How to use?
Windows Version 'Insert Menu Add-on' for POV-Ray:
   After having installed this add-on, all you have to do for building your own new scene is:
Step 0: Click on "New" button and you get a new white sheet for a scene text. Click on "Save" choose a good name (without anything than normal ASCII characters!) and save this empty text file like you save any normal text file but ending with ".pov" (The editor used with POV-Ray for Windows will do this automatically!).
Step 1: Click on "Insert Menu", "Basic templates", "Ready_made scenes" and choose one of the scenery backgrounds (Do this only one time in a scene!).
Step 2: You move your cursor at the end of the text! (Don't forget this - otherwise you ... will see not very much!) Click on "Insert Menu", "Basic templates" "Shapes with textures" and choose the shape you want to add in your scene.
Step 3: Click on "Run" button and you will see this scene rendered.
All shapes have colors and other surface properties in textures statements. All shapes also have vanilla transformations like scale<1,1,1>, rotate<0,0,0>, translate<0,0,0>. This makes it very easy, to play around with them and gain experience, because you can't make so much errors in spelling and punctuation.

HTML-Version / Online-Version for all POV-Ray versions:
   Unzip the compressed file of the HTML-Version and open the file '_index.htm'
with any webbrowser parallel to your POV-Ray Scene Editor.
No automatic insert available - we have to insert the templates by 'Cut and Paste'.
Klick on the thumbnail image of the element you want to insert. A new browser window with the according template text file will open. Pick from this browser window (mark it and hit CTRL-C) the whole text from the browser window by 'Cut (CTRL-C) and Paste(CTRL-V)' and paste it with CTRL-V in your scene file where you want it to be inserted.

HTML Version of the Insert Menu Add-on:
The HTML Version can be used with all operating systems for inserting templates by 'cut and paste'.
Download the file "00_Basic_Templates_HTML.zip" (7.729 kB)   Update: 30-Aug-2016
Unzip it to any directory you want. Start reading by opening '_index.htm' in your webbrowser.
Continue the downloading and installing with the include file collections
by the following steps: 'Download my macro include files and height_field images'.

How to install the Insert Menu Add-on with POV-Ray for Windows:

Attention please: If you have installed an older version of the "Basic templates", you should cancel or rename this version. Otherwise you will get a chaotic mixture of old and new text template files!

Step 1:   Download my Insert Menu Add-on for Windows with the file
"Basic_templates_37.zip" (8.077 kB) 30-Aug-2016 POV-Ray3.7 only! (images .jpg).
"Basic_templates_36.zip" (18.830 kB) Update: 06-April-2013 (images .bmp).
and copy this file to your Insert Menu directory in your POV-Ray directory, normally
POV-Ray 3.62: Windows XP "C:\Programs\POV-Ray for Windows v3.6\Insert Menu\"
                       Win Vista: "C:\Users\MY_NAME\Documents\POV-Ray\v3.6\Insert Menu\"
POV-Ray 3.7:   Windows XP/Vista/Winows 7:"..\Documents\POV-Ray\v3.6 or v3.7\Insert Menu\"
Extract this file using "Extract to ... " in folder "Insert Menu" the subdirectory "00 - Basic templates".
You will get the following
structur of subdirectories:
..Insert Menue
... \00 - Basic templates
..........\10 - Ready-made scenes
..........\20 - Basic shapes round
..........\21 - Basic shapes angular
...... ...\30 - Shapes2
..........\35 - Shapes3
..........\36 - shapes_lo2     (! 'shapes_lo2.zip')
..........\40 - Special shapes
..........\50 - CSG operations
..........\55 - Shape modifiers
..........\60 - Transformations
..........\70 - While Loops, For Loops
..........\75 - Spline Curves, sphere_sweep
..........\80 - Math functions
..........\85 - Analytical Geometry (needs: 'analytical_g.inc'!)
..........\90 - Directives
..........\A0 - Include files
..........\B0 - Random
..........\C0 - Animation
..........\D0 - Colors
..........\E0 - Textures + Materials
..........\H0 - Lights, skies, fogs, rainbow
..........\I0 - Cameras
..........\K0 - Radiosity and Photons
..........\L0 - Expressions
..........\M0 - Statements

Step 2:  

Ready-made Objects for POV-Ray -
"pov_objects1.zip" (161 kB),   Update: 04-May-2014.
Save the files unzipped in the documents directory "/POV-Ray/v3.7/Include/"
or in the directory of your scene files in use (Extension: ".pov")
or in any other directory listed in "POVRAY.INI" as a valid "Library_Path".
Some of these POV-Ray Objects additionally need my include file "shapes_lo.inc".
Download POV-Ray objects for railway / railroad
Railtrack elements for my Rail-Track-System:
"RT_System.zip" (64 kB),   Update: 07-April-2013.
Railway / railroad wheels and axes: "RW_System.zip" (10 kB),   New: 24-Aug-2012.
Save the files unzipped in the documents directory "/POV-Ray/v3.7/Include/"
or in the directory of your scene files in use (Extension: ".pov")
or in any other directory listed in "POVRAY.INI" as a valid "Library_Path".
Some of these POV-Ray Objects additionally need my include file "shapes3.inc".
According Insert Menu Add-ons for POV-Ray Objects
with template texts and preview thumbnail images for comfortable use,
For POV-Ray 3.6 (thumbnails in 'bmp'):
  "Ready_made_Objects_36.zip" (3 282 kB),   Update: 09-Aug-2013.
For POV-Ray 3.7 (thumbnails in 'jpg'):
  "Ready_made_Objects_37.zip" (1 641 kB),   Update: 04-Jan-2014.
Save thes files unzipped in the documents directory
"POV-Ray/v3.6/Insert Menu/" resp. "POV-Ray/v3.7/Insert Menu/".

HTML version of Insert Menu Add-ons for the POV-Ray Objects
"01_Objects_lo_HTML.zip"(1 946 kB)   Update: 04-Jan-2014.
Unzip it to the same directory as '00_Basic_Templates_HTML.zip' from here above. Start reading by opening '_index.htm' in your webbrowser.