database modeling tools (again)

[Christopher Chisholm]

Hey Everyone,

Based on previous suggestions I've been using Database Designer 4 from 
fabForce.  It works alright but has some annoyances. 

The worst annoyance is an issue when entering new columns into a table.  
It's kind of hard to describe, but basically it forces you to stay on 
the field even when you try to click off of it, or won't let you focus 
on another column.  Anyone that's used it probably know what I'm talking 
about.

The other big problem I have is that rather than drawing key constraint 
lines between the elements in the tables involved, it simply draws lines 
between the tables.  That gets somewhat confusing on large databases 
because you can't immediately see what elements are linked to what. 

Does anyone know of any other free modeling tools that might address 
these issues?  I could live without the lines going from element to 
element, as it seems most programs don't have this support (although i 
can't understand why).  I suppose I could do it the old-fashioned way, 
but now that I've got a taste for automatic script exporting I'm not 
sure if I can look back!

thanks,

-chris