Grog's right. Your board patch should not affect anything done by your architectural lighting system. In
Strand racks, they are two mutually exclusive ways of control. They don't talk to each other at all, really. Some of the Strand architectural systems can listen to the
DMX stream to snapshot looks that you have set by the console, but they will never talk back to the console.
Do you know what your
dimmer rack is? Can you describe your stations? That would go a ways toward determining what type of architectural system is.