Diagram faster with smart snapping

Smart snapping, alignment, and connectors.


Vexlio is purpose-built to make drawing your diagrams easier and faster, without having to spend energy worrying about small misalignments. Vexlio's smart snapping, intuitive alignment guides, and flexible connectors allow you to focus on your content rather than wrestling with placement and layout.

Smart Snapping and Alignment

Smart snapping helps you position elements in your diagram with reliable accuracy. As you create and move objects, you'll see automatic guides that align with nearby elements, snap to edges, centers, or grid lines, and ensure perfect spacing between objects. Multiple different snapping strategies are available.

Highlights

  • Dynamic snap guides. Visual cues appear as you move objects, helping you align elements based on edges, midpoints, and spacing.
  • Grid and freeform flexibility. Snap to grid for structured layouts or use freeform snapping for work-in-progress or more open designs.
  • Consistent spacing. Ensure evenly spaced elements in rows, columns, or other arrangements with smart feedback as you drag.
  • Stays out of your way. Each type of snapping can be enabled or disabled at any time.

Connectors That Stay Connected

Many technical diagrams describe things like data or process flow, hierarchy, or relationships. Frequently these concepts are most intuitively represented as connectors like arrows between different components. And crucially, these connectors almost always need to stay attached to the different components as you tweak and edit your diagram.

Vexlio comes pre-loaded with a number of types of connectors, all of which automatically stay attached to all points of contact. Here are some of the stand-out features of Vexlio's connectors:

  • Auto-updating paths. The geometry of all connectors is automatically adjusted to maintain clean, logical connections.
  • Customizable styles. Adjust line thickness, dash styling, color, and arrowheads to suit your diagram's needs.
  • Intuitive behavior. Snap connectors to specific points like centers or edges, for clear and professional results.

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