Create custom connection points

HI @romubdlp, it’s not currently possible to create default connection points on shapes - we’d love to hear more about how this specific feature would be useful to your work if you’re willing to share more via this thread. However, it is possible to position your line connection point anywhere on your shape simply by clicking and dragging the line endpoint along the shape border wherever you’d like it!

Not a regular way but you can put another shape like a block with the corners placed where you want the line to connect over your image, connect a line to the block corner and send the shape to the back and group the shape with your image.

@mwetz78 Thanks for sharing this great workaround!

Feature is a necessity for creating accurate network diagrams. I speak for many people when i say we would love to see this feature in Lucid!

@Goran.Ljubicic Thank you for adding your voice to this request, much appreciated!

This is the missing feature that keeps sending me back to Visio.   I really dont want to use Visio anymore.   Please promote this feature request!

@btravan Thanks for your feedback! Please make sure to upvote this request if you would like to see it in the product!

Seems that grouped objects (two existing shapes grouped) do not have line connections.

I have wanted this for YEARS as a customer of lucid chart.  I do video production and need to make signal path diagrams for all kinds of AV equipment and I have wanted to make equipment templates that have inputs and outputs exact to the equipment hardware.  I can’t believe Lucid is even ASKING why this is needed.  I’ve seen hundreds of posts asking for it.  Honestly this single feature would make lucid on par with far more venerable diagramming apps.

Interestingly I’ve found that if I import a Visio diagram with objects that contain extra connection points that I have added, those connection points are retained and I can glue a line to them

Does this mean that Visio can effectively create custom shapes for LC or am I mising some way of adding connection points to LC chapes?

Hi @Colin Foster, thanks for this comment! This is a very interesting workaround. Creating custom connection points is still not formally supported in Lucidchart, but we have invested extensively in our integration with Visio so that imported objects remain as functional and high fidelity as possible. We’re interested in hearing if you have continued success with this!  

Crazy this isn’t a thing. Right-click → add connection point. Doesn’t seem all that difficult.

Moving a fully populated 48 port switch in a network diagram is painful.

Hi ​@ITGuy, thank you for adding to this thread. I can certainly understand how this would impact your workflow and I apologize for the inconvenience. Your comment here and upvote are both great methods of showing your desire for this feature to be implemented. This is helpful for our teams as they consider improvements and further developments to our products.

I frequently use Lucid for block diagrams of large electrical circuits. Doing a diagram of all interfaces from a CPLD get very messy without having unique anchor points. The only meaningful work around I have found is to add a text box and anchor my lines to the text box anchor instead of to the object itself. This makes for very busy blocks when there are a lot of attachments. It is much more elegant to just be able to label the lines rather than having to label every connection. 

This is probably my biggest gripe about Lucid compared to Visio.

Thank you for your feedback here ​@Wyatt Erickson! Your comment and upvote to this post are the perfect ways to indicate your support for this idea to be implemented.  

I notice ​@Colin Foster example. So if in Visio, we can create our connexion point.. and when import in LucidChart, they are there..

I can assume it’s “supported” to have connexion point in LucidChart, but it’s not yet possible to add them from the interface.

So for now, we need to purchase a licence of Visio.. to create our form correctly.. or that feature will be in LucidChart, as like it make sense to have it in Visio.. i suspect is make the same sense and logic to have it in LucidChart as well… unless i’m missing something here ?

Having custom connection points is essential for creating detailed network diagrams.  I would argue it’s a near essential feature of any mature diagram solution.

I love the fact that it is possible and this works - I will try this.  But hopeful will become native in the future.  Does LucidChart have a roadmap that we can see what features are being added?