oms101@freeuk.com wrote:
Visio is a fine vector based drawing package which can integrate into databases to build them via ODBC. I have never used the DB features but the vector drawing features made it supurb for documenting the data flow for a large server. I enjoyed the job so much I proposed an imnproved design that we built.
I'll be honest, I dont' know what CASE tools are, but if you are talking UML/OO etc.. then I have been doing this for years. I am currently using dia to produce all my UML diagrams for my thesis.. I'm not sure if this is the kind of thing you mean, but it's similar to visio ;)..
visio is one of those products that M$ bought rather than created so if you get to try it you may find its UI more photoshop than MS word.
I am currently trying out troff's box macros for the same job, what is latex like for data flow diagrams?