Creating associations

An association represents a relationship between at most two
tables. Depending on the associations’ multiplicity, a table will be designated
either as parent or as child.
Open ModelSphere offers two types of associations: the right-angle
and the free angle
associations. Both play exactly the same role, only their
appearance is different.
- Right-click the association creation tool.
- Select one of the associations displayed in the ModelSphere toolbar. (While
you can use any of the associations, for the purposes of this example,
choose the angular line association).
- Click somewhere in the middle of the source table, then, in the middle of
the target table.
- Add the associations as depicted in the following example.
If you create a recursive association and manually bring every point to
the center point of the table, you will graphically lose the association. To
get them back Layout entire diagram or Layout a selection of the diagram.