ERD Symbols and Meanings

Entity Relationship Diagram Symbols and Meaning - crow's foot notation

Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) is a popular software engineering tool for database modeling and illustration the logical structure of databases, which uses one of two notations - Chen's or Crow’s Foot. Crow's foot notation is effective when used in software engineering, information engineering, structured systems analysis and design. Each of these notations applies its own set of ERD symbols. Crow's foot diagrams use boxes to represent entities and lines between these boxes to show relationships. Varied shapes at the ends of lines depict the cardinality of a given relationship. Chen's ERD notation is more detailed way to represent entities and relationships. ConceptDraw PRO application enhanced with all-inclusive Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) solution allows design professional ER diagrams with Chen's or Crow’s Foot notation on your choice. It contains the full set of ready-to-use standardized ERD symbols and meanings helpful for quickly drawing, collection of predesigned ERD samples, examples and templates. ConceptDraw Pro is a great alternative to Visio for Mac users as it offers more features and can easily handle the most demanding professional needs.

How to Build an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

Design elements - Callout blocks

The vector stencils library "Callout blocks" contains 31 callouts, speech balloons and brackets for creating marketing infograms.
"In publishing, a call-out or callout is a short string of text connected by a line, arrow, or similar graphic to a feature of an illustration or technical drawing, and giving information about that feature. The term is also used to describe a short piece of text set in larger type than the rest of the page and intended to attract attention.
A similar device in word processing is a special text box with or without a small "tail" that can be pointed to different locations on a document." [Callout. Wikipedia]
The shapes example "Design elements - Callout blocks" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Marketing Infographics solition from the area "Business Infographics" in ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Callouts, speech balloons and brackets

Used Solutions

Business Infographics >

Marketing Infographics

Design elements - Financial callouts

The vector stencils library "Financial callouts" contains 30 callout shapes.
"In publishing, a call-out or callout is a short string of text connected by a line, arrow, or similar graphic to a feature of an illustration or technical drawing, and giving information about that feature. The term is also used to describe a short piece of text set in larger type than the rest of the page and intended to attract attention.
A similar device in word processing is a special text box with or without a small "tail" that can be pointed to different locations on a document." [Callout. Wikipedia]
Use it to design your financial infographics.

Infographic elements

Used Solutions

Business Infographics >

Financial Infographics

Design elements - Education callouts

The vector stencils library "Education callouts" contains 24 shapes of callouts, speech balloons, arrows, braces and brackets.
Use it to design your education infograms.
"Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comic strips and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic. There is often a formal distinction between the balloon that indicates thoughts and the one that indicates words spoken aloud: the balloon that conveys subjective thoughts is often referred to as a thought bubble." [Speech balloon. Wikipedia]
The shapes example "Design elements - Education callouts" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Education Infographics solition from the area "Business Infographics" in ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Callouts, speech balloons, arrows, braces, brackets

Used Solutions

Business Infographics >

Education Infographics

Social Media Marketing Infographic

How to create Social Media Marketing Infographic? It’s very easy! All that you need is a powerful marketing infographics software. Never before creation of Social Media Marketing Infographic wasn’t so easy as now with tools of Marketing Infographics Solution from the Business Infographics Area for ConceptDraw Solution Park.

People - Vector stencils library

The vector stencils library "People" contains 49 people clipart images and figures you can use in your presentations, illustrations and infographics.
"Clip art, in the graphic arts, refers to pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively in both personal and commercial projects, ranging from home-printed greeting cards to commercial candles. Clip art comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in an electronic form. Since its inception, clip art has evolved to include a wide variety of content, file formats, illustration styles, and licensing restrictions. Clip art is generally composed exclusively of illustrations (created by hand or by computer software), and does not include stock photography." [Clip art. Wikipedia]
The clip art example "People - Vector stencils library" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the People solution from the Illustration area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
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Athletic guy