From the course: OmniGraffle for UX and Brainstorming

Diagram with shapes and lines - OmniGraffle Tutorial

From the course: OmniGraffle for UX and Brainstorming

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Diagram with shapes and lines

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- [Instructor] The organization chart is a classic diagram that you can make in OmniGraffle. We're going to get started using shapes and lines. Before we do, I wanted to note that I've closed this sidebar and also closed the expanded tool set. We won't be needing either of those tools at this time so I've just gotten it out of the way, but if your interface looks a little different, that's nothing to worry about. To get started, I'm going to click the shape tool, and I'm actually going to click it a second time. For all the tools in OmniGraffle, one click gets you one use, but a second click gets you persistent use. So we're going to make several shapes. Drag that out and make a rectangle, and I'm going to make about three rectangles. Don't worry too much about the size, but you may notice that you get those snapping marks 'cause OmniGraffle likes to help you make things a consistent size. So now I've got my three rectangles there, and I'm going to connect them with lines. So again, I'm going to go to the line tool, and I'm going to click it once and then a second time. So now you can see with the line tool, that as I mouse over these shapes, get highlighted. I can click one and then click a second shape to connect it with the line. I'm going to repeat that process. Now I'm going to switch back to my regular arrow or selection tool. And the final thing in this movie is just to see that now that these shapes are connected with lines, the lines move with the shapes, and I call both the shapes and the lines objects, because this is fundamentally different than a vector drawing program, such as Illustrator where the lines and the shapes would just simply be vectors or lines. In this case, they're objects. OmniGraffle knows them to be connected, and as you move them, they move together. That's a really powerful aspect of the program.

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