During the Lately Lucid webinar on October 1st, 2025, Amy Simek and Bear Shelton demonstrated a new Lucid AI feature (See keynote at 20:40) where you could select a portion of a complex process diagram and click a little “collapse” button in the corner of the selection to turn that part of the process into an expandable/collapsible subprocess. This feature was also alluded to in the Looking Forward section of the Lucid Blogpost “Lately @ Lucid: Accelerating transformation through intelligence”:
Looking forward
Additional features coming to assisted layout include the ability to:
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Expand or collapse containers and portions of diagrams. (emphasis mine)
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Auto-expand frames and nudge other frames over as content is added to a frame.
When will this new expand/collapse feature be released for users? Creating, synchronizing, and managing all of the layers in a complex diagram is very tedious. I have several diagrams that I would love to make more dynamic using the expand/collapse feature and I thought this feature would release shortly following the Lately Lucid webinar.
