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Nice HTML5-based Online Modeling Tool (anchormodeling.com)
5 points by tsaixingwei 5741 days ago
I was reading up on database design esp. 6NF and came across this website on Anchor Modeling. It has a HTML5-based Online Modeling Tool that looks nice and fun to play with.
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vyrotek 5741 days ago
Looks nice, but the constant floating around and 'wiggling' really bugged me. It took me quite a while to figure out how to add and remove things.

It also reminded me of an ORM tool which I helped build in college called nORMa. It was a plugin for Visual Studio and was great for designing complex databases.

http://www.objectrolemodeling.com/AboutORM/ORMTools/NORMA/ta...

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oscilloscope 5741 days ago
The fluid movement + ghosting is well done. There are the beginnings of a pleasant interface here.

One issue: I couldn't figure out how to connect two nodes to make loops. Adding and deleting worked just find-- but not connecting existing elements.

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tsaixingwei 5741 days ago
There is a bunch of video tutorials on their main site that shows how to create a 'tie'. http://www.anchormodeling.com/?page_id=186

But yeah, I was confused in the beginning too.

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