I, too, have been looking for a tool that will generate clean, styleable structural diagrams, but I haven't found the perfect one yet. The best I've found is M

I, too, have been looking for a tool that will generate clean, styleable structural diagrams, but I haven't found the perfect one yet. The best I've found is Mermaid [1], which has a Graphviz-like grammar. Unlike Graphviz, it can generate very clear, orthogonally laid-out diagrams with minimal effort, and it works better because it's designed for flowcharting (it supports classic flow diagrams, too). On the other hand, because it was designed for flowcharting, the automatic layout can generate less reasonably clutter when you have many entities with many connections. In particular, if you tried to generate the OP's diagram, I suspect it would accidentally lay out the boxes in a way that made some arrows cross — but I didn't actually try. I've been considering writing a better tool for some time, but the layout is a hard theoretical nut to crack, and I'm not sure I would be up for it. The best idea I've had so far is to use genetic algorithms with some a fitness measurement that promotes cleanness (overlapping lines, density, horizontal/vertical extent and so on). [1] https://knsv.github.io/mermaid/ https://knsv.github.io/mermaid/