I'm trying to build an "hardware architecture" graph using plantuml component diagrams and I'm struggling with the layout.
My graph is growing to be pretty complex and I'm noticing plantuml keeps on adding frames left to right, making the graph grow horizontally.
From this code for example
@startuml
' -----------------------------------------------------
skinparam defaultTextAlignment center
' -----------------------------------------------------
top to bottom direction
frame Pippo as pippo {
frame "Pippo Deploy" {
node "xxx1\nfoo" <<windows 7>>
}
frame "Pippo Core" {
node "===xxx2\nbar" <<amiga>>
node "===xxx2\nbar" <<amiga>>
node "===xxx3\nbar" <<amiga>>
node "===xxx4\nbar" <<amiga>>
node "===xxx5\nbar" <<amiga>>
node "===xxx6\nbar" <<amiga>>
node "===xxx7\nbar" <<amiga>>
}
frame "Pippo Additional Servers" {
node "===xxx8\nfoo" <<windows 7>>
node "===xxx9\nfoo" <<windows 7>>
node "===xxx10\nfoo" <<windows 7>>
node "===xxx11\nfoo" <<windows 7>>
node "===xxx12\nfoo" <<windows 7>>
node "===xxx13\nbar" <<amiga>>
}
frame "Pippo other" {
node "===xxx14\nfoo" <<windows server 2003>>
}
}
frame "Pluto" as pluto {
frame "Pluto 1" {
node "===xxx15\nfoo" <<windows server 2012>>
node "===xxx16\nfoo" <<windows 7>>
node "===xxx17\nbar" <<amiga>>
}
frame "Pluto 2" {
node "===xxx18\nfoo" <<windows server 2003>>
node "===xxx19\nfoo" <<windows 7>>
node "===xxx20\nfoo" <<windows 7>>
}
}
pippo --[hidden]> pluto
@enduml
I would like instead to have the frame "Pluto" under the frame "Pippo"
See that I already used an hidden link and top to bottom direction
, trying to force that kind of layout, but with no results.