Stumpytrain wrote: I've been playing with Templot a lot recently and I'm feeling a lot more confident. Whilst I agree it's good to learn from mistakes I was hoping someone could suggest a good route to build up my track plan.

Where should I start, the simple crossover and work from there?Hi Alex,

There are no fixed rules.

Beginners in Templot tend to go for the brick-by-brick approach, possibly using the F7 snapping function to "clip" individual templates together, in a similar manner to other track-planning programs. This method is simple and quick, but it can produce a disjointed "train-set" look if you are not careful.

More experienced users prefer to lay out the broad sweep of the running lines first, and then insert the turnout templates in them (or align the templates over them). This is the classic way to use Templot and the most likely to produce a prototypical sweeping feel to pointwork.

Or you can use whatever mixture of methods suits your own way of thinking and working. There are always several different ways to arrive at a similar result.

This video shows some of the basic track planning functions in Templot:

starter video

regards,

Martin.