Power BI MODEL VIEW - Relationship Lines Now Travel BEHIND Tables Instead of AROUND Them

[WinterMist]

Hello Community - 

Usually, in the Power BI Desktop Model View, relationship lines go AROUND tables.

If a table is dragged to where a line is, the application automatically moves the line so that it goes around whatever table is moved.

Some time ago, the PROD version of a report stopped doing this.

Now the majority of the relationship lines travel BEHIND table objects, making the model much more difficult to read.

I've tried to drag the tables or lines, but it doesn't work, and I can't find a setting that just auto handles it.  (Normally it just handles it without me doing anything.)

In other cases, I could just wipe out the file & start from scratch.  (Maybe it's some glitch.)

But since this is the PROD file, I cannot do that.

Any suggestion to fixing this without manually destroying all the relationships & manually re-creating them one by one?

Thanks,

Nathan

[Blaken_Awesome]

I've had this issue now in 2026 and it's driving me crazy when trying to track down modeling issues.

I put all my dimensions on the Y axis and all the facts on the X axis, but for some reason the relationship lines just started passing through tables despite there being a clear path (denoted in red).

I can get the lines to do what I want by expanding the tables and making them SUPER tall, but they did not used to have to be this tall. I imagine it has something to do with collapsing the card resetting how the lines form.

I'm sure this is the last thing on Microsoft's mind, but it bothers me a lot every times I look at it. If anyone finds a fix or a request to upvote, please let me know.

[Blaken_Awesome]

I posted my problem to "Issues", please upvote if you have experienced this:

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Issues/Model-View-layout-won-t-place-relationships-on-vert... 

[microsoftBI]

Still running in to this.

Just installed the newer powerBI version and now my whole datamodel looks like a failed spaghetti instead of the clean model it was before.

Honestly no clue why this feature is removed and not available anymore, can't imagine this coming from any user feedback.

please fix this microsoft 

[than689]

Hi, I'm still facing this issue in May 2025. My data model is a necessarily large star schema, the diagram looked great in 2023 and is now unreadable in current PBI versions. I don't think any defense of the change can stand up against the fact that it makes the model view of PBI seem broken and unusable for anyone with a large model. I'm really surprised more people have not kicked up a fuss about this. Am I missing something?

[NewbNeedHelp]

Me too :(. It's driving me insane.

[sanglq1]

God **bleep** it lmao. I just recently upgraded from May 2023 to September 2024 and this happens. Not gotta endure this. So annoying.

[Anonymous]

This problem still persists a year later.

[PBIPete]

Not fixed as of me having the issue 24th May - however I can confirm that reverting to the June 2023 Update has corrected the file on open. The problem occured for me in Sept update, I have not yet tested if updating to latest version bring the issue back - for now, I need to work on this file!

[JordanW_EBE]

Still not fixed.

[PettJo101]

I agree! I am dealing with the same thing ever since September/Oct 2023 updates. It's very frustrating. Also whenever I hover over to highlight a line, it highlights a completely different line. I contacted support 3 times and at first they didn't see it on their end until I showed them examples. They said they were working on it, but nothing has been fixed.

They need to fix this because it is super frustrating and has been an issue for 6 months now. 

[OlivierBigot]

Hello

I'm getting the same eversince I added a table the relationships started not avoiding the tables : 

[CharlotteKeulen]

I have the same issue, it looks horrid. My previously organized data model was clear to read, but now the relationship lines are an absolute mess, with even diagonal lines in it.

[arnie]

It's the ugliest update from Power BI thus far!! Whoever approved it should be fired!!

[WinterMist]

@vicky_  - Thanks for this information.  I appreciate you englightening me.

@v-yueyunzh-msft  - Is this truly a bug & is it something Microsoft is aware of and or working to resolve?

Thank you both.

Nathan

[vicky_]

I'm pretty sure this is a bug with the latest version of PowerBI, as it's something that i've experienced myself. What might work is to download / roll-back to a PBI version where it was working and wait for the MS team to fix it.