TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

Diagram 94: Block Diagram in the Visual Dispatcher
Blocks are displayed on the computer screen by rectangular boxes. The blocks are connected
to each other by routes, which touch each box graphically at a smaller side.
These routes are drawn as lines.
Please note that the block diagram represents the track layout in rough outline. The actual
track connection between “Main Line West” and “Hidden Yard 3”, for example,
contains two turnouts. These turnouts are not drawn in the block diagram in detail or as
separate objects. Instead a line between the blocks is created, that indicates, that there is
a track connection between the blocks.
In order to enable TrainController to calculate the block diagram automatically note
the following:
• Draw the complete track diagram of your layout with all turnouts and crossings and
without any gaps in a switchboard window.
• Create block symbols for all blocks of the layout, place them according to their location
on the actual layout and ensure, that they are turned horizontally or vertically
according to the track symbols, to which they are attached.
• Ensure that the blocks are connected to each other by track symbols without any
gaps. The connecting tracks must touch the blocks at the smaller sides.
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