Templot track plan tutorial page 8

This tutorial is over 20 years old, it is completely out of date, and is shown here for interest only.

Please refer to the Templot Companion User Guide for current information.

Page 8.

We have reached our destination:

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Click control > storage box to see the list of the templates which we have created. Click the edit > box title... menu item on the storage box to give this track plan a name. Then click the save all... button on the storage box, or the control > save all templates menu item on the pad to save a data file for it.

You will probably want to print it - click ink on paper to read the notes about printing track plans and construction templates.

There are several further additions and changes which could be made to improve this plan. Try these:
1. Another yard siding off the first : (hint: insert turnout in plain track).
2. A bay platform : (hints: in the "platform line" try tools > make split > make separate exit track, then insert turnout in plain track).
3. Swap the hand of the "engine release crossover-loop" turnout, so that the "loop end spur" becomes a siding in the yard or can be used for an engine shed : (hints: delete the turnout. wipe the other crossover turnout to current and temporarily re-align it with the platform line. make a return curve from it. insert a new turnout in plain track on the return curve, as for the works siding. delete the unwanted first turnout and restore the original one to the background using the storage box copy functions).

As it stands now, the timbering on this track plan is still in the "raw" state, with likely conflicts, incorrect spacings and overlaps at the template joins. When the track plan design has been finalised (and not before, or you will have to do it again!), the mis-placed timbers can be shoved to new positions, or omitted from the templates.

Click the adjust > shove timbers menu item (SHIFT-F10) to bring up the shove timbers window, and click the what? button on it to read the notes about how to adjust the size and position of individual timbers.

The templates in the data file _85a_tutorial_5.box have had their timbers shoved as an example.

Timbers can be shoved only on the current template, so it is necessary to work your way across the plan, clicking wipe to current for each template in turn, shoving timbers as necessary, and then storing them on the background again afterwards. Delete the unwanted unused templates from the storage box when you have finished.

That completes this tutorial sequence. Thanks for reading this far.

Martin.

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