Can I draw multiple edges simultaneously?

Question

Say I want to draw edges from single “parent” node to several different “child” ones. All edges are to be the same — e.g. all pointing to the childs.

Is there a way to mass-select all child nodes and draw all the edges to them (from that single parent node) simultaneously?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, that is currently not possible in yEd.

The closest you can get to this behavior is by selecting all the child nodes, using "Edit" -> "Add Child" (or CTRL+W), selecting the new edges, and choosing "Tools" -> "Reverse Selected Edges". However, this approach will create a new parent node!

Comments

That was pretty neat!

Thanks, problem is solved. I had to manually reassign the already drawn edges from the old parent to new one, but other then that it worked just great.

p.s. There is a minor question though: to reverse the edges I had to cut the needed segment out into a new file, apply the “Selecting all Elements of a Kind” (http://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/41/how-do-i-select-elements-in-a-diagram) method there and then re-cut and re-paste it back to the main file. Was I doing it right or there is a shorter algorithm for achieving that?

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You could have selected one edge first, and then used either SHIFT+click or SHIFT+drag to select additional edges.

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Thank you very much, the question is expired.