Shared Cell Fork Trunk Align

Gallery / Inter-section Routing

Three sections share one grid cell along a row. The tall pre-processing fan pushes its flow trunk below the row's top edge, and the quantification section carries a full-bundle pass-through (the branch continuing to the exit) beside a coverage dead-end chain. The engine aligns the row so the through-bundle runs straight across, seats the continuing pass-through on the trunk in line with the preceding exit, and peels the coverage dead-end off below -- rather than letting the dead-end seize the trunk and kink the through-line at the boundary.

Mermaid source

%%metro title: Shared-cell fork trunk alignment
%%metro style: nfcore
%%metro diamond_style: straight
%%metro file: cov_out | BW | Coverage
%%metro line: main | Main | #e6007e
%%metro line: side | Side fork | #2db572
%%metro grid: prep, mid, quant | 0,0
%%metro grid: report | 1,0
%%metro grid: branch | 1,1

graph LR
    subgraph prep [Pre-processing]
        %%metro exit: right | main
        p_in[Input]
        p_hub[Hub]
        p_up[Up branch]
        p_mid[Mid branch]
        p_down[Down branch]
        p_merge[Merge]
        p_in -->|main| p_hub
        p_hub -->|main| p_up
        p_hub -->|main| p_mid
        p_hub -->|main| p_down
        p_up -->|main| p_merge
        p_mid -->|main| p_merge
        p_down -->|main| p_merge
    end
    subgraph mid [Middle]
        %%metro entry: left | main
        %%metro exit: right | main
        m_a[Stage A]
        m_b[Stage B]
        m_a -->|main| m_b
    end
    subgraph quant [Quantification]
        %%metro entry: left | main
        %%metro exit: right | main, side
        q_split[Split]
        q_depth[Depth]
        q_pass[Passthrough]
        q_split -->|main| q_depth
        q_depth -->|main| cov_out
    end
    subgraph report [Report]
        %%metro entry: left | main
        r_a[Report]
    end
    subgraph branch [Branch]
        %%metro entry: left | side
        b_a[Side stage]
    end
    p_merge -->|main| m_a
    m_b -->|main| q_split
    m_b -->|main| q_pass
    q_pass -->|main| r_a
    q_pass -->|side| b_a

CLI command

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

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