For a while now, Sirius has integrated ELK (Eclipse Layout Kernel)  to make it easier to define your own custom diagram layouts.  ELK provides  several layout styles  that can be used directly . But it can also be useful to develop your own layout algorithm to address your specific needs. As a reminder, ELK provides two things: a collection of layout algorithms, and an infrastructure that bridges ...

One of the main benefits of diagrams is that they can make it very easy to quickly grasp the overall structure of a model. As the saying goes “a picture is worth a thousand words”. However this is only true if the layout of the diagram is actually good. Laying out large diagrams manually can be very cumbersome, so Eclipse Sirius has always supported automatic diagram layout (through the “ Arrange ...