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Quick update on templot progress

Vistisen

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We are getting there.

 

A quick concentrated burst of energy and the Easyrail design is now Templotized:
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Major differences between the Anyrail version and the Templot one is that the track centres are reduced fra the Tillig standard (59mm) to 50 mm. The whole of the main line section is now on a gentle curve of about 43' in radius :-) Which is still sharper than in reality. The main line curve was 70 chains, Which by my reckoning is about 60' in 4mm to a foot. The whole of the branch station is pushed back a bit as it was in reality compared to the original Anyrail version.

 

Update I wasn't finished anyway. After playing with the dummy vehicles that Martin told me about, a bit I decided that 50mm was too close on the sharper curves. I might want to use rule one and run HST's with mark3 coaches. and they did not fit 80cm curves at 50mm distance. but they do now that I have stretched the curves to 59mm

 

This plan is very simple with nothing other than turnouts and crossovers. so I know that I am only scratching the surface on Templot. Every time I want to do something new I find that there is always a way, it’s not just always, well to be honest its NEVER the way you’d think. But then I think of the age of the software. If it was written in the late 70’s, then it predates the IBM PC. What hardware was it written to run on? I would love to have seen in then It must have been cutting edge in its time. I suspect that the maths involved are still cutting edge. But the GUI…

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Richard Jones

Persevere - Templot is a great tool, but you have to put the effort in to learn how to use it - the trouble is that as we (in general) don't do many layouts, you forget by the time you come round to the next one! Anyway, I am absolutely certain I couldn't have planned and built all the point work for my layout without Templot. Now just to build the baseboards!

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Every time I want to do something new I find that there is always a way, it’s not just always, well to be honest it's NEVER the way you’d think. But then I think of the age of the software. If it was written in the late 70’s, then it predates the IBM PC. What hardware was it written to run on? I would love to have seen it then. It must have been cutting edge in its time. I suspect that the maths involved are still cutting edge. But the GUI…

It has developed a lot since then, but as you say the maths is still much the same. It was a long time after the arrival of the IBM PC before I was persuaded to get one and port Templot onto it. When I discovered that accidentally pressing Ctrl+S could overwrite and lose hours of work, it very nearly went out of the window. You can read the history of the early years of Templot here:

 

 http://templot.com/martweb/templot_history.htm

 

Martin.

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Even the 'history of page' is 16 years old. This is serious software history :-)

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