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13 The Visual Dispatcher II
13.1 The manually created Main Block Diagram
In section 5.2, “Blocks”, you have been made familiar with the main block diagram.
This diagram contains blocks as well as the routes and track connections (links) between
blocks. and describes the track layout of your entire model railroad in rough outline.
The block diagram can be drawn by yourself or automatically created by the software.
In Part I of this Users Guide it was always assumed, that the block diagram is automatically
calculated by the software. This is very simple, convenient and useful for small
and medium size layouts, where the track plan of the entire layout fits into one single
switchboard, which is used as the base to calculate the block diagram.
Advanced users, however, may desire not to be limited by the conditions, that apply to
the automatic calculation of the block diagram. These are:
• The complete track diagram of the layout with all turnouts and crossings must be
drawn without any gaps in one single switchboard.
• Traffic boxes must be created in this switchboard for all blocks of the layout.
• The blocks must be connected by track symbols without any gaps.
In cases were it is desired to split the track diagram into several switchboards in order to
control several yards with individual panels or in cases, were users do not like traffic
boxes to be displayed in the switchboard it is useful to create or edit the block diagram
manually.
TrainController offers this possibility.
But even if your layout is large and you intend from the beginning, to create your block
diagram yourself, it is useful to start from scratch with a calculated block diagram for
an important part of your layout, such as the main station. Draw this station in the
switchboard displayed in the main window of TrainController and let the software
automatically calculate the block diagram for this part of the layout. Whenever you
want you can turn off the automatic calculation of the block diagram and edit and extend
the existing block diagram yourself.
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