Route Around Intervening

Gallery / Inter-section Routing

A line skips a middle section: it routes around the intervening section's bbox rather than slicing through it.

Mermaid source

examples/topologies/route_around_intervening.mmd

%%metro title: Route Around Intervening
%%metro style: dark
%%metro line: trunk | Trunk | #0570b0
%%metro line: skip | Skip | #e63946

%%metro grid: source | 0,0
%%metro grid: middle | 1,0
%%metro grid: target | 2,0

graph LR
    subgraph source [Source]
        s1[Input]
        s2[Output]
        s1 -->|trunk,skip| s2
    end

    subgraph middle [Middle]
        m1[Process]
        m2[Output]
        m1 -->|trunk| m2
    end

    subgraph target [Target]
        t1[Collect]
        t2[Report]
        t1 -->|trunk,skip| t2
    end

    s2 -->|trunk| m1
    m2 -->|trunk| t1
    s2 -->|skip| t1

CLI command

nf-metro render examples/topologies/route_around_intervening.mmd -o route_around_intervening.svg

Rendered map