Making the Connection Drawing network connections is a necessary part of a diagramming package. Although it is easy enough to draw connecting lines between components with ClickNet, it lacks NetViz's range of helpful controls. Where NetViz offers a palette of different network connections that are visually different, ClickNet treats them all the same. Only by viewing the connection description, or manually changing the line color or thickness can you differentiate them. It does, however, automatically reroute cable connections as you move components around, like NetViz.
Connections do show up in an item's database entry.
This is helpful, but NetGuru takes the concept further by letting you double-click on the connection to bring up the item at the other end of that connection, which lets you follow the cable through the network. ClickNet supports complex network designs well. We were able to build a diagram that started with a world view and drill down to a single office to detail the components. This keeps the complexity of each layer manageable. Navigating through a large network is simplified by a set of arrows that let you go either up or down, or alternately displays a list of all levels in a hierarchical format so that a single click takes you directly to any level.