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  • July 10, 2020
  • 21 replies
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Keith T

I can barely see the direction of the workflows because the arrow heads are too small!!!!

How is not possible to change this yet?

I see multiple community posts asking for this spanning back YEARS!

May 14, 2024

Hello! I’m a UX designer here at Lucid, and I’m interested to hear what this group thinks about making line endings auto-resize based on line width (see prototype / GIF) below. As you change the width of the line, we could turn on auto-resizing by default so arrow heads scale with larger line widths.

  1. Would auto-resizing endpoints help solve issues with endpoints being too small or too large on your document? 
    • If yes, why?
    • If no, why? And, how many sizing options do you ideally expect having instead?
  2. What endpoints were you specifically working with when you said ‘I need this bigger’ or ‘I need this smaller’? Can you send a screenshot to this thread of the endpoint specifically you had problems with? That would be really helpful!

 

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Shanna H
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  • Lucid support team
  • July 10, 2020

Hi Keith

 Thanks for your post! Unfortunately, this isn’t currently supported in Lucid, but we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. If you’re willing to share, we’d love to hear more details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience within this thread. I’ve also converted this post to an idea so that it’s visible to others within the Product Feedback section of the community - from here, they can upvote it and add details of their own.

Finally, for more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

 

While there is not a way to change just the size of the arrowhead you can increase the line width which will make both the lines and boxes thicker and arrowhead larger. 

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Another option is to select one of the other endpoints from the drop down. Many of the additional options are larger than the standard arrowhead.

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Thanks for your request and I hope this helps!


Wagner M
  • September 2, 2022

Dear friends

Please I strongly suggest that in the new releases of Lucidchart the arrowheads can be increased in size. In some cases it is hard to identify the arrowhead at the end of the line. Even increasing the line width.

 

Thanks


Phillip W
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  • Lucid support team
  • September 2, 2022

Hey Wagner,

Thank you for posting in the Lucid Community - this is the best way to communicate with our devs about your suggestion. 

Thank you for your request--please let me know if you have any other questions! Cheers!


NICOLETTE R

I have similar feedback. My client is complaining about the legibility of the flows due to the size of the arrows. I find it incredibly disappointing and unbelievable that LucidChart does not offer the option to increase the arrow size either generally in the parameters/settings or on individual objects.

If your product is not acceptable to my client then the product cannot work for me on a long term basis.

 


Phillip W
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  • Lucid support team
  • September 15, 2022

Hey Nicolette

Thank you for posting in the Lucid Community and thank you for the constructive criticism! We’ve noted your request and I want to thank you for taking the time to let us know how this implementation would benefit you and your clients! 

Thank you for your request--please let me know if you have any other questions! Cheers!


Wynand J
  • January 30, 2023

Could we post the link to the request here so we can track updates?


Phillip W
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  • Lucid support team
  • January 30, 2023

Hey Wynand 

Thank you for keeping this thread going! I will continue to provide updates on this feature as those details are made available to me. What you can do to make sure you don't miss this update is click the "Follow" button on the top right of the original post. This will ensure that if there's a post most here you'll know about it 😎

Hope this helps--please let me know if you have any other questions! 


Nick D103
  • September 11, 2023

Seems like a obvious miss that there's no way to adjust this. If you scale up/zoom out your diagrams the arrows become unreadable.


Micah
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  • Lucid community team
  • February 26, 2024
The following idea has been merged into this idea:

All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

Micah
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  • Lucid community team
  • February 26, 2024
The following idea has been merged into this idea:

All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

Micah
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  • Lucid community team
  • February 26, 2024
The following idea has been merged into this idea:

All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

Micah
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  • Lucid community team
  • February 26, 2024
The following idea has been merged into this idea:

All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

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  • Lucid product team
  • April 17, 2024

Hi everyone! I’m a PM on Lucidchart and wanted to offer a huge thanks for your feedback here. We are seeing a good amount of interest here and will take this into consideration as we move forward.


Micah
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  • Lucid community team
  • April 17, 2024
IdeaFuture Consideration

Micah
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  • Lucid community team
  • April 22, 2024
The following idea has been merged into this idea:

All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

Leigh L
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  • Lucid product team
  • May 14, 2024

Hello! I’m a UX designer here at Lucid, and I’m interested to hear what this group thinks about making line endings auto-resize based on line width (see prototype / GIF) below. As you change the width of the line, we could turn on auto-resizing by default so arrow heads scale with larger line widths.

  1. Would auto-resizing endpoints help solve issues with endpoints being too small or too large on your document? 
    • If yes, why?
    • If no, why? And, how many sizing options do you ideally expect having instead?
  2. What endpoints were you specifically working with when you said ‘I need this bigger’ or ‘I need this smaller’? Can you send a screenshot to this thread of the endpoint specifically you had problems with? That would be really helpful!

 


Micah
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  • Lucid community team
  • May 17, 2024
Future ConsiderationSeeking Feedback

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  • September 26, 2024

It would really be ideal if the size of the arrowhead could be changed independently of the linewidth. If not possible, at least the standard selection of arrow heads should include differently shaped/sized variants. See. e.g. how PowerPoint has 9 different size/shape combinations (short/medium/long X narrow/medium/wide) that are used to transform the selected arrow head (and it then also scales it by the linewidth).


Micah
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  • Lucid community team
  • September 26, 2024

Excellent feedback, @Someuser, thank you so much for sharing what you’d expect to see in this experience! 


Micah
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  • Lucid community team
  • October 3, 2024
Seeking FeedbackDelivered

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  • Lucidite
  • October 3, 2024

 I’m excited to share that this is now available in both Lucidchart and Lucidspark. Learn more here: https://help.lucid.co/hc/en-us/articles/14560101705364-Add-and-style-lines-in-Lucidspark#line-format-options!

Lucidspark: 

 

 

Lucidchart: