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URDF/SDF to to Modelica model converter.

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Background info on automatic diagram layout generation #2

Open traversaro opened 6 years ago

traversaro commented 6 years ago

Libraries:

graphviz (MIT License, but the API is C-based)
OGDF (C++ library, but GPL2+ license)

Links:

Graph Layout Support for Model-Driven Engineering : https://d-nb.info/1069290076/34 .
C++ interface to graphviz : http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/graphviz-and-c/184402049 .
Important: graphviz is not threadsafe, and it is one of the reason why they suggest to actually use the executable instead, see https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/issues/1282 .
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15191811/forcing-orthogonal-vertical-or-horizontal-edges-with-dot

traversaro commented 5 years ago

Related: https://github.com/cneben/QuickQanava/blob/5c626197a4be9bc3f0654a1ed889a9c05c1b9733/src/qanGraph.cpp#L1233 .