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Best Practices
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- Make use of the infinite canvas
- Align & Distribute Nodes (multiple selection > Properties > Arrange)
- When building, keep Grid & Guides on (Properties)
- Try to keep a Vertical or Horizontal hierarchy of your systems
- Use colour schemes to format your Nodes
- Use Colour Coded Resources to keep Resource flows separate
- Group subsystems (select multiple Nodes > Right Click > Group)
- Use Layers
- Do not clutter your diagrams with unnecessary elements and text
- Do not use Comic Sans. Because you can’t 🙂
1. Select a diagram Node, then DoubleClick / Alt+DoubleClick on a New Node in the Components sidebar to instantiate it on the diagram and automatically connect it via a Resource / State Connection.
2. Zoom in/out ALT+Scroll
3. Drop Nodes on loose Resource Connections to auto-link
4. Use the Waypoints Presets to organise your diagrams
5. Add systems to My Library and use them later by drag&dropping them into any other diagram
6. Use Groups to declutter your diagram
7. Export Multiple Run data sets
8. Use Layers (View>Layers / Ctrl[Cmd]+Shift+L) for selecting & locking content
9. Use Outline (Ctrl[Cmd]+Shift+O) like a mini-map to navigate through larger diagrams
10. Duplicate/Delete with Connections
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