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--- block-signaling-en [2019/01/05 18:20] – smitt48
+++ block-signaling-en [2019/01/06 11:38] – [Open Block] besra
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-| Main line with "Open Blocks" (bk1, bk2, bk3): Signals show line clear or advance warning |
+| Main line with "Open Blocks" (bk2, bk3, bk4): Signals show line clear or advance warning |
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 === Setting up an Open Block ===
-To convert a Closed Block into an Open Block the block properties are opened (e.b. by right clicking on the block symbol and selecting **Properties...** from the context menu). On tab **Signals** the check box **Open Block** is activated. Afterwards the appropriate "next block" is selected from the drop-down list.
+In Rocrail an Open Block is formed by converting the previous block's main signal into the entry signal of the block.
-The example above shows the blocks bk1, bk2, bk3 and bk4. For block bk1 the settings are as shown in the below figure:
+In the above example blocks bk2, bk3 and bk4 were converted. To make bk2 an Open Block, the block properties of the previous block, bk1, are opened (e.b. by right clicking on the block symbol and selecting **Properties...** from the context menu). On tab **Signals** the check box **Open Block** is activated. Afterwards the appropriate "next block", bk2, is selected from the drop-down list:
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 | Selecting the "next block", bk2 |
+Note that signal sg1 in block bk1 is thereby converted into the entry signal of bk2 and bk2 is the Open Block.
 Accordingly in bk2 the next block is bk3, in bk3 the next block is bk4.
-| Note that there must be __one "next block" only__ seen in the direction of the route: If the line branches two or more routes exit the block. Thus, there's not only one but two (or more) "next blocks". In this case an Open Block is not suitable. |
+| There must be __one "next block" only__ seen in the direction of the route: If the line branches two or more routes exit the block. Thus, there's not only one but two (or more) "next blocks". In this case an Open Block is not suitable. |
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