Re: SADT H-V-H Activity flow

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On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Alejandro Imass <aimass yabarana com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:05 AM, tamouse mailing lists
> <tamouse lists gmail com> wrote:
> > I am just beginning to learn Dia, with the interest of making some
>
> What version? What OS?

Ah, sorry --
* Dia: 0.97.1
* GNU/Linux: Ubuntu 11.04

> > SADT/IDEF-0 diagrams. I have loaded the shape sheet SADT, but I only
> > see on kind of activity flow: Vertical-Horizontal-Vertical. How do I
> > make the Horizontal-Vertical-Horizontal flow arrow that will be like
> > the VHV arrow? I read about deleting/adding segments, but then I can't
> > figure out how to make HVH shape work like the VHV shape (greying the
> > shape and arrow head) nor can I make sense of trying to get that new
> > HVH shape actually saved in the SADT sheet.
>
> 1) Take the flow arrow and connect it where you want it. For example
> from activity box 1 lower right connection point to activity box 2
> upper left connection port. The arrow will be pointing downwards and
> you will have one segment with a yellow square and the two end should
> be connected by showing red squares.
>
> 2) Drag the current segment upwards by clicking on the yellow square
> until it passes the top of activity box 2 (which in IDEF0 will usually
> be bellow box 1). Now right click on the vertical part of the line
> that is sticking out of box 2 and select add segment. A new yellow box
> should appear on that vertical line, and the line should turn black
> because it's now a horizontal flow.
>
> 3) Click on this new yellow box and drag it to the left. The new
> segment will grow to the left and the arrow should now point correctly
> to the right. To change the flow style double click on the line to
> open it's properties. Don't know too much about IDEF but AFAIK
> horizontal flows should always be black, and the only option (at least
> in DIA's SADT/IDEF0) is to grey the vertical ones, but if you want you
> can force grey the whole line by changing it's colour in the object's
> properties.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Alejandro Imass
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Ok, I can understand that -- The only thing is I think it's a bit of a
pain to have to do that for every horizontal flow....

I'm also going to be interested in how I'm going to have to do recycle flows...