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Time Distance Diagrams → Diagram Editor |
With the aid of the diagram editor
you can build up a new time distance diagram or edit an existing one.
It is placed in the upper part of the main window.
The positions of the railway stations in a diagram are marked by vertical lines.
At the top of each line a text input field is displayed with the name of the station.
By selecting a text input field, it gets the focus and its content is editable
(see Figure 8).
Figure 8
A timetable consists of a set of breakpoints. Each breakpoint has a distance coordinate and a
time coordinate. Usually they are intersections with the station lines.
The time coordinates are arrival times or
departure times at a certain station. The distance coordinates are the corresponding station positions.
In a time distance diagram the
timetables are represented by curves. In the training module the breakpoints are highlighted by filled
circles along a curve (see Figure 9).
The unhighlighted intersections with the station lines are no breakpoints.
By selecting a beakpoint with the left mouse button the corresponding timetable is selected
(see Figure 9).
Figure 9
By using the menu item Time Distance Diagram → Check Diagram you can check your current time distance diagram of correctness and consistency with the map. After the selection of the menu item an annotation is shown in the online help frame which informs you about the result of the checking. For this feature the online help frame must be opened first.
The next subsection describes how to create a station in the diagram and the map, respectively.
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