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posted: 16 Jan 2009 20:38 from: Alan McMillan
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Hi I thought you might like to see the progress on my Swiss layout plan, based (very) loosely on Montreux before its rebuilding in 1996, but greatly added to by me and now renamed Anderbad. Alan McMillan |
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posted: 16 Jan 2009 21:21 from: Alan McMillan
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I've reposted my layout plan as a zip file to reduce its size Alan McMillan |
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posted: 16 Jan 2009 21:48 from: Martin Wynne
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Hi Alan, Wow! 533 templates! That's an epic production by any reckoning. It's looking great. Best wishes for the building of it, and please post progress reports for us. So that's two 40ft layouts posted here on one day. Something in the air? regards, Martin. |
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posted: 16 Jan 2009 21:51 from: Alan McMillan
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Thanks Martin! I have to say I'm particularly pleased with the various irregular diamonds in there! | ||
posted: 16 Jan 2009 22:00 from: Jim Guthrie
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Swissrail wrote: HiAlan, You'll be the world expert on double slip making at the end of building that one. And I see you've got a bit of narrow gauge track thrown in for good luck. I note that it is to P87. Whose track will you be using? Jim. |
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posted: 16 Jan 2009 23:04 from: Alan McMillan
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Hi Jim I'll be using Tillig Elite track for the plain stuff and ply and rivet for everything else. It's going to take a while! Regards Alan |
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posted: 17 Jan 2009 08:26 from: Raymond
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Most impressive Alan, it must be taking almost as long to draw this lot as it will take you to build it! How do you cope with all the 'no name' titles? Regards Raymond |
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posted: 17 Jan 2009 11:04 from: Alan McMillan
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Raymond wrote: Most impressive Alan, it must be taking almost as long to draw this lot as it will take you to build it! Hi Raymond Thank you for your kind comments! I've been working on this plan now for two or three months and I have to say it is a huge amount of fun using Templot. It took me a while to get to grips with it but then something clicked and what you see now is the result! I'm addicted to playing with it - my partner would tell you how difficult it is now for her to get near the computer! Anyway, to answer your question... I found very early on that with the huge number of partial templates I used on this plan for irregular diamonds, scissors crossovers and curved slips, aside from not being abIe to come up with sufficient usefully identifiable or meaningful names, there were just too many of them and they got in the way, so I hide them at the start of each session. (Just look at my plan when it's first loaded and you'll see the dense concentration of them over each of the complex formations on the plan) So what I do is simply highlight the template I want on the background, or one close to it if it's buried among lots of others. I then open the storage box which is now showing that template and then I use the back/forward arrows to get to the one I want so I can use the storage box's "wipe to the control" button. If I want to duplicate that template for any reason, I the use the "re-store and background" button on the main menu which creates an unused copy of the template (in blue) at the end of the template list in the storage box. Hope this helps. Regards Alan |
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posted: 17 Jan 2009 11:50 from: Martin Wynne
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Swissrail wrote:So what I do is simply highlight the template I want on the background, or one close to it if it's buried among lots of others. I then open the storage box which is now showing that template and then I use the back/forward arrows to get to the one I want so I can use the storage box's "wipe to the control" button.Hi Alan, Even with the name labels switched off (END key), if you hold down the SHIFT key and run the mouse pointer over the templates, the name labels will reappear under the mouse and the templates will be highlighted. You can then click the name label to get the template's menu. You can also click bat name label on that menu to move a label out of the way, if it is obscuring a label below. With such a large number of templates you may find that normal panning is slow. A handy trick is to use the CTRL+LEFT-CLICK function to re-centre the pad on the mouse pointer. If you put the mouse pointer near an edge or corner of the screen, and then do CTRL + left click repeatedly, you can "walk" the pad in that direction more quickly than using the panning controls. I'm glad you are enjoying using Templot. regards, Martin. |
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posted: 17 Jan 2009 14:03 from: Paul Boyd
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That really is something spectacular. Right now, I'm struggling with irregular diamonds so I was particularly interested to see how you've done it. Basically, a darn sight more partial templates than I had patience to play with! You've now inspired me to do it properly |
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posted: 17 Jan 2009 20:44 from: Alan McMillan
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Thanks for your pointers Martin, I didn't know about those little wrinkles! And yes Templot is enormous fun - thank you for writing such a great piece of software! I know a lot of requests have been made for refinements that create things like irregular diamonds with a single click, but for my money, the fun's in doing it from scratch! As an aside, I'm off to Italy now for a week's ski-ing, so my apologies if people don't get any replies from me. Regards Alan |
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posted: 17 Jan 2009 20:46 from: Alan McMillan
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Paul Boyd wrote: That really is something spectacular. Right now, I'm struggling with irregular diamonds so I was particularly interested to see how you've done it. Basically, a darn sight more partial templates than I had patience to play with! I'm glad to have unwittingly helped Paul. It is a huge amount of fun creating all these odd formations from first principles! Regards Alan |
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