Various Kinds of Connector Caption Alignment

Before seeing how to set a connector's caption alignment, let's take a look at the various kind of alignment.

Horizontal Only (default option)

Connector captions will always appear horizontally ignoring the slope of connector.

Horizontal or Vertical Only

Connector caption may appear horizontally or vertically, depending on the slope of connector.

Follow Connector Angle

Connector captions will be aligned with the connectors, i.e. to follow their slopes.

Follow Connector Angle and Keep Text Up Right

Similar to the previous option but differs in that this option will make the text always start from left to right. If we focus on the connector between “Class” and “Class6”, we can see that the previous option will cause the text to appear invert, but this option not.

Setting Caption Alignment

Diagram based

Changing the diagram based setting will affect all connectors in the diagram. To set, right-click on the diagram background and select Connectors in the popup menu. There you can select an option in the Caption Orientation section.

Connector based

The connector based setting overrides the diagram and workspace setting (unless Follow Diagram is selected). To set, right-click on a connector and select Style and Formatting > Connector Style in the popup menu, and choose an option from the Caption Orientation section.

Workspace wide

Workspace wide setting affects the new connectors being created in projects created or will be created under the current workspace, including the opening project. To set, select Tools > Options from the main menu.

In the Options dialog box, open the Diagramming page, switch to the Connector tab and select the desired way of aligning caption under the Caption Orientation drop down menu.

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