Better rendering of crossing connectors

[mperry247]

I would like to see a better rendering of crossing connectors along the lines of Visio and line jumping.

I'm currently building business process models and presenting these to my client in paper form. They are constaintly asking the same question, "are the lines joining or just crossing."

[Geert Bellekens]

The pedantic answer would be: Don't make diagrams with crossing lines

On the serious side, If they would implement it then I personally would like an option to turn it off since I don't like the jumping Visio style crossings.

Geert

[Thelonius]

Don't use "right angle" lines. Use straight lines. If they cross over an element, I'm okay with that.

This doesn't completely solve the problem, but it reduces it significantly.

Don't use the automatic layout function.

This is only a problem for very large diagrams with many connectors.

I create only one "kitchen sink" diagram where this is a problem.

Alll my "real work" is done in smaller "domain" diagrams where I can manage this problem far more easily.

Hope this helps.

[son-of-sargasso]

Lines, aka edges never join. Joins can only occur at vertices aka elements.  While I agree that crossing lines are a visual problem I don't really think extra adornments will contribute to alleviating the situation.

As Thelonius says, if the diagram is problematic simplify it.

hth
bruce

[mperry247]

Its great to see feedback so quickly.

The underlying problem I have is not from the perspective of technical users, but from the perspective of the business user (aka the paying client). They don’t always have an understanding of the model representation supplied in a paper document that they may read independently.  The model/diagram needs to make this situation very clear.

As with any good feature within the tool, I would expect this to be configurable as part of say the connector style.

[mperry247]

P.S. I'd love to be able to make the model with no crossing lines. :-?