These lines are hard to work with. They do weird loops when you just want a STRAIGHT LINE. Please fix this. Thank you.
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How to get a straight line in Lucidchart
Best answer by Addie
Additionally, here’s a useful feature for getting lines to make the most efficient connections between shapes: smart lines!
Lines have anchor points where they attach to each shape. With smart lines, the anchor point will adjust as you move the shape.
To create a smart line, rather than dragging and dropping a line directly to the edge of the next shape, pull the line just past the edge until the shape gets the blue “halo” effect. Release your mouse, and you’ve got yourself a smart line that will make smart connections!
You can also adjust lines by modifying the line path by clicking on the line path and moving the line accordingly, your adjustments will be remembered.
You can always right click on any line and select “reset line” to clear up any past adjustments
For more information about smart lines, please review this help center article.
Try out smart lines to make it easier to manage your lines!
+23Hi Damian
Thanks for posting in the Lucid Community! You can change your line settings in both Lucidchart and Lucidspark to have your desired formatting.
Lucidchart:
Lucidspark:
For more information on the functionality of the lines feature please review this Help Center article for Lucidchart and this Help Center article for Lucidspark. Let us know if you have any additional questions!
+23Additionally, here’s a useful feature for getting lines to make the most efficient connections between shapes: smart lines!
Lines have anchor points where they attach to each shape. With smart lines, the anchor point will adjust as you move the shape.
To create a smart line, rather than dragging and dropping a line directly to the edge of the next shape, pull the line just past the edge until the shape gets the blue “halo” effect. Release your mouse, and you’ve got yourself a smart line that will make smart connections!
You can also adjust lines by modifying the line path by clicking on the line path and moving the line accordingly, your adjustments will be remembered.
You can always right click on any line and select “reset line” to clear up any past adjustments
For more information about smart lines, please review this help center article.
Try out smart lines to make it easier to manage your lines!
All of these answers are completely useless and ignore the original question. We want a plain straight line that is NOT a Smart Line, does NOT create weird right angles, and does NOT anchor to anything. Just a plain, straight, dumb, geometric line. Can anyone answer THAT question?
+16Hi
Thank you for the reply. All of our lines are smart lines to improve the diagraming experience. However if you’d like, there are arrow shapes in our shape library that are plain and straight. Hope this helps!
Then lets answer the question that way to begin with. While we’re at it, where do I go to add shapes, such as: circle, square, etc?
+16Hi
I’m so sorry your question wasn’t fully addressed in the initial conversation. Our support team always aims to provide thorough and helpful responses, and it looks like this was an unfortunate oversight. We appreciate your patience and are here to make it right.
To add shapes, like a circle or share, navigate to the panel on the right and go to shapes. If you scroll down a bit, there is a category with general shapes to use.
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