Is there an easy way to lock lines to vertical or horizontal?

Aug 07, 2013

I'm producing lots of interactive flow charts in Storyline and getting frustrated at the lack of easy 'snapping' of lines to 90 degrees. I've been spoiled by Visio and its great features and I'm not expecting intelligent connections but is there a way to do this? Currently I'm aligning them with the guide and using size/position controls to tweak them until they're right.

6 Replies

Bruce Graham
Hero

over 10 years ago08/07/13 at 5:16 am (UTC)

Hi Tim,

None that I know of.

It would make a great feature request.

Bruce

Graham North

over 10 years ago08/07/13 at 6:05 am (UTC)

Hi Tim

Just like in PowerPoint you can hold down the Shift key whilst drawing objects to "snap" them. It's a while since I used Visio but I believe you can do the same there too.

Hope this helps

Tim Neill
Author

over 10 years ago08/07/13 at 6:38 am (UTC)

Thanks Graham. This works fine for the initial line placement but it's not easy to make lines orthogonal once they've been altered.

Graham North

over 10 years ago08/07/13 at 6:57 am (UTC)

Once the line is drawn incorrectly then you are correct this won't help. Using the endpoints to "square" it back up again can be tricky as sometimes the grid snap interferes giving a dithering affect. However you can use the Alt key at this point to temporarily disable the feature giving a smooth response and hopefully making easier to return the line to the correct alignment horizontal or vertical.

Other than that there's little else I can think of.