The Hierarchical tab of the Layout property sheet lets you specify options for any diagram that uses the Hierarchical layout. The table below describes these options.
| Section | Options | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Orientation | Top to Bottom | The orientation of your diagram. Reorienting a diagram does not automatically change port specifications, connectors, element shapes, or constraints, which might rely on specific sides of elements. Think about the side effects before you reorient a complex diagram. |
| Left to Right | ||
| Bottom to Top | ||
| Right to Left | ||
| Level Alignment | Top | How subsite levels are aligned with regard to one another on each tree level. |
| Center | ||
| Bottom | ||
| Layout Quality | Draft | The speed of the algorithm used to produce the layout. Draft represents the lowest quality, but fastest level of layout. Proof represents the highest quality, slowest level. |
| Default | ||
| Proof | ||
| Horizontal Spacing | Spacing Between Nodes | The space between diagram elements. |
| Spacing Between Edges | The space between parallel links. | |
| Vertical Spacing | Spacing Between Nodes | The space between diagram elements. |
| Spacing Between Edges | The space between parallel links. | |
| Routing | The nature and look of the links in the target diagram. | |
| Orthogonal | Enables orthogonal routing, which routes edges horizontally and vertically. You can adjust the spacing between parallel edge segments in an orthogonally routed layout. | |
| Polyline | Enables polyline routing, which routes edges as one or more straight line segments with arbitrary angles. The algorithm keeps polyline-routed edges from overlapping nodes by adding path nodes as needed. | |
| Orthogonal Routing | Fix Node Sizes | With orthogonal routing, you can choose to have fixed node sizes. |
| Polyline Routing | Spacing Between Bends | With polyline routing, you can specify the distance between bends. |
| Variable Level Spacing | Whether or not to adjust the spacing between pairs or neighboring levels according to the density of links between the levels. | |
| Undirected Layout | Whether the layout is to be undirected, which means that the source and target elements of any link are treated the same. In a directed-layout diagram, the direction of the link is significant. Networks are often represented in undirected layouts, while processes are often represented in directed layouts. | |