Feature Request: Add Shapes Chevron Arrows

Hi David thank you for posting in the Lucid community! Our sincere apologies for the delayed response on this thread--I wanted to follow up in case this answer may still be useful to you and to provide a solution for other users who see this thread in the future. 

You can import a custom chevron shape for your use in Lucidchart by following the steps outlined in this help center article. We're also always looking for ways to improve Lucidchart and your feedback is the best way for us to keep developing a useful and effective product. I've submitted your idea to our product team on your behalf and it will be taken into consideration when prioritizing improvements. 

For anyone else with a similar request: please submit your feedback to the product feedback area of the community to provide additional context and support for this feature request. We would also love to hear additional detail about your use case see an example of what you're hoping to achieve or learn about a workaround you've discovered in the thread below. Thanks for your request!

Chevrons are important to describe the progression of a value chain. I agree that this shape should exist natively. 

I found that the right-arrow shape can be morphed and laid overlapping to replicate a chevron value chain. 

Hi Brian thanks for adding your feedback and sharing this workaround!

Similar request - I spent a lot of time going through the shapes library trying to find it since this is a 'default' shape I'm used to from PPT. 

The workaround I used was to first expand the chevron - trying to import the skinny chevrons from SVG libraries doesn't work because its a custom import in LucidChart. There's no way to 'expand' it. 

1 - I expanded the chevron in PPT (made it "fatter")

2 - Saved that larger chevron directly from PPT as an SVG

3 - Imported SVG into LucidChart

Now its easier to increase/decrease the size for adding text and linking them together.

Hi John 

Thank you for posting this workaround! We appreciate you sharing your ideas with the community and we value your feedback. If you or anyone else would like to add your thoughts to this thread, these ideas submitted are passed on to the product development team for their consideration.

Thank you for sharing your ideas and feedback!

You can do it using the Flex polygon. 

Hi Aswani thank you for sharing your idea! Anyone that has other suggestions or workarounds feel free to add them to this thread. 

Hello,

I wanted to just follow up on this and ask if there has been a new set of “chevron” shapes added to lucidchart?  (rather than users suggest workarounds).  Since its been over a year :)

I feel creating chevrons in PPT, reshaping and then copying into lucidchart to be a “hack”, so hoping there would be a standard shape to import, as it is a very basic shape that is utilised in a number of diagram types.  I’d rather create the diagrams in PPT than jump about hacking shapes..so hoping there is some time spent helping users fulling move over to lucidchart.

Thanks again for your help in advance.

Thanks,

Mark

Hi @MarkTerrington, 

Thank you for the reply! This idea has currently not be implemented into the product. Make sure to upvote this idea if you would like to see this in Lucidchart. 

We encourage anyone else who’s interested in this to upvote this post and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:

I beleive this platform is creating a blind spot for the Lucid Chart product team. I only came across it by chance when I was looking for my answer. The Chevrons are a popular figure/shape and this conversation was started two years ago with only three up votes. I wonder if the response would be different if you were to use other feedback mechanisms.