Auto layout feature, show all tables by default about azimutt HOT 1 OPEN

Hi @alexkreidler

Thanks for your feedback!
Azimutt was thought first for huge projects with a lot of tables (I'm working with a database with 700+ tables ^^). That's why it has this particular behavior (at the opposite of others).
But you're right, for small projects it's a bit awkward...

There is already an auto-layout feature (the dashed cube on the bottom right toolbar) using the dagre algorithm (the one powering mermaid graphs), but it's not working so well so I didn't promote it a lot.
Maybe a force layout would do better but I'm not so sure because there is often a lot of relations and especially when most tables have a created_by column (or similar) it makes just an ugly big ball ^^
I've seen other algorithms, simple ones like an alphabetical grid or more complex ones with topological sort or other but I'm not really convinced they perform so much better.
Do you have an example of tool/algorithm that do this well?

At least, if there is few tables (let's say less than 15), I can add a "Show all" button on the empty card with an auto-layout.
What do you think?

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