Flowchart-ish tool

[Steven Stern]

On 12/10/2009 10:14 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I am trying to create a visual aid for some complex relationships (not
> software, sorry). It would seem that some flowchart, or similar
> software, might assist. I need to show the relationships between items
> and groups of items, and I really don't want to do it by hand.
>
> Ideally I would identify a group of items as a group, so they could be
> place near one another or marked with the same color, or similar. Then I
> want to describe the relationship between them, (ex: 'depends on', or
> 'funds') and the relationship might look different from each end. Simple
> example A and B, from A B has relation 'child' while from B A has
> relation 'parent'. That term 'properties' seems to be used in some
> things I found, but I haven't gotten a solution.
>
> Does this ring a bell with anyone? Or even suggest a good manual tool,
> neither xfig nor gimp is ideal.
>
You might be able to do this  in a mind-map tool like XMind. 
http://xmind.net

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   Steve