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Title: Connectors lay out and route around my own build shapes
Post by: Andreas011077 on October 14, 2015, 08:40:23 AM

Connectors should allways lay out and route around my own build shapes.

This is what i have done until now.

Select the shape, ribbon Developer -> Behavior

select the Placement tab on the dialog and choose

"Lay out and route around".

But it doesn´t work.

What kind of characteristics/properties must have the shape? With office owns shapes it works allways.

Why with them but not with my own shape?

How must I build my shapes? Mybe there is the problem?

Can anyone explain me how to solve my problem?

When you give me your mail adress i will sent to you my *.vss file for testing.

Here is a snip. The signed connectors are wrong, they should go around the shape. Allways automatically.

http://answers.microsoft.com/de-de/office/forum/office_2010-visio/visio2010-verbinder-und-eigene-shapes/5db62811-338f-4780-80ee-5d624a0e2064?tm=1444117679435&auth=1 (http://answers.microsoft.com/de-de/office/forum/office_2010-visio/visio2010-verbinder-und-eigene-shapes/5db62811-338f-4780-80ee-5d624a0e2064?tm=1444117679435&auth=1)

Regards
Andy

E-Mail : Andreas.Ratter@hrz.tu-darmstadt.de

Title: Re: Connectors lay out and route around my own build shapes
Post by: Paul Herber on October 14, 2015, 09:47:42 AM

and:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/c9f2d831-e56c-4787-84df-5f9b26d18361/visio2010-connectors-and-own-build-shapes?forum=visiogeneral (https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/c9f2d831-e56c-4787-84df-5f9b26d18361/visio2010-connectors-and-own-build-shapes?forum=visiogeneral)

Title: Re: Connectors lay out and route around my own build shapes
Post by: Yacine on October 14, 2015, 11:49:23 AM

Hallo Andreas,
the trick is to set the connection points on the group shape, instead of the sub-shapes.
I enclose a file showing the difference.
Note I did not manage to avoid the connectors overlapping.
Maybe one of the other members knows how to solve this issue.

Title: Re: Connectors lay out and route around my own build shapes
Post by: Andreas011077 on October 15, 2015, 10:46:39 AM

Hello Yacine,
This works! Thanx.
Next step is to manage that connectors don´t overlapping.
Can someone solve this issue.

regards
Andreas

Title: Re: Connectors lay out and route around my own build shapes
Post by: wapperdude on October 15, 2015, 04:54:43 PM

My experience with non-overlapping has never been very satisfying, but, in limited testing, the following seems to work:

File>Page Setup>Layout and Routing --
1. Set Separate to all lines
2. Set Overlap to no lines.

In the shapesheet for the page, you can confirm in the Page Layout section:
1. LineAdjustFrom =1
2. LineAdjustTo = 2

See attached, based upon Yacine's file.

Hopefully, my test results were not a "fluke"!

Wapperdude

Title: Re: Connectors lay out and route around my own build shapes
Post by: Yacine on October 15, 2015, 07:03:45 PM

Worked well.
Thank you.
Need to mark this topic as useful.

Title: Re: Connectors lay out and route around my own build shapes
Post by: Andreas011077 on October 16, 2015, 07:37:26 AM

Yes it works.
Thanx to all for helping.
Good job!

regards

Andy

Visio Guy

Visio Discussions => Shapes & Templates => Topic started by: Andreas011077 on October 14, 2015, 08:40:23 AM