Setting for shorter standard lenght arrows in class diagram

Question

I would like to have a setting (skinparam) for shorter standard arrow length in class diagrams. I find myself always having trouble to squeeze in all classes I would like to show without making the diagram too big. Shorter arrows between the class boxes would help a lot, I think. Or maybe there is a way to acheive this already that I have missed?

Best Regards

asatter

Answer 1

To set the separation of nodes, you should use skinparam Ranksep and skinparam Nodesep

Comments

Hi,

Which are the default values for those skinparams?

And  value range?

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With some experimentionI have discover that the default values are (currently):
 

skinparam nodesep 35
skinparam ranksep 60

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Is there also an equivalent to use within a style block allowing to add this to individual elements?

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No, nodesep and ranksep are for the entire diagram. You'll need a different solution...