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Re: Mind map / flowcharts with automatic layouts that work

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Post by kermatt » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 6:17 PM UTC

bjterry wrote: post #10

prepend wrote: post #9

I couldn’t find the price or license on the web site. Is this free? How much does it cost?

yEd is freeware. You can see the license by clicking one of the download links. I guess they monetize it by licensing the underlying diagramming libraries to businesses from the looks of it.

DbVisualizer licenses one of their libraries for its ERD feature: https://www.dbvis.com/images/features/screens/navigator1.png

Re: Mind map / flowcharts with automatic layouts that work

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Post by bsg75 » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 6:20 PM UTC

darepublic wrote: post #3

How is this superior to draw.io (or the open source library that underpins it)

Does it claim to be?

It is an option which may or may not fit the varying needs of readers of HN, just as draw.io is.

Re: Mind map / flowcharts with automatic layouts that work

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Post by ygra » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 6:57 AM UTC

korantu wrote: post #6

darepublic wrote: post #3

How is this superior to draw.io (or the open source library that underpins it)

As far as I saw, draw io dors not do automatic layout. Would be very happy to be proven wrong

draw.io has some automatic layouts (Arrange > Layout), but they are fairly basic. In terms of customizability it doesn't come close to yFiles / yEd. (Admittedly, I'm biased; I work for the latter, but the available layout options do indeed speak for themselves.)

Re: Mind map / flowcharts with automatic layouts that work

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Post by ygra » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 6:59 AM UTC

SeriousM wrote: post #4

Isn't resharper using this for the diagrams?

The underlying graph drawing library for WPF, yes. yEd itself is built on the same layouts, but a different rendering platform with Java Swing, of course.