LAUNCHED: Custom connection points on shapes in FigJam

This would be so useful! Especially for Entity Relationship Diagrams. I’m also interested in this idea, which could really help in some scenarios.

Please add this feature. It’s very difficult to create ERDs in FigMa.

I agree this is necessary before considering a move from Visio for a material amount of my work.

Very much would love this to be added. I would love to be able to ditch MIRO for most of my diagram needs to keep it in one tool. This is one of those features that limit for clarity needs IMO.

Chiming in, I keep hitting this limitation and getting frustrated for technical diagramming.

This will be a great feature for FigmaJam, I am not sure how Figma developers havent deduce that, as is a normal feature in other solutions. We should share this request with more people to and atract more attention to this, searching on this I can see that it pops out from time to time.

I would totally use this all the time for technical software engineering diagrams for my team. It’s really hard for me to do distinct io flows without everything mushing together right now

I’m not sure if I’ve missed something, but I think this functionality already exists. If you snap an arrow/line to one of the four connection points and then press control whilst dragging the connection point along horizontally/vertically in line with the connection point, you can create any number of bespoke connection points.

@Lord_Hill is right. They totally fixed this. This was the big “deal breaker” me for designing anything complex in FigJam. Thanks Figma!

Hey All,

@Lord_Hill and @Dave_Mitchell are correct! We launched this capability on August 20th. Technically, you do not need to hold control, there are new “hover zones” to detect the intent whether one of the 4 cardinal endpoints, the edge of a shape, or somewhere arbitrary within the node.

🚀 Here’s the launch tweet from our FigJam Team: