Modeling best practices

It is always a good practice to organize your diagrams in a way that makes them attractive to readers. Aligned elements on a diagram look better than misaligned ones, elements with similar spaces between them look better than elements with random spacing, and elements of the same size look better than elements of random sizes. So, do your best to have your diagrams as organized as possible because the difference this practice makes it worth the effort.

In this section, we will be giving some guidelines that we had set for us when creating diagrams. You can follow these guidelines as they are, or you may add to them from your own experience as well. These are not part of any standard but are based on our personal experience in modeling, so nothing is written in stone. You may agree or disagree with us on some, we may learn something new tomorrow that results in changing some of these guidelines, or you may have a different experience background than ours,...