Is there a possibility to scale the label symbol with the element?

Question

I try to make a custom symbol by combining the "Entity" and the "Relationship" symbol from the Entity Relationship Shapes. Therefore i put the Relationship-Symbol ontop of the Entity-Symbol and convert the Relationship symbol to a label.

Unfortunally the size of the Label-Symbol seems to be fixed. The Labelsymbol should scaling equally to the underlying Element.

Is there a way to acchieve this?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, yEd does not offer a (direct) way for label icons to be scaled depending on node size.

As a workaround, try exporting your custom symbol as SVG and then importing the generated SVG document as a custom node symbol. Please see How can I use my own node symbols in yEd? for details on importing custom node symbols.

Comments

Importing the costum symbol as SVG does not solve the problem, because the line-thickness is now scaling with the node size. Besides it isn't possible to adjust display-properties on imported SVGs...

Is it possible to specify the size of the label-symbol dynamically by using property-variables from the node?

Something like {node.width} / {node.height}

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Unfortunately, no. yEd does not offer such scripting possibilities.