11 Results for: Tag: connectors

Signifying associative entities in draw.io

Connections hold together what belongs together. Connections show sequences, or draw your attention to essential steps in a given process. But even more importantly, they can also save you time. For example: "You meet the person of your dreams. You gather all your courage and want to talk to them. At the last moment, [...]

By |2023-09-28T10:19:50+02:00September 28th, 2023|customization, draw.io, feature, learning|

draw.io Training – Exercise 5: Create a tree diagram

Reading Time: 10 min Now that you've learnt how to insert and modify shapes, add text and use connectors, it's time to put it all together. In this exercise you'll learn some more advanced formatting options by using the format panel on the right hand side.

By |2022-11-23T15:29:08+01:00May 11th, 2021|learning|

draw.io Training – Exercise 4: Work with text and connectors

Reading Time: 12 min Now that you are comfortable modifying an existing diagram by editing shapes, it's time to build one from scratch. You'll need to add shapes from the symbol library, draw connections between the shapes, and add text to both the shapes and the connectors.

By |2022-11-22T13:42:37+01:00May 11th, 2021|learning|

Waypoints in draw.io: Building a path for your connectors

Getting from A to B: Waypoints in draw.io Connectors play a pivotal role in creating the relationships between your shapes.  Without them, they're just random shapes on your canvas.  But it's not enough just to have connectors.  Especially in more complex diagrams, which may contain many intersecting connectors, you have to have a way [...]

By |2020-08-05T23:27:13+02:00August 5th, 2020|draw.io, learning|

Customise default colours, fonts, styles and the draw.io UI in Confluence Cloud

Reading Time: 7 min

As an administrator, you can customise draw.io in Confluence Cloud to make it easier and faster for your users to create diagrams following your company’s particular style by setting default colours, style palettes, and fonts. You can even make the [...]

By |2020-10-27T23:17:56+01:00January 20th, 2020|customization|

Curved connectors in draw.io diagrams

Reading Time: 4 min Are you frustrated with boring straight connectors? Use curved connectors in draw.io to make your diagrams more fun for your readers.

By |2020-04-09T08:44:28+02:00September 11th, 2019|feature, learning|

Connector styles and animations in draw.io

Reading Time: 6 min Lines, connectors, arrows, transitions - these are the glue that hold diagrams together. Styling your connectors will help make your diagrams more readable, and that's easy to do in draw.io!

By |2023-05-30T14:00:23+02:00October 8th, 2018|feature, learning|

Floating and Fixed Connections in draw.io

Reading Time: 4 min Sometimes you don't want to connect to any particular connection point, but to the edge of a shape. And perhaps you want one end of a connector to move and the other to stay in one position. There are two types of connections, indicated with blue and green frames in draw.io.

By |2020-04-17T09:32:48+02:00May 24th, 2017|feature, learning|

4 Ways to Connect Shapes

Reading Time: 3 min If you draw additional lines between shapes in a diagram, they won't move with your shapes when you move them around the drawing area. By using actual connectors (not lines), your diagram becomes much more flexible and easy to work with. There are four different ways you can create connectors between shapes and quickly extend your diagrams in draw.io.

By |2020-04-03T11:50:28+02:00February 27th, 2017|feature, learning|
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