Rerouting Items

You can reroute an item that has an input.

The following items have an input and can be rerouted:

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Load your Manufacturing Assembly in the item editor.

Insert Between

You can insert a selected item between an input and an output item.

Select the Transform step tile in the graph.
Click Insert Between in the context toolbar.
Select the Provided Part as an input item, and the root Manufacturing Assembly as an output item.
The selected input and output items must be:
- Either siblings, at least one of them must have an input.
- Or, from a tree point of view, parent, and child.
The Transform step is inserted between the Provided Part and the root Manufacturing Assembly.

You can insert a Manufacturing Installation between an input and an output item.

Select a Manufacturing Installation and right-click on it.
Click Insert this Item between two Items in the context menu.
Select the two input and output tiles or tree nodes.

The Manufacturing Installation is inserted between the input and output items.

You can reroute the output of an item to another item.

Select the first Transform step tile in the graph.
Click Reroute Output in the context toolbar.
Select the second Transform step tile as an output item.

Note: The new output item must have the same parent as the original one. It also needs to allow several predecessors as inputs.

The first Transform step is inserted between the second Transform step and the second Manufacturing Assembly.

You can reroute an input of an item to another item.

Select the first Transform step tile in the graph.
Click Reroute Input in the context toolbar.
Select the second Transform step tile as input item.

Note: The new input item must be a sibling of the original one. It also needs to allow several successors as outputs.

The first Transform step is inserted between the second Transform step and the root Manufacturing Assembly.

You can reroute a Manufacturing Installation between two items.

Select the Manufacturing Installation tile.
Drag the Manufacturing Installation tile on the Data Requirement Link.
The dragged Manufacturing Installation is inserted between the Data Requirement Link's predecessor and successor items.