#YED GRAPH EDITOR HOW TO#
#YED GRAPH EDITOR FOR MAC#
#YED GRAPH EDITOR OFFLINE#

One thing yED can do is easily draw arrows to and from groups, which can’t do without a hack. The comparison with my text-based app is more interesting. Perhaps I was wasting my time, as yED can do it, at least it can, now in 2018 -( (Actually I don’t nest groups very often at all, but as Theorymaker, my “Logic of Theories of Change” -(), allows for it, I need a graphing app which can do this too.) I couldn’t find any suitable graphing app which could do this easily, which is one reason why I started creating my drag-and-drop app at i. Comparison with my own Theorymaker apps:įor me, it’s really important to be able to put nodes inside groups, and that these can be nested. I did try Lucidchart, which is free for small diagrams with up to 60 entities - but it doesn’t have groups and doesn’t seem to re-route connectors. In my opinion it is really important to maximise use of space, i.e. text needs to be as big as possible without too much white space, so you can actually read the diagram e.g. when pasted into a document. There is very limited support for keyboard shortcuts, basically you can press Ctrl+W to add a child node or Ctrl+D to duplicate one. It’s a bit clunky to add a lot of material initially. Found the same complaint on StackOverflow but no solution. yED can write graphml and the R package igraph should be able to import it, but the import fails with warnings. I’d like to be able to inter-operate with R.

#YED GRAPH EDITOR HOW TO#

I’ve not worked out how to make nodes auto-fit to the width of the text - you have to do this manually with tools/fit node to label Not implemented or I’ve not worked out how to do it: You can easily create non-standard edges. There is a Properties panel which allows you to change the properties of a multiple selection of nodes. Looking at the diagrams which people make at, lots of text is a pretty common problem - though I’m not a fan of it myself. That’s pretty important when you’ve got a lot of text. You can import node and edge lists from xls and from “ trivial graph format ”. Supports plenty of unicode symbols and emojis (I haven’t found any which aren’t supported.) It allows you to put nodes inside groups, and these can be nested, and also opened & closed - good for complicated diagrams.

Various automatic layouts, e.g. hierarchical

#YED GRAPH EDITOR FOR MAC#

(Looks like it’s available for Mac and Linux too.) I had to install as administrator because otherwise the installation routine said I didn’t have the correct rights.

#YED GRAPH EDITOR OFFLINE#

I installed the offline version for Windows. (I might be wrong on this.) Offline version So the main advantage is just that you don’t have to bother to install anything, rather than that you could work or share collaboratively. It has plenty of functionality but you don’t seem to be able to save to a public address, so that you could for example share a link to a diagram with someone else. TL DR: Seems like a very useful tool for Theories of Change. Here I’m going to make some notes about using yED graph editor for Theory of Change diagrams.

Yed graph editor