[sclug] drawing network diagrams?

[ed]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:49:11 +0100
John Stumbles <john at stumbles.org.uk> wrote:

> Aha! sorry, I missed the reference to dia earlier, I thought we were 
> talking about xfig (well, I was anyway!). Your reference to red/yelow 
> outlines makes sense now!
> 
> Trouble with dia is if I group primitive objects together I need them
> to act as a basic object to which I can e.g. connect other objects,
> but I couldn't find a way to do that: once they're joined I get grey
> anchor points instead of bright green ones and I can't attach lines
> to the new grouped object. In visio and OOo draw you can create
> connection points on a group object and use them to connect lines to
> the group object. IIRC with Visio you can create your own library of
> special objects which I'd need to do since the selection in dia is so
> restricted (e.g. in electrical symbols there's not even a change-over
> switch).

Ah. Ok. n/p.

File->Export, then select Dia Shape File... Then use the file->sheets/
objects to add your new shape. The default anchor points are the
corners and middles.

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