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G'day,<br />
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Have you tried OmniGraffle from the folks at <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com" rel="ugc">www.omnigroup.com</a><br />
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Cheers,<br />
<br />
Arthur
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G'day,

Have you tried OmniGraffle from the folks at www.omnigroup.com [http://www.omnigroup.com]

Cheers,

Arthur

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I second the recomendation for Omni Graffle .. by far the most comprehensive and flexible graphing tool for OSX.<br />
<a href="http://www.macworld.com/2005/12/reviews/omnigrafflepro4/index.php/" rel="ugc">http://www.macworld.com/2005/12/reviews/omnigrafflepro4/index.php/</a><br />
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There is a simpler, freeware application called Dia<br />
<a href="http://dia.darwinports.com/" rel="ugc">http://dia.darwinports.com/</a>
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I second the recomendation for Omni Graffle .. by far the most comprehensive and flexible graphing tool for OSX.
http://www.macworld.com/2005/12/reviews/omnigrafflepro4/index.php/ [http://www.macworld.com/2005/12/reviews/omnigrafflepro4/index.php/]

There is a simpler, freeware application called Dia
http://dia.darwinports.com/ [http://dia.darwinports.com/]

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Does omnigraffle actually let you write out actually Entities and attributes for the entities though?<br />
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I saw it can do just the logical entity relationship, but I cannot pop specific attributes per entity into each table as I can in visio.
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Does omnigraffle actually let you write out actually Entities and attributes for the entities though?

I saw it can do just the logical entity relationship, but I cannot pop specific attributes per entity into each table as I can in visio.

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Not as far as I know.. I don't think it goes that far.. send a quick email to Omni Group.<br />
I'm afraind you may be stuck with Visio for the moment
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Not as far as I know.. I don't think it goes that far.. send a quick email to Omni Group.
I'm afraind you may be stuck with Visio for the moment

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I'm having difficulty finding something equivalent to Visio in OS/X that's able to draw sophisticated Entity Relationship Diagrams.<br />
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Would anyone be able to suggest something worthwhile?
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I'm having difficulty finding something equivalent to Visio in OS/X that's able to draw sophisticated Entity Relationship Diagrams.

Would anyone be able to suggest something worthwhile?

Entity Relationship Software for OS/X

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