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Scaling connection lines/arrows

  • April 29, 2021
  • 11 replies
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Hi, 

 

I have an issue with the connection lines and arrows. When scaling higher than a certain percentage, the lines grow and arrowheads grow thinner and thinner in width proportionally. And when Ii scale it smaller, the line grows wide proportionally.

 

A wish would be: when I scale my connection line (with arrowhead) it stays the same width in proportion to it’s length. 

Here I go from 80 % zoomed in to 11 % zoomed out and back again: 


 

11 replies

Robert Johnson
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  • April 29, 2021

@Sara de Hond - I agree, this disproportionate scaling of various objects (connection lines, shape borders, etc.) all seem to be unexpected.

I would suggest combining the following posts in one Wish List Idea post to request that all aspects of these objects scape proportionately.


  • New Here
  • May 15, 2021

Having the same issue. 

There should be a way to have the object scale to the relative same proportion. 

Similar to outlining a shape with a stroke in illustrator, once the shape is outlined it can scale up and down and keep the same proportions.


I agree. Especially the small arrowheads when you have a zoomed out flow is a nuisance, you barely see them while you do see the line.


  • New Here
  • February 18, 2022

My Miro board is so full of things, and the connecting lines are not within boxes to scale - but between boxes, I need a different method to scale my lines because when I zoom out to see the bigger picture, the connecting lines between boxes are almost unseeable...Plus, I am using a tablet, not a computer with a mouse, so scaling in and out the way shown in the Youtube video is not easy at all…

 


 

I would really love it if it could be fixed, often times miro drops me in at 2% zoom and I start building a page only to find out later when I want to use a line that I am unable to make a nice proportionally thick line, the highest I can get with line thickness is capped and unable to go higher than `strokeWidth: 20` which feels like a superficial limitation that could be fixed by letting me go beyond the limits the UI set for me.

 


Same here. It actually worked. Buy stopped around 1-2 weeks ago, arrow lines are extremely thin and almost invisible. Need this fixed soon. 


My company is thinking on moving to LucidChart because of this issue


  • New Here
  • March 27, 2023

Am suffering the same pain.  Building a large tree diagram and the sizing of the arrowheads is way out of whack - they’re almost half the size of the post-its that make up the nodes of the tree and it throws out the visual hierarchy I’m aiming for.


  • Beginner
  • October 24, 2023

What about this one, community? I’m trying to use orthogonal connectors (it’s selected), but Miro is placing curved connectors between the objects instead. Your thoughts?


  • New Here
  • January 23, 2024

Connection Line width are a big issue on our boards.  Zooms gets down to 2-5% and the line is not visible.  It has been an issue for several years. 


Jan Holzer
  • Beginner
  • January 24, 2024

Same here . Found out the hard way this also applies to (of course) line jumps which become invisible as you select a thicker line width