Questions tagged [draw.io]
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How to reset the zoom to 100% via keyboard?
I have a fairly big draw.io diagram. I need to move and zoom around a lot. After navigating within the diagram, I would like to reset the zoom to 100%. However, I haven't found a way to do that ...
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How to never have object join a group when hovered and dropped over the latter in draw.io?
Is there an option to disable to auto-group-join feature? It seems completely undesirable in 99% of all my use-cases. There are always groups somewhere and joining causes all sorts of problems. ...
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How can I draw five circles around one circle using Draw.io?
I'm trying to create a diagram for my presentation.
However, I'm a bit stuck and not sure how to achieve this particular layout.
Could you kindly share your knowledge on how to draw like the image I'...
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Draw.io: how to change the pageBreakColor in "Extras -> Configuration" section?
Is there a way to set the pageBreakColor usgin the Configuration section? sometimes the actual color is not visible in small 13" screens or it looks like grid color.
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Draw.io: How to change the line height of text in multiple vertices at once?
In draw.io I have a large number of flowchart boxes containing text. Selecting multiple boxes let's you change the font size, spacing etc. of many at once, but it seems to change the "line height&...
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How do I prevent lines from overlapping in Draw.IO
I am making some drawing where I am making a diagram of how physical cables connect into electrical pannels. My issue is that the lines ends up overlapping. I know I can separate them "...
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Linking a diagram in a diagram
I'm working on a pretty big infrastructure diagram and in order not to make it too crowded I'm toggling sub diagrams on-click on the various components.
So I have the main diagram, create a smaller ...
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Remove images from draw.io/diagram.net org chart
diagram.net (formerly, draw.io) has a very convenient org chart template, but when I remove the images from each node (box/person), the text does not take up the space where the image was, and I can't ...
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How to change grid scale group in Diagrams.net from 4 to 5?
There is a grid settings in the Diagram properties in Drow.io/Diagramms.net. I can set the cell size and lines color.
However, when I scale out, the cells group in 4x4 groups, so the group cell is c*4 ...
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How to control padding inside text labels on connector lines?
In Draw.io, is there a way to control padding inside text labels on connector lines?
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Aligning arrow lines in draw.io
I have been working with draw.io (or diagrams.net) for a while now and one thing I can't seem to get right is line alignment. I am making a flow chart with block connected by arrows. The arrows snap ...
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How to clear draw.io sidebars and only access it via a floating menubar?
So I would like to be able remove the sidebar tools from draw.io and whenever I need them just somehow summon the Format toolbar that floats above the diagram, but can be hidden again. I have seen ...
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Can you "lock in" a font style in draw.io/diagrams.net?
In draw.io is it possible to lock in a default font size, for all new shapes?
What happens right now is if I set the font size of a shape to X, all new shapes will have font size X.
What I want to do ...
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How to not have object join a group when hovered and dropped over the latter in draw.io?
By default, when an object is dragged over a group in draw.io, the group is highlighted in purple, signifying that dropping the object will make it part of the group. How do I avoid this? Can I just ...
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How to increase padding in draw.io?
In draw.io, how do I increase the padding so that the content is farther from the sides of its container?
My situation: I've inserted a rectangle, double-clicked on it, and put in lots of text. I now ...
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Diagrams.net/Draw.io: Modifying the Mouse Over Hover Style for a Shape with Link?
A published diagrams.net drawing is shown below.
Which contains a shape with a link assigned, with mouse-over (mouse-hover).
Is it possible to change the mouse over outline styling, currently purple?
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Searching through the draw.io map in "Read-only" mode throws "Error" - "v is undefined"
I need to find an item "xyz" in a big technical map. At least the search done by the Ctrl+F "Find" box does not work:
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v is undefined
I am in the "Read-only" mode, ...
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Moving one element alters unrelated elements, how can I 'detach' them?
In draw.io diagrams that become moderately complicated, I often find that moving or resizing a line or box has unexpected side-effects... other elements are somehow 'glued' to it. So dragging a box ...
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How to align objects in Draw IO to a single object rather than an average
Draw IO's align and distribution tools work well except that ALL the objects move to a common location. I would like to be able to align other objects to match the horizontal/vertical location of one ...
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Reset draw.io image 'full size' setting
While inserting image into draw.io, I selected Remember this setting checkbox
Now how can I reset this setting (as it wouldn't prompt me again)?
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Why does every shape only have a single connector suddenly?
I've just started a new diagram in Draw.io and realised every shape only has a single, central connector point:
I was just working on another diagram and the same object types have connectors around ...
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Add margins/padding for auto-size?
I've noticed that when using autosize on items containing one other item, the container shrinks to exactly fit the child. To the extent the inner item overlaps the outer item's perimeter.
For instance ...
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How can I make the item header fit a multi-line text?
I want to use Draw.io for UML class diagrams but while autosize is generally useful, it doesn't work for item headers:
Trying to manually adjust the size of the header also appears somewhat ...
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draw.io pressing enter moves entire page
Pressing enter on draw.io (new line in text) moves the entire page instead of just expanding the text document.
Look at the difference between text and heading. Notice how text moves the entire page ...
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I can't unlock a swimlane in draw.io
I have an existing swim lane diagram with flows and connectors. I want to move the 3 rightmost lanes over to the right but the 4th rightmost lane keeps hiding behind the lanes I move. It seems locked -...
