Hi all, writing to provide clarity on the status of this post with an update from our product development team!

“Change shape” is available for the following shape libraries:

• Shapes 
• Flowchart Shapes
• Geometric Shapes (partial)
• Mind Mapping
• Kubernetes
• AWS Arch
• Circuit Diagrams
• Enterprise Architecture 
• Entity Relationship
• Site Maps

“Change shape” is not supported for the following shape libraries, and addition of this ability isn’t currently prioritized, but we’re still very interested in your feedback.

• BPMN 2.0

• Data Flow
• Dynamic Shapes
• Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise Integration
• Geometric Shapes
• Process Engineering
• Sales Account Map
• Salesforce Architecture
• Server Rack Diagrams
• Standard
• UML
• Value Stream

What about Change Shape for “My Libraries”?

could we include it on the list please?

@miguel.pinto Thanks for continuing this thread! To confirm, are you referring to the ability to change shapes within/to/from shapes in your own custom libraries?

Lets say I add a shape from the Flowchart library. If I select the swap shape option, I can swap it with ANY shaper from the flowchart library correct?

In a similar way, if I create my own library with my own shapes, I should be able to swap those shapes with ANY other shape from the same library.

Ultimatelly, any shape from any library should be swappable by ANY shape from any other library. But if there is some kind of technical constrain for that, at leat it should be possible to at least replace it to a shape from the library it belonged to.

Now, theres the funny case were I use a shake from a given library, modify it and add it to a custom library I created… Today, it will still only allow swap with a shape from the original library it was in, and not any other shape from my library where I added it.

Makes sense ?

@miguel.pinto Thanks for this detailed explanation! I understand what you’re describing - we appreciate you taking the time to explain what you’d expect to see with this feature. 

A strong upvote for adding mutability to UML shapes. Specifically, there are three separate Class shapes with one, two, and three sections. When modeling structure diagrams I will often start with a bare class and then add attributes and/or operations. Since these are separate shapes (vs display options on a single shape), there’s no way to do this in place.

@phalverson Thank you so much for this excellent detail! I understand how this would be a significant improvement for your workflow with UML. Noted!