TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

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Migrating Turntables and Transfer Tables to TrainController 7 Gold
In TrainController 7 Gold turntables and transfer tables can now be easily integrated
into the operation of switchboards and automatic calculation of the block diagram.
This is taken into account during conversion of existing layout files by creating
an additional switchboard containing a single turntable symbol for each existing turntable
or transfer table. You should take advantage of these new possibilities by moving
this symbol to an appropriate location of your existing switchboards. Routes, that you
may have created in previous versions to involve your turntable into automatic operation,
are still working. They should be deleted, however. The necessary routes are now
automatically created by the software during the automatic calculation of the block diagram
for the switchboard, where the turntable symbol is finally located. Do not forget,
however, to assign the new routes to those existing schedules, which contain your turntable.
In TrainController 5 it was possible to assign feedback indicators to the bridge and
the tracks of each turntable or transfer table. This is no longer necessary in TrainController
7 Gold. Since the turntable symbol in the switchboard or block diagram
shows the status of the block, which is associated with the bridge, the new display is
much more informative now, because it shows also the train, which is currently located
on the bridge. Assignment of occupancy indication to the particular tracks is no longer
actually needed, too, because this information can be gathered from the display of the
adjacent blocks in the switchboard or block diagram. For this reason it is no longer
possible to assign feedback indicators to turntables or transfer tables newly created in
TrainController 7. Existing assignments, however, can be still edited via the Turntable
dialog for the time being.
The turn boundary, a difficult to understand feature of TrainController 5, has been
superseded by the much more plain approach of forward and backward tracks. Most objects,
that control a turnout via their operations and by using the old scheme of left and
right orientation, such as existing routes, are automatically converted to new operations
based on forward and backward operations. Some very specific and extremely rarely
used operations of previous versions, namely turning the bridge by inverting the train
orientation and turning the bridge by maintaining the train orientation are not supported
anymore and converted to moves of the bridge to the destination track on the direct
(shortest) way.
Migrating Turntables and Transfer Tables to TrainController 7 Silver
In TrainController 5 it was possible to integrate turntables and transfer tables into
automatic operation by means of operations, that are executed by other objects (e.g.
routes). With these operations it was not only possible to move the bridge to a specific