After a long time I got the idea to start a blog again to post about technical problems, their solutions and other stuff so that i don't forget it myself.
(years ago i had wordpress on my server, but killed it because i did not want to care for security updates all the time)
Recently i was searching for a diagram editor (or software that allowed the same results and) reviewed multiple different ones.
What i wanted was a tool to paint something like that and the lines between the shapes should stick to the shapes when i move them around:
I know of course Dia, Inkscape and Kivio and tried them again, but i was not really thrilled.
In the end i found yEd, a free(as in beer) java program that is perfect for the task to create diagrams.
It has powerful features to layout graphs automatically, though i don't need this.
But it also can route the paths between the shapes automatically and helps with snap lines to organize shapes nicely.
It's IMO a great tool and worth a try:
http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html
The website also has some examples.
When I understand it correctly then yEd is basically a showcase to demonstrate the features of yworks java library.

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