Arrows are how a diagram turns a pile of shapes into a flow, a hierarchy, or a relationship. Add one with the Arrow tool in the palette's Tools tab, then connect, style, and reshape it however the diagram needs. livediagram gives arrows real flexibility: every line style, draggable curve and elbow handles, and endpoints that snap onto shapes or even onto other arrows.
Drawing and connecting
An arrow links two points on the canvas. An arrow's endpoint can sit freely, pin to a shape's connection anchor (so it tracks the shape as it moves), or attach along another arrow. Drag from a shape's edge to quick-connect, or drop a plain arrow from the palette and position its ends by hand.
Styling the line
From the arrow's context menu you can set its line style, thickness, dash pattern, and arrowheads, and add a label. The controls are independent, so you can mix any line with any head. See Arrow styles for the full set.
Shaping the path
Curved and angled arrows expose a draggable handle so you can bow a curve or position an elbow exactly where the diagram needs it, without breaking the arrow's connections.
Curve and elbow handles
Drag the handle on a curved or angled arrow to shape its path by hand.
Connecting arrows to arrows
Snap an arrow endpoint to a point along another arrow, the sequence-diagram pattern, and it rides along as the line moves.
Need a connector to bend around other elements? Switch its line style to Angled for a clean axis-aligned elbow, then drag the handle to position the bend.
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