Crossing Connectors (NURBS?)

[John]

I've got a drawing that's been driving me crazy. It's effectively a left to
right hierachical tree with many shapes grouped together as a "Parent" on
the left of the page and multiple children connected with dynamic connectors
(curved) on the right.

The problem is the connector behaviour - When the parent is a reasonable
distance from the children, there is no crossover of the connectors (which
is what I want), but when the parent is moved closer to the children, the
damn things start crossing over each other. I'm assuming it's the formula
for the Geometry line which is defined using a nurbs line, however my
knowledge of nurbs is virtually nill so I'm a bit stuck.

I can send a file that demonstrates the problem if that helps.

Thanks in advance

Best regards

John

(I've checked every possible combination in layout and routing, but no joy).

 

[Chris Roth [ Visio MVP ]]

Go to File > Page Setup and look for the Layout tab. You'll find lots of
options governing spacing and line jumps and separation of lines.

What is probably happening is that your shapes start to get closer then the
"shape-shape" spacing or "connector spacing" for the page. Then the
connectors think that they need to back away from shapes and go around them.
If you back away from a shape on the right, and move forward from a shape on
the left, then you'll end up crossing over each other.

Educated guess at best, but I'd say screw around with the layout spacing
settings.

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

 

[John]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for this. I see what you mean, but I've tried all sorts of
combinations and still no effect. Could I send you a file as an example?

Thanks

John

 

[Chris Roth [ Visio MVP ]]

Yeah, go ahead and mail. Copy the problem statement in the mail so I don't
have to go digging.

You should be able to figure out what my real email is from this:
(e-mail address removed)

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

 

[John Smith]

You think you have problems!

In Enterprise Architect, it can take hours to get the relationship arrows to
point to the right columns, and if you don't protect the end points, the
relationships are very fragile.

Someone at Microsoft should really fix this querky behavior in the
relationship arrows.

When would anyone want to reroute arrows automatically and break
relationship links simultaneously anyway?

Robert