This menu contains various actions to optimise the shape layout.

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Radial

The shapes are radially arranged on the drawing sheet.

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Flowchart/Tree

The shapes are arranged in a tree structure from top to bottom, beginning from the first shape.

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Circular

The shapes are placed around the first shape on the drawing sheet.

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Route orthogonal

The connectors always stand at a right angle to each other.

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Route middle centred

The connectors are always drawn from a page centre of a shape to the nearest page centre of the related shape.

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Route simple horiz./vert.

The connectors are always arranged horizontally and/or vertically.

 

 

The following drawing of a flow diagram/tree-configured network shows how the various connector alignments can change the shape of the diagram:


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Route orthogonal



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Route middle centred



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Route simple horiz./vert.