Nice HTML5-based Online Modeling Tool

anchormodeling.com

5 pointstsaixingwei3 comments

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.

Open articleView on HN

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...

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.

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.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com