Force lines to overlap vs stagger separately

[samcro1967]

Trying to determine how to get all of the lines going from a node in one level to all nodes in the next level down to overlap rather than display staggered and totally separate. Is this possible?

Here is what I have right now:

Here is what I would like to have:

[clayms]

Have a look at the following issue comments:

#358 (comment)
#358 (comment)

I don't think you can do that with orthogonal edges. However, you might be able to use a plaintext Node and set the node's horizontal and vertical sizes to "0". Might not be worth the time though.

Also, please post your code.

[samcro1967]

Adding "concentrate":"true" and "splines":"spline" to graph_attr accomplished what I was looking for. Thank you.

graph_attr = {
    "fontsize": "22.5",
    "fontcolor":"black",
    "fontname": "Sans serif",
    "layout":"dot",
    "concentrate":"true",
    "splines":"spline",
}

  blank1 = Node("", shape="plaintext", height="0.0", width="0.0")
  caddy_auth_portal - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1")- blank1
  blank1 - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1") - management_group
  blank2 = Node("", shape="plaintext", height="0.0", width="0.0")
  caddy_auth_portal - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1")- blank2
  blank2 - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1") - downloads_group
  blank3 = Node("", shape="plaintext", height="0.0", width="0.0")
  caddy_auth_portal - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1")- blank3
  blank3 - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1") - media_mgmt_group
  blank4 = Node("", shape="plaintext", height="0.0", width="0.0")
  caddy_auth_portal - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1")- blank4
  blank4 - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1") - media_utils_group
  blank5 = Node("", shape="plaintext", height="0.0", width="0.0")
  caddy_auth_portal - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1")- blank5
  blank5 - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1") - monitoring_group
  blank6 = Node("", shape="plaintext", height="0.0", width="0.0")
  caddy_auth_portal - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1")- blank6
  blank6 - Edge(color="blue", style="bold", tailport="s", headport="n", minlen="1") - media_access_group