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I use yEd for drawing this kind of thing. It allows me to make a horribble mess of boxes and arrows, then auto-cleans it up with a few clicks in the menu. It
by hyperman1 3y ago
I use yEd for drawing this kind of thing. It allows me to make a horribble mess of boxes and arrows, then auto-cleans it up with a few clicks in the menu.
It requires making sone compromises, however: Box inside box does not always end well. It is a worthy tradeoff for me, as I can document things much faster, and you get a feel about what will or wont work after a few tries.
- w10-1 3y agoditto. There's no reason to draw anything. Extract relations as tgf (trivial graph format), import, hierarchical layout. tgf: from, to, relation ...
- lstamour 3y agoI use OmniGraffle for similar reasons :)
- walterbell 3y agoIs yEd free to use? The underlying yWorks SDK seems to cost 5 figures for one developer working on one web site. It must be very capable to have customers for ~20 years.
- hyperman1 3y agoTheir page states it is freely available. I cant seem to find the license on their website, unfortunately. I believe it started out as a demo for their paid library, but turned out to be a good standalone application. https://www.yworks.com/products/yed https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
- ygra 3y agoYes, yEd is free to use. The licensing cost you found is indeed for the SDK yEd is built with.