Diagram Appearance

There are plenty of options to customize the appearance of different portions of a diagram. These options let you create professional-looking diagrams that can reflect the style patterns commonly used in your business domain.

The appearance of a node can be customized with numerous Fill Style options like Gradient, Hatch and Texture.

The shadow styles of each diagram node and link can be defined in terms of color, shadow offset and transparency. Users can turn either enable or disable the shadow effect.

The Background Style options of a diagram such as color and brush type can be defined using the backgroundStyle Editor.

Advanced font color and styles can be applied on the node text.

Line Styles are available for node borders, links and the diagram model. These line styles include dashcap, endcap, dashstyle and line join.

A layer organizes graphical objects into groups that share a common set of default properties and more importantly the Z-order. You can add any number of layers to the model and also move objects between layers.

This is ideal for creating overlapping areas within a diagram.