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Right Angle Connectors are now going Diagonal?
I found the solution.
It doesn't have anything to do with the ShapeSheet.
What happened, was I changed the page settings:
Design > Page Setup
I removed "Auto Size"
But since this involves changing settings for the Page, Visio creates gremlins for anything that is also tied to the Page settings. In this case:
Design > Page Setup > Layout and Routing
... is also encased in the Page. So it broke itself.
Solution:
Delete every connector
Delete the Master "Dynamic connector"
Create a new Page
Copy all shapes over to Page-2
Delete Page-1
Reconnect every connector
Luckily for me, I only had 20 connectors to recreate. Hopefully this thread comes in handy for someone else!
*EDIT: Clarification*
The images I have shown look like the diagonals are moving at angles parallel to the shapes.
The reality is, every connector was moving at a different odd angle. If I created new Squares, no ShapeSheet data, the connectors still moved at strange angles. There was no convergence to where they were pointed. All settings for angular snapping were disabled.
I found the solution.
It doesn't have anything to do with the ShapeSheet.
What happened, was I changed the page settings:
Design > Page Setup
I removed "Auto Size"
But since this involves changing settings for the Page, Visio creates gremlins for anything that is also tied to the Page settings. In this case:
Design > Page Setup > Layout and Routing
... is also encased in the Page. So it broke itself.
Solution:
Delete every connector
Delete the Master "Dynamic connector"
Create a new Page
Copy all shapes over to Page-2
Delete Page-1
Reconnect every connector
Luckily for me, I only had 20 connectors to recreate. Hopefully this thread comes in handy for someone else!
*EDIT: Clarification*
The images I have shown look like the diagonals are moving at angles parallel to the shapes.
The reality is, every connector was moving at a different odd angle. If I created new Squares, no ShapeSheet data, the connectors still moved at strange angles. There was no convergence to where they were pointed. All settings for angular snapping were disabled.
I also found a solution. Granted, it’s four-plus years later, and I’m using the latest version of Visio. Plus I’m doing a detail drawing, trying to make a right-angle connector go 5/16" right and 3/16" up, so not sure whether this would fix your issue also, but …
- In the Ribbon’s Design tab, click the Page Setup Dialog Box Launcher (the funky little box with an arrow in the bottom corner of the group) to open the Page Setup dialog box.
- Then click the Layout and Routing tab, followed by the Spacing... button to open the Layout and Routing Spacing dialog box.
- In the Connector to Connector and Connector to Shape boxes, adjust the values in the Horizontal and Vertical text boxes to a smaller value.
For me, the defaults were 0.5 in in all four boxes; changing them to 0.25 in fixed the issue.