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title: "Customize a diagram | Lansweeper Platform"
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description: "Personalize Lansweeper diagrams by changing layouts, adjusting settings, and managing how objects and groups display. Export to share your customized view."
status: "update"
updated: 2026-07-30T09:03:31Z
published: 2026-07-30T09:03:31Z
canonical: "docs.lansweeper.com/customize-a-diagram"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.lansweeper.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Customize a diagram

You can personalize your diagrams to better suit your needs. Customizations include changing layouts, adjusting settings, and managing how objects or groups are displayed.

              Customizations are visible only to you

              

These changes are only visible to you and are not shared with other users. To share a customized version of a diagram, use the **Export** option.

## Customize layouts

Customize the way your diagram is organized by manually adjusting objects, switching between layouts, or managing logical groups.

### Move assets

You can adjust where objects are placed in your diagram:

- Move assets: select an object and drag it to a new position
- Multi-select: hold `Ctrl`+`Left click` to select multiple objects at once

              Object positions are not saved

              

Object positions are **not saved**. Any refresh (regeneration, page reload, or filter change) automatically resets their placement.

### Select layouts

Layouts let you instantly reorganize a diagram without manually moving assets:

- Star layout: display assets and their relations in a star-shaped branching pattern
- Tree layout: display assets and their relations in a hierarchical tree

              Large diagrams switch to Optimized layout automatically

              

When a diagram displays more than 2,000 visible assets, Lansweeper automatically switches it to the **Optimized layout** for faster rendering, and the **Star layout** and **Tree layout** options become unavailable. The previous layout resumes once the asset count drops below 2,000, for example after applying a filter or collapsing groups.

Assets in an expanded group count individually toward this total. A collapsed group counts as 1 asset, regardless of how many assets it contains.

### Manage logical groups

Logical groups can be opened or closed in bulk.

Select **Expand groups** or **Collapse groups** to expand or collapse them at once.

## Customize settings

The settings panel lets you control the content and appearance of your diagram.

### Informational settings

Choose which information gets displayed in your diagram.

- Relation visibility: select which relation types to display
  - **Discovered SNMP relations**: discovered automatically based on the network information in your inventory
  - **Other discovered relations**: detected through Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
  - **Relations created manually**: created manually in the inventory using asset relations

              Assets with hidden relations stay in the diagram

              

Hiding some relations may cause assets to appear without visible relations. They are not considered orphaned assets, and are not removed from the diagram.

- Asset actions visibility: select which quick actions appear
  - **Information**: view asset details without leaving the diagram
  - **Issues**: view detected problems on the asset (only visible if issues exist)
  - **Running status**: view the current state of a supported virtual asset (Hyper-V, Citrix, VMware)
- Grouping behavior: select what objects are grouped by
  - **Location**: choose whether to display assets of the Location type
  - **IP location**: choose whether to display assets of the IP location type

### Visualization settings

Choose how relations in your diagram are styled.

- Styling: select a style for relations and adjust their thickness