Resize a Lucidchart shape without shifting existing lines

Hi Jay

Thanks for posting on the community! It is intended functionality for the lines to adjust when shapes are resized. Unfortunately that means that there is not a way to widen your rectangle without affecting the existing lines. However after you have adjusted the shape as desired you can click on each line and move them to the location of your choice. If static lines are a feature you would be interested in seeing, we’d love to hear more details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience posted in the Product Feedback section of the community - from here, other users can upvote it and add details of their own.

For more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post.

If anyone else is looking for information on creating and formatting lines please check out our Work with Lines article! 

Thank you for the info.

This one is extreme productivity killer. I'm doing sequence diagrams and I have to adjust every single line manually every time one of the bars have to be resized.
Basically if you misjudge how tall the bar has to be in the beginning you will have to readjust all lines several times.

@jay a101 @piotr k I wanted to update this post with Lucidchart's current functionality - this is possible! Simply disable line connections (View > Enable Line Connections) as shown in this GIF. 

I hope this helps!

Unfortunately, it doesn’t help if the lines were already drawn with “Line Connections” enabled.

Hi @kenk, thanks for continuing this thread. You’re correct - unfortunately, disabling line connections only affects new lines which are created after that setting has been disabled. In that case, the most efficient way forward will likely be to either re-create those specific components of your diagram after disabling line connections so that they behave how you’d like, or to continue manually adjusting the lines after resizing your shapes. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this causes! Please let me know if you have any additional questions.  

OMG, I can’t believe this isn’t possible

Indeed, the suggestion above doesn’t work, b/c all of the existing lines were drawn with line connections enabled

So basically since I failed to anticipate in advance precisely how long my sequence diagram would be, I now need to manually redo every single arrow. And if I don’t get it right now (which is likely, since it’s a work in progress, and it’s difficult to know in advance the precise length), I’ll have to do it again.

I think next time I’ll seek out a simpler tool, that isn’t trying to be so smart.

**UPDATE:** For me, it was far faster to just delete the shapes and redraw them (which really meant redrawing just one rectangle then copy/paste) rather than having to adjust every single line.

Hi ​@rich.fromm, 

Thanks for your post and for including your workaround!

We’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. If you would like to share this idea with our developers, you can submit an idea! Please first search the Product Feedback section of this community (with the filter Topic Type = Idea) to see if it’s already been submitted. If so, please add any additional details you’d like and upvote the request - this consolidation helps to refine feedback and properly capture the popularity of the request.

If no one has submitted this idea yet, please create one of your own and be sure to include details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. This will also allow other users with similar requests to discover and upvote it, then add details of their own.

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

https://community.lucid.co/welcome-to-the-lucid-community-15/feedback-and-feature-requests-5439

This seems like an obvious feature for sequence diagrams; surely one of the most common types of technical diagrams. The default behavior in this case is bad; there should be a hot key or setting to allow the connection points to remain absolute.

Hi ​@altempus, 

Thanks for providing that suggestion!

We’re interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. If you would like to share this idea with our developers, you can submit an idea! Please search the Product Feedback section of this community (with the filter Topic Type = Idea) to see if it’s already been submitted by Rich. If so, please add any additional details you’d like and upvote the request - this consolidation helps to refine feedback and properly capture the popularity of the request.

If no one has submitted this idea yet, please create one of your own and be sure to include details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. This will also allow other users with similar requests to discover and upvote it, then add details of their own.

I really wish this was a feature. The Line Connections workaround is not desirable. 
My team and I spend so much time resizing shapes and readjusting connections. Very frustrating and lost time resulting in abandoned detail thus reduced chart accuracy. 

Still love this product. Thanks!!

Hi ​@ECC - my sincere apologies for the frustration this has caused. I certainly understand how this would be an improvement to your workflow, especially when it’s difficult to anticipate the final state or size of a diagram. Thank you for submitting such a well-articulated feature request!