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

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