vector-based drawing program, like CorelDraw® or Adobe Illustrator® from the proprietary software world, and Sketch or Karbon14 from the free software world.
NetDraw is a program for drawing networks. It uses (or will use) several different algorithms for laying out nodes in 2-dimensional space (3D will come later). Netdraw reads UCINET system files, UCINET DL text files, and Pajek text files (.net, .clu and .