I tried your tips and attached a screen shot of what I ended up with. 
I can see where this could have a better visual presentation, but I'm
not sure at this point that this is where I'm headed.

I actually thought a lot about labeling and haven't come up with an
optimum approach yet.  There is are several types of information that I
might want to see in the labels, but I can't display it all at once. 
I'm kind of thinking of a global option that would change all the
labels to this or that kind of information.

The next big step for the NetModel tool will be to add the idea of
workloads so that several concurrent things can be happening and
response times and utilizations can be calculated using closed queueing
calculations.  I'm still thinking about how to graphically represent
workloads, as this is still an analytical model, not a simulation.

--- Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> On Friday 06 December 2002 12:28 pm, David Faught wrote:
> > Netmodel is a simple modeling tool for data networks.  See the
> > SqueakMap descriptions for more.
> 
> Nice. I always like to see Connectors-based projects.
> Some Connectors-related tips that you may already know, but others
> may not:
> 
> You can make labels appear automatically on your NetCircuits by going
> 
> to their flap buttons, getting the context menu and doing:
> 
> button/change action selector        startWiringLabeled:
> button/change argument             '1 gb LAN'
> 
> (or you could define startWiringLabeled as:
> 	self startWiringLabeled: self externalName
> 
> Your drawings might look better if your NetCircuits would connect to 
> the nearest point to the center, rather than the nearest attachment 
> point. This can be done on either end:
> 
> (directly) context menu at each end of NetCircuit, choose
> 

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