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15 The Visual Dispatcher II
15.1 Manually created Block Diagrams
In section 5.2, “Blocks and Routes”, you have been made familiar with block diagrams.
These diagrams contain block and routes between blocks and describe the track layout
of your entire model railroad in rough outline.
Normally each block diagram is associated with a switchboard and automatically
created by the software by using the information contained in this switchboard. It is also
possible to draw additional block diagrams by yourself and to create custom block diagrams.
In Part I of this Users Guide it was always assumed, that block diagrams are automatically
calculated by the software. In rare situations, however, it may be necessary,
to extend these automatically created diagrams by self-drawn, custom block diagrams.
Custom block diagrams are required, if a part of the layout will be integrated into the
block system of the dispatcher, which cannot easily be represented in a switchboard
track diagram. One example is the use of the Müt Lok-Lift.
It is also possible to extend an automatically created block diagram by your own objects
by turning the calculated block diagram into a custom block diagram.
TrainController offers the following features to manage your block diagrams:
• Creation of a calculated block diagram for each switchboard.
• Deletion of not needed or empty block diagrams. An empty block diagram does not
contain any blocks. Empty block diagrams can be generated, if a switchboard does
not contain any block symbols.
• Turning a calculated block diagram into a custom diagram to allow extension with
self-drawn objects.
• Turning a custom block diagram back into a calculated block diagram, if the diagram
was originally created as a calculated block diagram for a certain switchboard.
These features should only be used in exceptional cases and by experienced users,
because they may cause serious impacts on your layout data.
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