Good diagrams facilitate understanding. That’s their primary purpose. Information about a system can be conveyed in many ways, but the goal of a diagram is to help others understand a system. In order to facilitate this understanding, ilographs now support guided walkthroughs.

This is part 5 of a series of posts on the ilograph diagramming language (IDL). In part 3, we looked at the ilograph resource tree. The resource tree defines your organization’s resources, and these resources are then used in perspectives. In this post, we’ll explore the intermediate topic of resource inheritance.