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How to disable assisted layout in Lucid

  • June 26, 2025
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Did you recently come back to Lucidchart and find an incredibly frustrating and poorly documented “auto-arrange” feature clogging up your workflow  by auto-snapping objects in certain containers? The setting your are probably looking for is to remove the assisted layout.

  1. Close all the pop-up windows the Lucidchart wants to show you, in my case this panel was completely obstructed by a helpful hint popup on top and a document setting popup on the bottom
  2. Double-click on your swimlane and a panel should open up on the right (and close any other new popups that may have popped up)
  3. Under assisted layout, click disable.

Best answer by jimmy

Greetings, Jackson!

 

I am a PM with the team that developed Assisted Layout.  We recently released a bunch of improvements to this feature as part of our ‘Lately @ Lucid’ launch. 

 

I’d love for your feedback on whether these additional features (and other tweaks) have made Assisted Layout work better for you.  If not, I’d love to know what else we can do to help improve your canvas experience!

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Leianne C
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  • Leianne C
  • Lucid support team
  • July 2, 2025

Hi ​@jacksontolb, thank you for posting in the community and sharing those steps!

For additional context - assisted layout is a new feature which helps optimize the appearance and organization of your Lucid document. When this feature is enabled, it organizes content into an adjustable grid pattern within Frames, Containers, and swim lanes, automatically adjusting space as needed when content is added or removed. You can find more information about this feature in this Help Center article.

I hope this helps. Feel free to let us know if you have any questions about this feature!

jimmy
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  • jimmy
  • Lucid product team
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  • October 6, 2025

Greetings, Jackson!

 

I am a PM with the team that developed Assisted Layout.  We recently released a bunch of improvements to this feature as part of our ‘Lately @ Lucid’ launch. 

 

I’d love for your feedback on whether these additional features (and other tweaks) have made Assisted Layout work better for you.  If not, I’d love to know what else we can do to help improve your canvas experience!

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Greetings, Jackson!

 

I am a PM with the team that developed Assisted Layout.  We recently released a bunch of improvements to this feature as part of our ‘Lately @ Lucid’ launch. 

 

I’d love for your feedback on whether these additional features (and other tweaks) have made Assisted Layout work better for you.  If not, I’d love to know what else we can do to help improve your canvas experience!

For me the problem i faced is.
I drew two lines from the same point of a process to indicate they are related.
Assisted Layout separates these lines causing complicated diagram.

Leianne C
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  • Leianne C
  • Lucid support team
  • November 17, 2025

Hi ​@Aditya Sai Ch, thank you for continuing this post. Would you mind sharing a screenshot demonstrating the issue?

This will help us take a closer look at the described behaviour. Feel free to let us know if you have any questions!

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