Layout Properties Sheet: Hierarchical Tab

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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.
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Layout Properties Sheet

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