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LonMaker User’s Guide 107
Changing a Router Channel
You can change one or both of the channels assigned to a router shape. You can do this to assign a
router to a channel different from the one that was automatically selected by the LonMaker tool, or to
physically move a router to a different compatible channel. To move a router to a different channel,
you can either right-click the router and then click Move Device on the shortcut menu, or you can use
the Connector tool on the Visio Standard toolbar to graphically move the router.
To use the Move Device command, right-click the router shape and click Move Device on the shortcut
menu. See Moving LonMaker Shapes in this chapter for moving a device using the Move Device
command.
To use the Visio Connector tool to move the device, follow these steps:
1. Select the
Connector tool
on the Visio Standard toolbar.
2. Position the Connector tool over the “x” connection point of the router so that a red box appears
over the “x”.
3. Click and hold the mouse button.
4. Drag the Connector tool to the center of the shape of the desired channel so that a red box appears
around the channel shape.
5. Release the mouse button.
6. Select a different tool on the Visio Standard toolbar if you will not be making additional
connections or re-assignments (if you continue to use the Connector tool to add new devices,
routers, or functional blocks shapes to your drawing, Visio will attempt to connect the shapes,
which may not be the desired action or could be an action that generate errors).
Creating a Channel
A channel is the physical media upon which devices communicate between each other. When you
initially create a LonMaker drawing, it contains one channel named Channel 1 by default. You can
add additional channels to your LonMaker drawing. Doing so allows you to use different media within
the same network, isolate network traffic for performance, isolate devices for reliability, and increase
the number of devices beyond the limit of a specific transceiver.
To create a channel, follow these steps:
1. Drag the Channel shape from the LonMaker Basic Shapes stencil to your LonMaker
drawing. The Channel Definition dialog box appears.