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posted: 23 Mar 2017 17:51

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johndon
 
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I'm relatively new at Templot but I think I've got the hang of the basics.  The image below is part of a track plan I'm developing. So far, I've been concentrating on getting the turnouts in the right place and I've been using plain track just to get everything lined up.
As you can see from the screenshot, there needs to a a diamond at the top left and, in the centre, what I guess would be an outside single slip?  Question, is, how do I get from the simple overlays that I've done so far to the actual formations?

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posted: 23 Mar 2017 18:50

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Phil O
 
Plymouth - United Kingdom

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The way I would go ab out the diamond is to make a copy of one of the roads and insert a half diamond and adjust the overal length to bring the 'V" into the correct place and then use the F9 & F10 buttons to get an exact fit, once happy use tools make diamond and then use the F buttons again to adjust the fit. I then save those templates and select and shorten the template that I used the copy off to make the exit road and finally select the other template that forms the crosing road, move the peg to some where onder the daiamond and make split, adjust each half in turn to make the other two exit roads.

Check out the make single slip video to make the inside slip.The outside slip will need a number of partial turnout templates to achieve what you need. I have not needed to make an outside slip yet and so is outside of my experience.

Best of Luck.

Phil
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posted: 23 Mar 2017 19:09

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Phil O wrote:
The way I would go ab out the diamond is to make a copy of one of the roads and insert a half diamond and adjust the overal length to bring the 'V" into the correct place and then use the F9 & F10 buttons to get an exact fit...
Hi Phil,

I'm not clear why you are doing all that? :?

From two overlaid plain track templates, it is just peg/align tools > make diamond-crossing at intersection.

Have one template as the control template and the other as the background template. Click on the background template to get the above menu item.

This works unless the resulting diamond is shorter than 1:1.5.

regards,

Martin.

posted: 23 Mar 2017 19:31

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johndon
 
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Thanks Phil & Martin, that's the diamond crossing done, now for the slip :)

John

posted: 23 Mar 2017 21:14

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Hi John,

Some notes about creating an outside slip here:

 topic 2931 - message 20789

regards,

Martin.

posted: 24 Mar 2017 09:35

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Phil O
 
Plymouth - United Kingdom

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Martin Wynne wrote:
Phil O wrote:
The way I would go ab out the diamond is to make a copy of one of the roads and insert a half diamond and adjust the overal length to bring the 'V" into the correct place and then use the F9 & F10 buttons to get an exact fit...
Hi Phil,

I'm not clear why you are doing all that? :?

From two overlaid plain track templates, it is just peg/align tools > make diamond-crossing at intersection.

Have one template as the control template and the other as the background template. Click on the background template to get the above menu item.

This works unless the resulting diamond is shorter than 1:1.5.

regards,

Martin.
Hi Martin

I thought there might be a quicker way, but I had not found it.

Thanks

Phil

posted: 27 Mar 2017 23:36

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Tony W
 
North Notts. - United Kingdom

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Hi Phil.
I'm surprised you were not aware of this facility in Templot 2 as it has been available for some time now.
If you have not already tried it out, it is really quite impressive to watch.
Regards
Tony.
Last edited on 27 Mar 2017 23:37 by Tony W
posted: 28 Mar 2017 12:29

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Ariels Girdle
 
 

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Using old, familiar F keys and not browsing through menus makes it easy to miss new features. Last week I showed someone how to make an ordinary crossover - he had been doing it manually for years without being aware of the possibility of doing it automatically.

posted: 29 Mar 2017 17:11

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Ariels Girdle wrote:
Using old, familiar F keys and not browsing through menus makes it easy to miss new features. Last week I showed someone how to make an ordinary crossover - he had been doing it manually for years without being aware of the possibility of doing it automatically.
More about this here:

 topic 3001

Martin.



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