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How to use secondary link styles

A link style can be assigned a secondary link style so that a link is drawn first with the primary link style and again with a secondary style. For example, suppose we have two link styles defined like these:

LS1 LS2

By setting "LS1" to have a secondary link style "LS2", LS1 now combines both link styles:

Secondary Link Styles FLS

 

In this is example the bus links are drawn using the same technique:

Block Diagram


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Network Notepad Clipping v2.1
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