S2 E1 An Introduction to Templot
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2021
- In this video I take a look at the Templot software which I have been using to redesign the track at Bexhill West in P4 gauge.
Whilst doing so it occurred to me that others who might usually use commercial track might also benefit from having-a-go with Templot and using it to design a bespoke turnout or crossing to solve a problem where a suitable commercial product isn't available.
I still consider myself to be a novice Templot user, however there is lots of support and guidance available from the Templot website and forum.
Thanks for watching,
James - Розваги
I have seen some tutorials on UA-cam and questioned whether they really were. You said several times that this wasn't a tutorial, yet I have a better grasp of Templot than ever before.
Thank you. I think that sometimes it's just as useful to watch a simple demo. If one can appreciate that a task is achievable, that's often all that is required to stimulate some self-study. I find it rather irksome to watch a video tutorial, when the presenter is clearly doing the thing for the first time themselves.
I am still definitely a Templot novice - but enjoying the learning curve.
Thanks for watching,
James
Gotcha! You've taken the bait... Welcome to the obsession, you will enjoy the journey and we will all enjoy learning from it too! Templot AND Etching - I'm looking forward to this - Thank you.
Hook, line and sinker I'm afraid Freddie.
Thanks for watching. :)
Just watched Via RM Web ''new content'' ' A very interesting instruction on Templot which works I believe well for me to understand as at a good speed........Thank you.
Great explanations and examples.
I prefer seeing this to tutorials!
What a Great overview of what you can do with Templot ! Really encouraging , Thanks
Absolutely fascinating James. Thank you so much for bringing us along on the ride. Hope you’re well. 🙏
Thank you Nigel, I'm very well ta. :)
When you started out on this project I doubted you'd ever be happy with 16.5 mm gauge track, considering the attention you paid to the scale of the buildings.
Thats a very interesting programme, perfect for the fine scale modeller.
I wish I'd given the track more thought earlier on Richard. I'd done my best to modify the PECO track and it wasn't too bad. I'm hopeful that the extra work required to build my own track will pay-off when it comes to taking photographs of the model when it's completed. In my next video I'm going to show an example which I hope will justify the radical decision to change gauge.
All the best,
James
@@BexhillWest I think moving to P4 will make a lot of difference visually. The additional realism is quite noticeable on the layouts I’ve seen at model railway exhibitions, and since your track plan will closely follow the prototype it should look superb. Good luck with it - I’m looking forward to the next few videos.
One word - ‘brilliant’
Thank you Tom.
Great domnstration James and i am looking forward to treack building...............Cheers Kev
Just what I was looking for an overview of the software that covers the basics in a clear and structured way. The ability to form flowing formations and the build them, even to copy a premapped formation… many thanks
Cheers Phil, I'm glad you found the video of some interest. I think Templot is a superb piece of software.
Thanks for watching,
James
Like it very much thanks.
Not to say I told you so (re gauge), but ... I told you so. :)
Fantastic introduction to Templot. I hadn't heard of it before, and have now told myself in no uncertain terms not to get it, as I can well imagine I'd be looking at track plans on the nls maps website, start tracing in Templot, and then I'd suddenly notice it was 3am!
It really looks a perfect piece of software for modellers who are fed up of forcing their own track plans to conform to the limited geometries of commercially available track. I can imagine it that it will be particularly useful software for "diamond" crossings. (Have a look at the eastern station throat of Newcastle upon Tyne station on the 19th century 25" maps on maps.nls!)
Presumably if you trace a trackplan like you showed, Templot would then be able to show you just how big your baseboards would need to be, and you can curse that you haven't got something the size of Kensington Olympia in which to build the model!
Hi Andrew, you did tell me - I wish I'd listened to you months ago! :)
I've learned so much from using Templot already, and I am still very much a beginner. Hence me not going into too much detail which would soon expose my inexperience. :)
However, I'd read on-line that Templot can be tricky to use with a poor user interface, etc. But this simply isn't the case, it's ever so simple really - a work of genius given the complexity of the subject matter. That's why I made the video - in the hope that it might encourage others to take a look at it. My only wish would that it would work in 7 1/4" gauge too!
Thanks for watching,
James
@@BexhillWest I think the tricky to use mostly comes from it not following the typical windows interface model and so it can appear alien to some.
Once you get the hang of the basics it is pretty clear to get a simple formation drawn up and printed. The templot forum is a great resource with many helpful people who helped with the design for the Shepperton plans I was going to make. Fast forward past the pandemic and a house move combined with breaking my ankle in February has effectively halted those plans, but I intend to redraw them without the curve I had to use due to space constraints, so the plan will be much closer to the actual Shepperton. Before I get to that though I plan to build a small shunting layout based on the Harton electric railway as a simpler getting started exercise.
Great video. I designed a whole layout before I realised the easy way to adjust the turnout is to use F5 (turnout size). This changes the V angle and switch length at the same time so you get a prototypical length switch for the V angle.
Thank you Julian, that' a great tip. I love using Templot - everytime I have a play I am staggered by Martins' genius.
