Nice HTML5-based Online Modeling Tool

Posted by tsaixingwei on Saturday September 25, 2010 @09:39PM
from the anchormodeling.com dept.

http://www.anchormodeling.com/modeler/

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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Re:Nice HTML5-based Online Modeling Tool by vyrotek on Saturday September 25, 2010 @10:27PM (#1728368)

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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Re:Nice HTML5-based Online Modeling Tool by oscilloscope on Saturday September 25, 2010 @10:12PM (#1728359)

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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Re:Nice HTML5-based Online Modeling Tool by tsaixingwei on Saturday September 25, 2010 @10:43PM (#1728393)

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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