Moving to different levels

Designing systems of any complexity rely on a hierarchical block-based architecture. You create hierarchy by encapsulating blocks in a single block, called a compound block. In most cases, compound blocks are cyan to make them easy to see; however, you can also customize compound blocks with specific colors and images to suit your design requirements.

As you move through a compound block, your location within the diagram is displayed in the title bar. 

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Here, the diagram is named blinkF2807.vsm. The current location is two levels down in the compound block named RESET. A double colon separates the diagram name from the top-level compound block Counter. Subsequent compound blocks are separated by dots.

To navigate through compound blocks, use point-and-click navigation, tags, or the Blocks and Diagram Browser.