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Eamonn John Casey

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Adding bends to existing connectors
« on: February 13, 2018, 11:27:48 pm »
I see that there is functionality to hold Down Shift while drawing a new connector. But is there a way to draw bends on existing connectors? I got loads of diagrams using the same connector and I only get to choose the defalut Routing types after the first diagram. Makes it very hard to make the diagram look pretty (and readable).

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Re: Adding bends to existing connectors
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2018, 01:46:45 am »
Ctrl-click to add a bend position.

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Re: Adding bends to existing connectors
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2018, 08:02:18 pm »
You could also try auto route option in the layout tools. Doesn't always produce good results but can save having to manually re-route all the lines one at a time.
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Re: Adding bends to existing connectors
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2018, 08:13:32 pm »
As qwerty mentioned you can use ctrl+click to make a connector line style as Custom Line.

And from EA13 there is an option Appliy Line Style on Diagram.
You can access it by right clicking a connector and it will update all the connectors in the diagram with the selected connector style.

or

You can write a script to change all existing connector to custom line using LineStyle property from DiagramLink Class
Please refer http://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/12.1/automation_and_scripting/diagramlinks.html for more details

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« Last Edit: February 14, 2018, 08:19:43 pm by Arshad »