Network Diagrams: Drawing Freehand Curves (and Then Fixing Them)

Draw a line free­hand.… yeah its gonna look bad

Select the Freeform tool from menu bar:

Make your best attempt at draw­ing a nice curve while using a mouse. Yeah, right, draw­ing with a mouse is spe­cial­ist skill .…

Now try to get it as close as pos­sible to the con­nec­tion point on the object on the right.

So now you have a line that looks some­thing like this:

Deleting Freeform points

The line has a num­ber of green dots with crosses. Lets delete the points on the line that are caus­ing it to devi­ate. Position your cursor over the a point and click to select (the cursor will change to crosshairs when you are above the point):

And now press the delete key to remove the point. Visio will recal­cu­late the Bezier curve and straighten it up.

Lets move some points around

So our line isn’t quite in the shape that we want. We can select and move the points around until the line is in the shape that we want:

Wrap Up

And now you have a proper look­ing line. The free­hand tool has a couple of other pos­sib­il­it­ies that can make it even more use­ful and I think I will save them for another blog post.

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