This sounds like a really neat idea Dia doesn't offer this of course and implementing it would be rather tricky, can't immediately think of any general-purpose diagram tool that does it
That said I'd love to see some patches implementing this -- Zander Brown <[email protected]> Maintainer: Dia Diagram Editor King's Cross / KGX GNOME Design Tooling (Icon Preview, Colour Palette) Co-Maintainer: GNOME Clocks en_GB Translation Team Me ≢ GNOME On Thu, 2020-01-23 at 11:46 -0500, Christopher Nelson via dia-list wrote: > I love Dia but I'm looking for a tool which lets me create "3d" > diagrams which I can drill down into. > > Say I have a top-level data flow diagram where A sends X to B which > sends Y to C. I want to be able to drill down into B, see X coming in > and Y going out and be able to create B1, B2, B3, etc. as subtasks of > B, interconnect them, hook X and Y up to two of them and save it. > > Or maybe I start by creating a bunch of processes in a complex diagram > then I can multi-select some and say "demote these to detail of a > single process" and have them replaced by a single process on the > current drawing but drilling down later would reveal the detail (while > hiding detail on the top level). > > I could see the same being useful for network diagrams. Your top > level might be data centers with trunks or "the internet" between > them, drilling down could show rooms or racks and their > interconnections, drilling down into a rack would show servers or > switches, etc. > > I've Googled around a bit and not found anything. Does anyone here > know of anything like that? Does it make sense as a direction for a > fork of Dia? > > Chris
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