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I can't draw a horizontal line on grid in draw.io
How do I draw a horizontal line on a grid? See the picture
As you see, the black line is a bit higher than the grid line. When I move the black line a bit lower, it overshoots the grid.
All my ...
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Download draw.io diagram as file.drawio
I'm wondering if it's possible to download a draw.io diagram with the format file.drawio directly from the app.diagrams.net interface.
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How do I change the colors of most draw.io icons?
All I can find is documentation for changing "SVG" file colors on this page:
https://www.diagrams.net/doc/faq/svg-edit-colours
But most of the icons in the shapes library are not svg files, ...
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how to split a shaple(like ellipse) and color the parts in drawio?
In the below picture,i describe what want, since i do not know how to plot it at draw.io.
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How to use 'Set Style' in draw.io's online tools 'Create Custom Link' to change 'fillColor'?
I am using the online tool of Draw.io Create Custom Link to change a normal object such as a square's fillColor. Where
Action for Cell(s): Set Style; Key: fillcolor; Value: #ffe6cc
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push the ...
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Diagram.net: Decoded drawio file
I created an empty diagram with a simple rectangle in diagram.net and saved the result. When I'm looking at the saved xml file I get:
<mxfile host="Electron"
modified="2021-08-...
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draw.io: How to remove the tiny white space between two lines
If you were to align two straight lines, one on top of the other, such as this:
A tiny white space exists between them. Is there any good way to remove such an artifact? Obviously in this case above ...
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How do I put an arrow at an arbitrary point in the diagram in Drawio
I am drawing a diagram in Drawio but I cannot make the arrows behave well; they always snap to the background container or to one corner of the thing they connect to.
I need two arrows to arrive to ...
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System of equations in draw.io
I'm looking for a way to write a system of equations in draw.io. I know how to do it in latex, but it seems that the syntax is different in draw.io. Could you tell me how to do it please?
In latex I ...
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How to delete column from Entity rectangle in Draw.Io entity relationship diagram?
I drew an entity with several fields, then needed to delete some of them. Unfortunately, pressing Delete just cleaned field names, but not deleted their rectangles
How to delete these empty ...
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Drawio mirror diagram
Is it possible to mirror an existing diagram with connectors etc.?
By mirroring I mean to have a reversed copy of it (the nox that's in the left to go in the right and so on)
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How to change the number of cells within each main grid area in draw.io?
As seen in the following screenshot each main grid container in a draw.io diagram has x 4x4 matrix of cells.
I would like to change it to 5x5. How can that be achieved? I looked at the Diagram menu ...
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How can I link local files (Excel Sheets/Word Docs/Videos etc.) saved on my laptop to Diagrams.net/Draw.io
I would like to link some excel tables or even add them on Draw.io.
These files are saved on my laptop, but I don't know how to link them to the diagram. Any help would be appreciated.
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moving row within a table on draw.io
On draw.io, I am trying to move a row in a table, I grab the right hand equals sign on
the row to move, but when I move it to a new position the row snaps back
to its original position. I am using the ...
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Specifying the position of an element (e.g. line) in draw.io
I'm wondering if it's posssible to specify the exact position of a line in draw.io. It seems that the only way to do that is the reduce the size of the grid.
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How Do I Know Which Icon I Used In draw.io?
I used an Azure icon collection in draw.io/diagrams.net to make my diagram.
I loaded the icons following this post. You can open the design page with the icons loaded by following this link.
When I ...
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Collapsible containers overlap when expanding
So I have 2 collapsible containers. Is there a way to keep them from overlapping when expanded? As in "push" the other container to make room for the one being expanded.
Here are the 2 ...
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Canceling the w chacarter under a figure
I've the following figure:
and I'd like to cancel the 'w' character under it. How can I do it? It moves together with the image.
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draw.io downloads file on every save
While creating a diagram in draw.io, pressing ctrl+S keeps downloading the file multiple times, how to set it so that it saves the work but does not download the file on every save.
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Drawio - collapse nested container and other elements
I want to represent a nested element structure, that is collapsible.
I have achieved that, however I am struggling with adding additional element. New elements are not collapse anymore. I tried to ...
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Adding anchor points in draw.io
I love draw.io but I am annoyed by how hard it seems to be to create custom shapes or modify existing ones. This does not seem possible to do in a "WYSIWYG" manner with your mouse, but ...
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How to draw self-call in sequence diagram
The built-in self-call in the UML shapes library is misplaced.
Attached shows the desired one and the current one. Making the desired one I have to make several clicks, draw, tweaks on the line. Any ...
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How to fill complex shapes within its border?
I just made this shape by combining a rectangle and numerous arcs together. I finally grouped them to create this one complex shape. The only trouble I'm having is filling the object. Whenever I try ...
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"Image too big" in draw.io stored on Google Drive using the diagrams.net plugin
I activated in my Google Drive the plugin "diagrams.net" and now I'm trying to draw shapes on top of an existing floorplan which happens to be a 2400x1600 pixel large image. Because of my ...
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Is there any way to set the last used font as the default font in drawio?
One feature I am missing the most in drawio is using the last used font as default font. Now I have to change the font for every cell or object I created, defaulted to Helvetica which is so awful to ...
