[AccessD] Relationships to Visio?

Large format printer..that's the hot setup.  I did set my second monitor to
highest resolution and got all the tables on the display that way which made
it much easier to work with, then printed it out landscape, narrow margins
which was only two pages to tape together.  The BE is changing every day
right now so Visio - while providing a better diagram - would have too much
overhead.  And the diagram it generated covered 8 pages.  


Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
858-259-4334
www.e-z-mrp.com
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:59 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Relationships to Visio?

Rocky,

The times I've used the relationships diagram for a big project, I'd spend
quite a bit of time positioning the tables and lining up the join lines and
spacing everything so that it was readable even though it stretched out
beyond the bounds of normal paper.  Then I'd do screen captures of the
different sections of the diagram and splice them all together in some
graphics program.  Finally I'd print out the full diagram so that it spanned
several sheets.  Then scissors and tape to make a relationships diagram
suitable for framing.

These days I might get somebody where I work to print the full diagram on
one of the large format printers we have.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> I find the relationships form to be a PITA to work with.  The scroll 
> wheel doesn't work and there's not enough real estate to get the 
> tables on one form so I'm always scrolling up and down and left and right.
>
> Once I get the tables and relationships laid out is there a way to get 
> it over to Visio where I could move the tables around more easier to 
> make a more readable relationships diagram?  Even if possible, would 
> Visio be a good program to do this?  OR what does anyone else do with 
> this relationships thing to make it more presentable.
>
> MTIA,
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