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I used to be a visio user and frequently use Visio for database development project.

Now I'd like to try Conceptdraw 'cos it looks attractive for great looking result (I know it makes no sense for a database table drawing except show it for my boss on presentation)

I was totaly stucked after two hard days, I open ERD/DB from template gallery, and no further progress has been made since that:

1/ I drag an "Entity" into my workspace, but it looks like that there is no way to define necessary information such as "field" "type" "Primary Key" attributes, I have to enter *all* by TEXT??

2/ When I try to connect it into an database via ODBC, neither Access nor MySQL go success, Conceptdraw tells "...Low conformance level for support relations..." what the hell?!

any advise would be appreciated

Mic
I'm using the trial version right now to see if I can use this program as a replacement for Platinum ErWin. I am having a hard time setting primary keys etc.

Is there a tutorial on creating useful ERD's anywhere?
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