Hi Tim,

If you need to minimize the diagram size, try running any of the layout algorithms with MultipleGraphsPlacement set to MiminalArea. For this to work you must also set SplitGraph = true for layouts that support this property, and there shouldn't be any links between the nodes.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

The algorithms look easy enough, and you could still use the MinimialArea layout feature to determine whether the currently tested node would fit into a diagram.

So you loop over a list of nodes, an internal loop adds them to a diagram and runs MinimalArea layout. Then you accept the current node in the current diagram if GetContentBounds is smaller than your max size. If it's larger, you try the next diagram in the list, and if no diagram accommodates the node, create a new one for it.

The problem is we have never optimized the MinArea layout for frequent use, and this will probably be very slow.

Stoyan