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I keep coming back to it too. I would love for some more control on layout but it works for simpler diagrams

• TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Layouting in plantuml is tricky, but I learned some tricks the hard way, which make larger diagrams more tenable. One core trick is: upper/left arrow lower/right So e.g. you write: upperBlock <-- lowerBlock instead of: lowerBlock --> upperBlock This alone drasticly cuts on the amount of hidden arrows with forced directions you need to use in larger diagrams. That said, plantuml could use a more explicit way of providing layout hints. E.g. an extra declaration that some objects form a grid. Something like: grid Comp1 Comp2 Comp3 Comp4 Comp5 Comp6 endgrid