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I don't have a story per say but I do hope you update Network Atlas soon. I actually love the tool but its seriously dated, clunky to use and very very slow. In the past I've actually resorted to using Visio to design the map and the add the blobs onto it, due to the lack of graphical ability with in Network Atlas.
I really hope good things will come in the future as its a very underrated feature on NPM
My method to do that is just to copy paste the objects that i want to match, then right click its properties and change the object associated with it. When I'm doing a LOT of maps i tend to just get all my preferred graphics set up how i like them with the appropriate variables in their captions and such and I save that to a map and use it almost the way you would use an icon pack toolbar in visio. There is also the align buttons on the edit tab to help with the line up you mentioned, but it would be nice if Atlas was more in line with the state of the art in those kind of tools. To be honest my dream would be just to have a visio add-in that tied visio to the solarwinds db. Would end the problem overnight and the solarwinds devs could stay focused on core NPM functions instead of trying to also build a graphical tools that is obviously outside their core competencies.
- Marc Netterfield, 
