printout.

Greetings from Paris,

Jürgen
 
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@Jürgen Haase

Hi Jürgen,

Thanks for your suggestion. Welcome to Templot Club. :)

I assume by separation points you mean locations, not turnouts?

And do you mean the location of uncoupling devices, or the clearing-point in converging tracks? Or something else?

For uncoupling devices, you could mark them on the templates using the symbols function. The various symbols mean whatever you choose them to mean. A sticker symbol is probably the most convenient to mark uncoupling magnets or ramps. More about the symbols function is at:

https://85a.uk/templot/club/index.php?threads/changes-in-templot-version-227.180/post-1566

index.php



If this hasn't covered your suggestion, please ask again. :)

cheers,

Martin.
 
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@Jürgen Haase

Hi Jürgen,

By "separation points" you mean isolation gaps? :)

The reason some of them are off the rail is that you have accidentally clicked this box:

symbol_on_check_rail.png


Which causes the symbol to be applied to an adjacent check rail (guard rail) instead of the running rail. Sorry, Templot doesn't check to see if there is actually a check rail there.

If you select one of those symbols (click on it, it will go white, or select it in the list), untick the above box, and then click the modify symbol button, it will jump on to the rail.

cheers,

Martin.
 
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