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With the saw you can do two things:

1.) Cutting off of a piece of the track that is created by the continuous generator.

2.) Cutting off of a piece of a dynamic (that is not turnable).

Cutting off of a track

You can only cut crosswise to the track. The cut off piece will become a dynamic which properties can be adjusted on the edit mask of the continuous generator in 'dynamics’.

So that the saw has got any effect to the track two prerequisites have to be met: 1.) it has to overlapp with the track and 2.) the PLC-bit of the saw has to be on ‘1’ (or the check box ‘always 1’ has to be clicked). Just if both prerequisites come true the saw will be called ‘active’ in the following.

To do cuttings you have to move the saw through the track. The point with that the saw cuts actually is exactly in its middle. A cut is started as soon as the saw gets active for the first time. The piece is cut off when the first and the last point of intersection lay on opposite sides of the track. Internally seen a cut is completely done not until the saw is not active anymore. The piece can already be cut off at that time but a new cut is only started after the saw has been inactive at least for a short time. If the saw gets inactive before the cut has been done it will be turned down that means that you cannot stop and continue the started cut later on.

You can cut a track with two orientations. You can cut a track that goes eastwards for example from the top to the bottom or from south to north. By the direction the track is cut completely by the saw for the first time you adjust in TrySim with which orientation it is cut.

To cut from the top to the bottom you have to make the saw a little wider as the track. To cut from south to north it is enough to make the saw a little thicker than the track.

Even if you do a cut that is not straight the created dynamic as well as the rest of the track will be rectangular.

Cutting off of a piece of a dynamic

Essentially this is the same as cutting off a track. Merely there is a little different rule for the direction of cutting and orientation, because there is no generator with a dynamic, that gives a direction.

This rule will be the easiest to describe if you shape the saw like a bar and imagine it is the blade of a compass saw: On the side which gets a first cut that extends the whole width the cut starts. It stops not until the saw blade comes out the opposite side. The orientation of the cut happens automatically then.

This element is still at the experimental stage. Suggestions out of practice for improvement are welcome.

To devide a dynamic (not a track) into equally pieces you can use the divider as well.