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October 28, 2025
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Can I expand/collapse parts of my diagram?

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  • October 28, 2025
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During the Lately Lucid webinar on October 1st, 2025, Amy Simek and Bear Shelton demonstrated a new Lucid AI feature (See keynote at 20:40) where you could select a portion of a complex process diagram and click a little “collapse” button in the corner of the selection to turn that part of the process into an expandable/collapsible subprocess. This feature was also alluded to in the Looking Forward section of the Lucid Blogpost “Lately @ Lucid: Accelerating transformation through intelligence”:

Looking forward

Additional features coming to grid layout include the ability to:

  • Expand or collapse containers and portions of diagrams. (emphasis mine)

  • Auto-expand frames and nudge other frames over as content is added to a frame.

 

When will this new expand/collapse feature be released for users? Creating, synchronizing, and managing all of the layers in a complex diagram is very tedious. I have several diagrams that I would love to make more dynamic using the expand/collapse feature and I thought this feature would release shortly following the Lately Lucid webinar. 

Pinned Reply By jimmy

it’s out 

 

Comments

jimmy
Lucid product team
October 29, 2025

Thanks for the question, ​@mterry!  

I am the product manager over this feature and I’m glad to hear you’re excited about collapse/expand.  We are too!

I’m not able to give any concrete delivery dates at this time but I can say that we are in the early stages of building this out.  Rest assured that it is coming!

 

 

jimmy
Lucid product team
February 20, 2026


Me, again!  

 

Just following up to let you know that we've been hard at work these past 4ish months bringing this feature further along.  I hope you'll forgive me not being able to share any release dates but I will say this:  If you liked what you saw in October's Lately @ Lucid then you'll love where we're at today :)

Sit tight!

jimmy
jimmyPinned
Lucid product team
March 31, 2026

it’s out 

 

Micah
Lucid community team
April 6, 2026
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