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Alex_Carvalho1
Alex_Carvalho1
February 29, 2024

Bring connectors to Figma Design... properly!

  • February 29, 2024
  • 3 replies
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I’ve been using connectors in Figma Design (via a simple ‘hack’ of copy pasting them from a FigJam document), and they are supported as connectors, they behave as expected (anchoring on groups, frames, layers, etc), but they’re quite buggy (they seem to be always outside any grouping, and when copy pasting them they can end up all broken up and weird places in the canvas).

So my request is simple: fully support connectors in Figma Design, they’re useful for linking flows, annotations, etc.

Figma team: make this happen quick please, don’t hit the brakes now.

    3 replies

    y_toku
    Figmate
    y_toku
    Community Support
    March 5, 2024

    Thanks all for your idea! Please let me consolidate community voice to one topic - FigJam connectors in Figma

    Thanks!

    y_toku
    Figmate
    y_toku
    Community Support
    March 5, 2024

    2 posts were merged into an existing topic: FigJam connectors in Figma

    Dung_Le
    Dung_Le
    New Participant
    August 27, 2026

    ​@Alex_Carvalho1  that matches my experience exactly — the copy-paste hack does give you genuine connectors, but the paste itself is where it falls apart: they land outside the grouping you wanted, and sometimes scatter to odd places on the canvas.

    What I landed on was to stop pasting them by hand. I built Snapflow, which seeds one connector into the file once, then creates every connector after that programmatically and positions it directly — so there's no paste step left to go wrong. They're still the real native connector nodes, so they anchor to objects, re-route when you move things, and keep working after the plugin is closed.

    It does the same for the FigJam shapes, sticky notes, tables and stamps, so there's no reason to keep a FigJam file open alongside your design file. Free, no account, nothing locked.

    Snapflow

    Still voting for this to be native, though — a plugin shouldn't be the answer to something FigJam has had for years.

    Disclosure: I'm the author.

     

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