On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Alejandro Imass <aim...@yabarana.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:05 AM, tamouse mailing lists > <tamouse.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am just beginning to learn Dia, with the interest of making some > > What version? What OS?
Ah, sorry -- * Dia: 0.97.1 * GNU/Linux: Ubuntu 11.04 >> SADT/IDEF-0 diagrams. I have loaded the shape sheet SADT, but I only >> see on kind of activity flow: Vertical-Horizontal-Vertical. How do I >> make the Horizontal-Vertical-Horizontal flow arrow that will be like >> the VHV arrow? I read about deleting/adding segments, but then I can't >> figure out how to make HVH shape work like the VHV shape (greying the >> shape and arrow head) nor can I make sense of trying to get that new >> HVH shape actually saved in the SADT sheet. >> > > 1) Take the flow arrow and connect it where you want it. For example > from activity box 1 lower right connection point to activity box 2 > upper left connection port. The arrow will be pointing downwards and > you will have one segment with a yellow square and the two end should > be connected by showing red squares. > > 2) Drag the current segment upwards by clicking on the yellow square > until it passes the top of activity box 2 (which in IDEF0 will usually > be bellow box 1). Now right click on the vertical part of the line > that is sticking out of box 2 and select add segment. A new yellow box > should appear on that vertical line, and the line should turn black > because it's now a horizontal flow. > > 3) Click on this new yellow box and drag it to the left. The new > segment will grow to the left and the arrow should now point correctly > to the right. To change the flow style double click on the line to > open it's properties. Don't know too much about IDEF but AFAIK > horizontal flows should always be black, and the only option (at least > in DIA's SADT/IDEF0) is to grey the vertical ones, but if you want you > can force grey the whole line by changing it's colour in the object's > properties. > > Best, > > -- > Alejandro Imass > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > dia-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > Ok, I can understand that -- The only thing is I think it's a bit of a pain to have to do that for every horizontal flow.... I'm also going to be interested in how I'm going to have to do recycle flows... _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
