[Sigia-l] 3-D workflows

[Lord, Ralph]

I'm looking for info on whether Visio or another Windows app (sorry, no Macs
here) will let me create 3-D workflows. What we have is lots of
interconnected flows.  The invidual flows are on separate pages and need to
stay that way for simplicity. However, when we try to put them together to
illustrate the big picture, it gets messy. Either we have one giant
confusing diagram (and no plotter to make it more bigger), or we have
several documents with "contact points" labeled that cause confusion. (What
is circle "C" on page 3? Oh, that's where the output goes back into page 6.
Where? Here, down in the middle of the page, see the other circle "C"?)

  If I could stack the flows up (like a 3-level chessboard) and show the
contact points as lines between planes, it might be clearer how the
individual flows are related.  Of course, I'd like the planes in the big
picture view to be linked to the individual flow docs for easy editing and
updating.  Anyone know of such a thing?

Thanks,
Ralph Lord
CDC Bioterror Project