Straight lines are not always enough. When two connectors would overlap, or a line needs to route around a shape, a curved or angled arrow gives you a path you can shape by hand. Both styles expose a draggable handle on the line that controls how it bends.
Choosing a bendable style
The handle appears once you give the arrow a curved or angled geometry. Open the arrow's right-click context menu and, under the Pointer category, set the Line style:
- Curved draws a gentle bezier that bows away from the straight chord between the endpoints.
- Angled draws an axis-aligned L-shaped elbow, with horizontal and vertical segments meeting at a bend.
Dragging the handle
For a curved arrow, drag the handle to control how far and which way the line bows.
Releasing the drag commits the new shape, and like other drag edits it collapses into a single undo step, so one tap of undo returns the line to where it was before you started.
Keeping connections intact
Reshaping an arrow does not break its endpoints. If an end is pinned to a shape, or attached along another arrow, it stays connected while you bend the line, and an attached endpoint keeps riding at the same point along its target. This means you can route a connector cleanly without losing the relationships it represents.
If a curve or elbow ends up in the wrong place after the endpoints move, just drag the handle again, the path is always re-shapeable while the arrow is selected.
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