[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Do you have a setup for drawing sequence dia...
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       Ask HN: Do you have a setup for drawing sequence diagrams with
       draw.io?
        
       Do you have a setup or preferences for drawing sequence diagrams
       with draw.io? What settings work best for you?
        
       Author : thisisabug
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2022-12-11 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
       | officialchicken wrote:
       | Draw a skinny vertical rectangle - this will be the lifetime line
       | of the class. Go to the properties panel on the bottom right of
       | the window, select 'add anchor points' under the 'edit' dropdown.
       | I find 5-8 on the left works well. Then edit the rectangle so
       | that it's only pixel wide (drag, edit, etc.) and set the width to
       | one and linetype dashed. Drag this entity to your toolbar for
       | reuse now and in the future. Now you can attach arrows to any of
       | the anchor points.
        
       | rektide wrote:
       | Apologies for not answering the question, but, wow after doing a
       | couple diagrams in mermaid.js, I've found it to be so much easier
       | & better than everything else I've ever done. Write what you want
       | in text & it does the work to lay it out.
       | 
       | https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/
        
         | alixanderwang wrote:
         | D2's a new diagramming language just added sequence diagrams
         | too: https://d2lang.com/tour/sequence-diagrams. (disclaimer: i
         | work on this)
        
         | mdaniel wrote:
         | I agree with this response[1]: draw.io is the wrong level of
         | abstraction for sequence diagrams, in my opinion. It'd be like
         | asking how to make sequence diagrams in Google Slides:
         | possible, but crazy
         | 
         | 1: although in my specific case, I get more utility out of
         | PlantUML but same-same
        
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