Graffle uses graphviz for layout internally. I would be surprised if
you can't tweak the layout params in graffle to make it look more like
your example. Definitely not as many knobs as gv though.
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On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:43 AM, "Anjo Krank"<anj..rank.net> wrote:
>
> Am 02.12.2009 um 18:14 schrieb Mike Schrag:
>
>> I whipped up a quick graffle generator: http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wolips/eomodelgraffle-latest.jar
>
> Nice work for the 2 hours, but it's worthless for anything > 5
> entities. There is a heuristic in the D2JS thingy which defines
> "entity groups", i.e. subsets of entities that "belong" together
> (possibly by removing lookup entities and ordering by number of
> inbound/outbound relationships) which *might* be of help to make
> this mess a bit cleaner.
>
> So this looks like:
>
> <pastedGraphic.png>
>
>
>
>
> The 0:58:33 GraphViz version looks like:
>
> <pastedGraphic.png>
>
>
>
> Which is at least a bit more readable (although it's still a mess).
> It's based on D2W, so you should be able to call it with
> ERD2WDirectAction as
>
> http://bla/cgi-bin/WebObjects/myapp.woa/wa/GraphVizSomeSetting
>
> and (halfway easily) configure the entities to show. DO NOT ASK ME
> HOW! Look at ERD2WGraphVizPage and adapt/extend/whatever it yourself.
>
> Cheers, Anjo
>
>
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