Overview of e!Sankey Functions

e!Sankey lets you draw your Sankey diagrams easily and comfortably. Numerous features allow you to adapt your Sankey flow charts to your individual needs.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the software's features (items in red are new features of e!Sankey 2.0, out July 2008):

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General

• Floating, dockable, hideable, and tabbed windows
• new: multi file handling on tabbed pages
• Copy to clipboard, copy between diagrams
• Undo and redo
• Overview window zoomed out overview, move visible area
• Unicode support: diagrams with Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Thai, etc. characters
• Templates
• Many sample diagrams

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Import / Export

• Print Sankey diagram
• new in pro-version: 'Excel Live Link' - update diagram flow values from spreadsheet cells
• Export Sankey diagram (BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, and EMF formats)
• Export .sankey files (can be opened by other tools, e.g. Umberto)

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Editor

• Process (node, transition), arrow
• Graphical elements: rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, ...
• Cut / copy / paste diagram structures
• Add text labels, rotate label
• Insert images
• line tool with different line terminators
• Editor options: grid, snap to grid, zoom
• Legend

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Processes

• Drag and resize process symbol
• Hide processes
• Process labels, rotate label
• new: visualize stocks at process with stubs, show in/out or stock difference
• Use images or cliparts as process symbols
• Set arrow connectivity: free, left-to-right, top-to-bottom

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Arrow

• Draw arrows by clicking on a process and directly connecting it to another process
• Add one or more entries to arrow as flows, enter the quantity, and choose a color
• Transparency for crossing arrows
• Stack arrows and change the stacking order
• Arrow options: rounded, orthogonal bends, arrow head, arrow tail
• new: joint arrow heads
• new: arrow spikes
• new: arrow head/tail angle
• new: set arrow curviness
• Arrow border line on/off, set color
• Automatic arrow label with flow name, quantity, unit, arrow comment, rotate label and comment
  

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Colors / Patterns

• Select individual color pallets for each unit type
• new: improved color management, create your own color pallets, favorites list
• new: more than 40 patterns
• new: line styles
• new: background colors
  
• Color settings for all editor elements
• Color transparency, linear gradient

 

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Units and Scaling

• Various Unit Types, such as mass, energy, area, currency, area, length, length time, noise, power, radioactivity and many more.
• Scale each unit type individually using a slider
• Show and hide units
• new: show arrow scale in diagram
  

 

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Further functions, such as importing data from Microsoft Excel, will be implemented in one of the next releases of e!Sankey.