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How to Connect Objects in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM on Windows

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM provides a few options for drawing connections between objects: Direct Connectors, Smart, Arc, Bezier, Curve and Round Connectors. You can connect objects in your ConceptDraw diagram with proper connectors using the embedded automatic connection modes. This article describes how you can connect objects with connectors and how you can ascribe different types and behaviors.

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How to Set Line Jumps for Smart Connectors in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Connecting objects in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is an easy task. You can use Chain, or Tree connection mode for automatic connection of multiple objects. Besides the automatic connection modes, ConceptDraw DIAGRAM offers few options to connect objects manually: Direct, Arc, Bezier, Smart, Curve and Round Connectors. You can make them square, arched or angled and also set vertical or horizontal orientation Thus, you can control how the jumps and orientation occurs on smart connectors. When two smart connectors cross each other you can control how the two intersecting lines look.

One-line Diagrams

One-line Diagrams solution is a powerful electrical engineering tool to develop precise and detailed One-line Diagram, Single-line Diagram, Electrical diagram. This solution supplies the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM users with a wide set of vector libraries with special icons and electrical symbol elements for one-line drawing and electrical engineering diagram design including. It includes a large collection of samples of One-line Diagrams illustrating high-voltage and low-voltage systems, different electrical configurations and topologies, transmission systems, application of circuit breakers, protection electrical equipment, etc. It is perfect for all power-related workers, engineers, electricians, and other professionals working in power engineering and energy industries.

Business Diagrams

The Business Diagrams Solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM with an extensive collection of professionally designed illustrative samples and a wide variety of vector stencils libraries, which are the real help for all business-related people, business analysts, business managers, business advisers, marketing experts, PR managers, knowledge workers, scientists, and other stakeholders allowing them to design the bright, neat, expressive and attractive Bubble Diagrams, Circle-Spoke Diagrams, Circular Arrows Diagrams, and Venn Diagrams with different quantity of sets in just minutes; and then successfully use them in documents, reports, statistical summaries, and presentations of any style.

Process Flow Chart Symbol

Process Flow Charts are very popular and widely used in chemical and process engineering for representation a general flow of plant processes and equipment. If you need often draw them, the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with tools of Flowcharts Solution will be useful for you. The mostly used set of process flow chart symbols includes the following: Rectangle (box) process flow chart symbol, Rounded rectangle, Circle, Diamond.

HR Dashboard

The HR Dashboard solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM functionality with powerful drawing tools and great collection of comprehensive vector design elements, icons, pictograms and objects, navigation elements, live objects of HR charts, HR indicators, and thematic maps. The range of HR Dashboards applications is extensive, among them the human resource management, recruitment, hiring process, human resource development. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software is perfect for creation HR Dashboard with any goal you need. It gives you all opportunities for designing not only informative, but also professional looking and attractive HR Dashboards of any style and degree of detalization, that are perfect for using in presentations, reports and other thematic documents.

Circular Arrows Diagrams

Circular Arrows Diagrams solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM with extensive drawing tools, predesigned samples, Circular flow diagram template for quick start, and a library of ready circular arrow vector stencils for drawing Circular Arrow Diagrams, Segmented Cycle Diagrams, and Circular Flow Diagrams. The elements in this solution help managers, analysts, business advisers, marketing experts, scientists, lecturers, and other knowledge workers in their daily work.

Basketball Field in the Vector

The Basketball Field library from the Basketball solution provides a complete set of ready-to-use predesigned vector courts: horizontally and vertically located, whole and half of court, colored and not, courts with views from different sides. All courts objects are designed according to the real basketball courts dimensions. Simply drop the needed basketball field in the vector from the library to design your own basketball diagram.

Soccer (Football) Dimensions

The Soccer solution from the Sport area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is designed as a tool that helps produce soccer illustrations of any complexity in minutes. You can quick and easy design the professional looking plan of the soccer field with set up dimensions.

Sales arrows - Vector stencils library

The vector stencils library "Sales arrows" contains 57 arrow symbols.
Use these arrow icon set to draw your sales flowcharts, workflow diagrams and process charts with the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
The arrow pictograms library "Sales arrows" is included in the Sales Flowcharts solution from the Marketing area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Angle arrow

Arc arrow

Arki arrow

Arrow fork

Arrow loop

Bent arrow

Chevron arrow

Circular arrow

Circular motion arrows

Clockwise arrow

Corner arrow

Counterclockwise arrow

Crossed arrows

Curved left arrow

Curved right arrow

Curving directional arrow

Cycle arrow

Diagonal arrow

Double arc arrow

Double headed arrow

Double headed semicircle arrow

Down arrow

Dual short arc arrow

Elbow arrow

Fat arrow

Go back arrow

Interaction arrows

L-shaped arrow

Left arrow

Lightning arrow

Long arc arrow

Looping arrows

Merging arrows

Moving down arrow

Moving up arrow

Recycling arrows

Refresh arrows

Ribbon arrow

Right arrow

Rotating arrows

S-shaped arrow

Sector arrow

Semicircle arrow

Short arc arrow

Single headed arrow

Small arrow

Split arrow

Straight arrow

Triangle arrow

Turn left arrow

Turn right arrow

Turn round arrow

Turned arrow

Up arrow

U-shaped arrow

Vertical moving arrow

Wavy arrow

Used Solutions

Marketing >

Sales Flowcharts

Basketball Court Dimensions

The basketball is a team game with a ball on a specially organized court, which is constructed according to the setted rules and dimensions. The game's standards specify the existence of defined list of equipment on any basketball court, such as backboards, poles, baskets, basketballs, timer, scoreboard, horns, as well as some other additional technical devices. The basketball game's goal is to throw a ball into one of the baskets, that is mounted to a backboard at a certain height on the edges of the court. When planning the construction of basketball court you need primarily create the detailed plan with all dimensions. The Basketball solution from the Sport area of ConceptDraw Solution Park will help you to make it effectively and quickly. This solution was designed as a tool that assists in producing any basketball-related illustrations you need in a few minutes. Use it to illustrate the best and winning positions when training the basketball team, to make the posters when planning the sport competitions, basketball games, sport conferences, etc.

Design elements - Welding

The vector stencils library "Welding" contains 38 welding joint symbols to identify fillets, contours, resistance seams, grooves, surfacing, and backing.
Use it to indicate welding operations on working drawings.
"Welding is a fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence. This is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler material to form a pool of molten material (the weld pool) that cools to become a strong joint, with pressure sometimes used in conjunction with heat, or by itself, to produce the weld. This is in contrast with soldering and brazing, which involve melting a lower-melting-point material between the workpieces to form a bond between them, without melting the workpieces.
Many different energy sources can be used for welding, including a gas flame, an electric arc, a laser, an electron beam, friction, and ultrasound.
Welds can be geometrically prepared in many different ways. The five basic types of weld joints are the butt joint, lap joint, corner joint, edge joint, and T-joint (a variant of this last is the cruciform joint). Other variations exist as well - for example, double-V preparation joints are characterized by the two pieces of material each tapering to a single center point at one-half their height. Single-U and double-U preparation joints are also fairly common - instead of having straight edges like the single-V and double-V preparation joints, they are curved, forming the shape of a U. Lap joints are also commonly more than two pieces thick - depending on the process used and the thickness of the material, many pieces can be welded together in a lap joint geometry." [Welding. Wikipedia]
The shapes example "Design elements - Welding" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Mechanical Engineering solution from the Engineering area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Welding joint symbols

Used Solutions

Engineering >

Mechanical Engineering

Types of Flowcharts

A Flowchart is a graphical representation of process, algorithm, workflow or step-by-step solution of the problem. It shows the steps as boxes of various kinds and connects them by arrows in a defined order depicting a flow. There are twelve main Flowchart types: Basic Flowchart, Business Process Modeling Diagram (BPMN), Cross Functional Flowchart, Data Flow Diagram (DFD), IDEF (Integrated DEFinition) Flowchart, Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) Diagram, Influence Diagram (ID), Swimlane Flowchart, Process Flow Diagram (PFD), Specification and Description Language (SDL) Diagram, Value Stream Mapping, Workflow Diagram. Using the Flowcharts solution from the Diagrams area of ConceptDraw Solution Park you can easy and quickly design a Flowchart of any of these types. This solution offers a lot of special predesigned vector symbols for each of these widely used notations. They will make the drawing process of Flowcharts much easier than ever. Pay also attention for the included collection of ready Flowchart examples, samples and quick-start templates. This is business process improvement tools. If you are looking for MS Visio for your Mac, then you are out of luck, because it hasn't been released yet. However, you can use Visio alternatives that can successfully replace its functions. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is an alternative to MS Visio for Mac that provides powerful features and intuitive user interface for the same.

