On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Marshall Feldman <ma...@uri.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to Dia and have found it very useful. But I'm having one problem. I > want to draw an arc that starts and ends at the same node. I tried using the
You can do it if you connect it to something else. Example take a box and you can illustrate a loop connecting an arc for example from the right side of the rectangle to the top. > curved line connector and can almost make it into a circle, but when the end > of the line gets close to the original box, it seems to collapse on itself, > so instead of a circular flow it just looks garbled. > Weird. It works for me. Please specify your version and OS. Also specify if you are using the arc primitive or an arc provided by a symbol sheet. > In case you're wondering why I want this, think of a bank ledger for a > mortgage. Every month, the bank adds interest due to the balance of the > mortgage. If there's mortgage payment (a separate flow transaction), the > balance is reduced. But the original ledger entry starts and ends with the > bank. > I understand you want an arc to illustrate something looping into itself. is this a flowchart that you are trying to do, is it some specific notation? Can you provide an example on the Web on what you are trying to accomplish? -- Alejandro Imass > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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