Aligning shapes

In UML visualization, you can align shapes in diagrams by their left, right, or center vertically or by their top, bottom, or middle horizontally.

Tip: Selected shapes align to the shape that you select last and that has filled sizing handles. Grouped shapes (that are selected by the Marquee selection tool) are aligned by the boundary of the group, not by the individual shapes in the group.

To align shapes:

1. In the diagram editor, select the shapes that you want to align.

2. Click Diagram > Align and click a type of alignment.

 

Parent topic

Repositioning shapes

 

Related concepts

UML shapes

 

Related tasks

Automatically arranging shapes and connectors
Arranging selected shapes and connectors
Resizing shapes