How to Simplify Flow Charting

Workflow Diagram

Workflow diagram is a perfect tool to represent visually a repeatable pattern of organizational activity that is powered by resources and to describe in details the transferring of data, documents or tasks during a work process. It effectively explains and documents the process flow that exists and that requires the studying, analyzing and execution. Workflow diagrams help to represent the working processes in a simple visual manner, to follow easy the path of a task in a workflow, to identify the persons responsible for the execution of each stage, to show the accompanied documents and needed resources. All this helps to optimize the workflow and to discover its weak points. Workflow diagrams are mainly designed and used as a part of project documentation, certification process and company policies to comply the standards. To design professionally the Workflow diagrams, use the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software. Enhanced with Workflow Diagrams solution from the Business Processes area, the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM it is a powerful workflow diagram maker.

Computer Network Diagrams

Computer Network Diagrams solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software with samples, templates and libraries of vector icons and objects of computer network devices and network components to help you create professional-looking Computer Network Diagrams, to plan simple home networks and complex computer network configurations for large buildings, to represent their schemes in a comprehensible graphical view, to document computer networks configurations, to depict the interactions between network's components, the used protocols and topologies, to represent physical and logical network structures, to compare visually different topologies and to depict their combinations, to represent in details the network structure with help of schemes, to study and analyze the network configurations, to communicate effectively to engineers, stakeholders and end-users, to track network working and troubleshoot, if necessary.

HR arrows - Vector stencils library

The vector stencils library "HR arrows" contains 57 arrow pictograms.
Use this arrow icon set to draw your HR flowcharts, workflow diagrams and process charts with the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
The arrow icons library "HR arrows" is included in the HR Flowcharts solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Arki arrow

Chevron arrow

Triangle arrow

Small arrow

Up arrow

Down arrow

Right arrow

Left arrow

Vertical moving arrow

Wavy arrow

Fat arrow

Straight arrow

Angle arrow

Double headed arrow

Single headed arrow

Elbow arrow

Crossed arrows

Turn left arrow

Turn right arrow

L-shaped arrow

Corner arrow

Diagonal arrow

Split arrow

Arc arrow

Bent arrow

Go back arrow

Double headed semicircle arrow

Counterclockwise arrow

Sector arrow

Clockwise arrow

Arrow fork

Merging arrows

U-shaped arrow

Semicircle arrow

Circular arrow

Looping arrows

Refresh arrows

Double arc arrow

Curving directional arrow

S-shaped arrow

Short arc arrow

Long arc arrow

Turn round arrow

Rotating arrows

Turned arrow

Curved left arrow

Curved right arrow

Cycle arrow

Arrow loop

Moving down arrow

Moving up arrow

Dual short arc arrow

Recycling arrows

Interaction arrows

Lightning arrow

Ribbon arrow

Circular motion arrows

Used Solutions

Management >

HR Flowcharts

Basic of Flowchart: Meaning and Symbols

Flowcharts are the best for visually representation the business processes and the flow of a custom-order process through various departments within an organization. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts solution offers the full set of predesigned basic flowchart symbols which are gathered at two libraries: Flowchart and Flowcharts Rapid Draw. Among them are: process, terminator, decision, data, document, display, manual loop, and many other specific symbols. The meaning for each symbol offered by ConceptDraw gives the presentation about their proposed use in professional Flowcharts for business and technical processes, software algorithms, well-developed structures of web sites, Workflow diagrams, Process flow diagram and correlation in developing on-line instructional projects or business process system. Use of ready flow chart symbols in diagrams is incredibly useful — you need simply drag desired from the libraries to your document and arrange them in required order. There are a few serious alternatives to Visio for Mac, one of them is ConceptDraw DIAGRAM. It is one of the main contender with the most similar features and capabilities.

How to Build a Flowchart

Sentence Diagrammer

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is a powerful diagramming and vector drawing software. Extended with Language Learning solution from the Science and Education area of ConceptDraw Solution Park it become also effective sentence diagrammer software.

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