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Turnout function (Railworks Library)

maira_a — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:39:18 GMT

[ FlexSim 22.2.0 ]

How can i represent a turnout function in the RailWorks Library? I need to avoid collisions in situations like that, making the other train choose a different way.

Re: Turnout function (Railworks Library)

pedro_o — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:06:07 GMT

Hi Maira,

You can control the locomotive destination via the MoveTrain processflow activity, the solution in the case pointed by the model "teste_amv2.fsm" would be to create a MoveTrain activity that has the "Rail4" object as its destination for one of the locomotives.

Then the other locomotive can pass throught the "Rail2", and when it does, you trigger another MoveTrain to get the waiting locomotive to the initial destiny (RailControlPoint1 for the TrainSource1 locomotive and RailControlPoint2 for the TrainSource2 locomotive).

This kind of maneuver is created through logic on Processflow.

I hope it helps.

Re: Turnout function (Railworks Library)

andrew_o2 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 23:16:49 GMT

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Re: Turnout function (Railworks Library)

maira_a — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:54:58 GMT

Hi @Pedro Ortelani,

Thank you so much for your answer, but I can't fixed the railway that the train will take, i would like that it happens automatically avoiding collisions between the trains.

Re: Turnout function (Railworks Library)

maira_a — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 20:00:02 GMT

I thought that the auto adjustment existent in the Route Algorithms turn the library able to do that.

https://docs.flexsim.com/en/22.1/modules/RailWorks/manual/RouteAlgorithms.html

Re: Turnout function (Railworks Library)

maira_a — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 12:38:19 GMT

Hi @Andrew O ,

I've asked him about my doubt. Waiting for an answer, thank you.

Re: Turnout function (Railworks Library)

lucas_klein83QQC — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:51:46 GMT

Hi Maira, sorry for the delay to answer your question.

Thanks for your feedback, this indeed might be a bug in the route algorithm. We are working on it for the next release

Re: Turnout function (Railworks Library)

maira_a — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:42:28 GMT

Hi Lucas, thank you for your answer!