Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems

Post by lenkite » Sun, Jan 05, 2020, 7:31 AM UTC

alixanderwang wrote: post #33

starefossen wrote: post #31

Any thoughts on support for textual representation of the diagrams?

What do you mean by textual? Like ascii art? In general I’d love to be able to export this to some non-web format, but I just don’t know any that fit given that there’s 3 dimensions (layers of the diagram, scenarios for each layer, and frames for each scenario). All the formats only support linear traversal (eg pdf pages, gif frames). Exporting as a directory of files viewed as a tree hierarchy is the closest I can t…

Post by vasergen » Sun, Jan 05, 2020, 8:02 AM UTC

Post by alixanderwang » Sun, Jan 05, 2020, 8:12 AM UTC

vasergen wrote: post #43

Would be nice to have examples, so after login user can use them, to check how tool is working, what are layers and scenarios.

Post by alixanderwang » Sun, Jan 05, 2020, 8:16 AM UTC

berkayozturk wrote: post #44

I highly recommend https://draw.io

Post by based2 » Sun, Jan 05, 2020, 8:33 AM UTC

gugagore wrote: post #28

wokwokwok wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've often needed something like this, but, sadly, once again, this isn't it. No discredit to you; this is great work, but for me, personally: The world does not need more diagram editors. Diagrams are fundamentally not the right tool for the problem I have. The problem I have is that I have a technical system, for example, a network diagram, or an architecture diagram of a system or set of systems; and I need the da…

I don't have any personal experience from it aside from viewing an existing architecture once, but from what I could tell, the ArchiMate language supports this, possibly via a concept called "viewpoints" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArchiMate#Viewpoints ). There is a free and open-source tool for it: https://www.archimatetool.com/ .