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:

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General

• floating, dockable, hideable, and tabbed windows
• multi document 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
• pro-version only: '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, line ...
• 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
• pro-version only: 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
• joint arrow heads
• arrow spikes
• arrow head/tail angle
• 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
• color management, create your own color pallets, favorites list
• more than 40 patterns
• line styles
• 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
• show scale in diagram

 

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* requires Microsoft Excel XP (2002) or higher