Thanks for watching,
James
SUPER END VERY BIUTIFUL 👍
Thank you very much
Another amazing video!
Thank you John
Impressive demonstration. It's given me some hope I can finally get to grips with templot! Looking forward to the next installment. Chris.
HI Chris, keep practicing - you'll get there.
Thanks for watching,
James
Really interested to know more!
There's plenty more to come in future episodes. :)
So James, this is going to be the same scale, but a different gauge. I think I've got that.
Oh my word, but it will be fun to follow along.
Yes, that's right, still 4mm scale but with the gauge increased to 18.83mm (P4). Hopefully the trackwork will look more realistic. By doing so, I will be able to make my E1 engine project much closer to scale too. I was finding that designing for OO gauge was compromising things a little too much for my liking.
The downside is that it's a lot of additional work, but I'm in no hurry and the end result will I hope justify the effort.
We shall have to wait and see.
Thanks for watching,
James
Here in the US, "turnout" is the almost universally accepted hobby term for track switches or points, the logic being that the word "switch," though correct railroad terminology, might be confused for an electrical switch. At least that's my understanding of it. Thanks for sharing your many talents.
I think turnout is strictly the correct term here, although I note that when the trains are delayed during the winter frozen 'points' are often the excuse.
Thank you Jeff, all the best.
@@BexhillWest Hi James. It is the moving points which get frozen. In railway-speak a "point" is a single moving switch blade, so-called because it is pointed. Two of them together make a "set of points" or "switch". A "turnout" consists of a set of points linked to a "V-crossing" or "common crossing" (or "frog" in American-speak) by means of "closure rails". In permanent-way design work, switches and crossings are the separate basic building blocks from which everything else is constructed. Hence the common term "S&C" for railway track design work. cheers, Martin.
Looking forward to this.
Thank you David.
All the best,
James
Me too.
Hello James
That is a very good introduction into Templot. I am so glad that you talked about the map download feature on this software as this is where I became somewhat stumped, as every time I tried to download the 1890 map of the station that I am trying to recreate it does not load properly for some reason.
At first I thought it was Templot that was the problem, but now I am of the thinking that it is my software on the PC and to be precise I strongly suspect that the culprit is windows 10 and this is what is causing this error and more importantly the source of my frustration with Templot.
I shall persevere with this because to recreate the stations that I am trying to model with their complex curves, turnouts and crossovers it is just to difficult on SCARM to reproduce the exact curvature and some of the bespoke turnouts and slips that I need. These cannot be swapped for the RTR types as this then changes the geometry of my stations as to my frustration on SCARM although it is a good tool for set track.
Thank you for taking the time to share this introduction into Templot.
Stay safe, keep sharing and model on.
Regards
Lee@NEAR
Hi Lee,
I'm still very much a Templot novice, but I found that with persistence, the penny finally drops and can now say without hesitation that I think it's one of the finest pieces of CAD software I've ever used. Of course it's limited to designing track components, but the way it does so, is so well thought-out and it speaks volumes to the technical understanding of Martin Wynne both of trackwork and computer programming. Some of the very recent developments such as being able to create 3d printer files directly from Templot are simply astounding - and educational!
I'm sure that when you overcome your technical difficulties you'll be absorbed recreating track layouts of all your favourite stations.
All the best,
James
If you haven't already, you might take a look at some of the UA-cam videos Robert Tolone produces about mould making and casting resin.
Hi, Great video and Thanks for the introduction to Templot, 2 years ago I made a 4 way diamond crossing in 00 gauge, by machining a template and PCB strips pictures on Baffled Beginners ...nightmare ... so Templot may help if I get problems ... I would be interested to find out how you got hold of the sleeperes and chairs as they look so realistic... Regards John
Hi John,
I think Templot is really helpful. There is a learning curve, but it's quite straightforward when one gets familiar with how it works. The sleepers and chairs are Exactoscale items which I purchased through the scalefour society.
Thanks for watching,
James
Nice introduction.
Your locomotive would need some of those shown waggons and correct name plate - would guess you already work on those ;)
Does templot know sleepers sitting direcly next to each other at rail joints (search "Doppelschwelle" to see what I mean) or are they unusual for British railway companys?
See you next episode!
I have some contractors wagons drawn-up and I'm sure they will make an appearance very soon.
I've looked up 'Doppeleschwelle', and see what you mean - a twin sleeper at the rail joint. I think they are unusual in the UK. It was usual practice for the regular sleepers to be placed closer together at rail joints with fishplated Bullhead track. These days the rail is welded and I think the sleepers are spaced as normal.
Templot allows the user to add/space the sleepers however they are required, so creating a Doppelschwelle would be no problem.
Thanks for watching,
James
Dear James,
I am still very much interested in purchasing your vacuum ballasting tool. Have you already had the opportunity to find out a way how we can order and pay from abroad?
Templot is a wonderful program, thanks for the tip. I will possibly use it to make some short narrow gauge field railway H0e turnouts with an electrofrog.
Regards, Rudolf from the Netherlands