All you have to do is just visit the website and start drawing the diagrams. Similar to the Draw.io Program, it doesn’t have a login page which means you don’t have to fill lengthy forms to get started. It features a drag and drop option which will help you to draw diagrams in an easy way. The interface is quite simple, clean and easy to use. but never felt the need to use this suit.Lucid Chart is a web-based program which will make the diagramming an easy task. If I need a proper diagram, I export to vector graphics and rearrange the whole thing to my heart's content in FreeHand.īut will take a look at Open Office's Draw. I never auto snap these days and I only re-arrange my diagrams to become readable. But I do spend a lot of time on my diagrams, gaining new ideas, trying new approaches, studying other possibilities, so I always found my time isn't really that much affected by Visio, sometimes infuriating, snapping and aligning features. I confess I know very little of the "improvements" of more recent versions, but that one version I always considered a cornerstone of Visio development in which the right amount of tools were achieved (for my own specific use of course) and anything else would just be unnecessary fluff to me. So much in fact that I never got beyond Visio 2000 Enterprise Edition (which I got from my MSDN subscription back then). I've always used Visio, although I resume my diagrams to mostly DMDs and ERs, which I can't live without, with just an occasional DFD when I'm having trouble with my code.įor that effect I always found Visio to be an ideal tool to me. I cannot figure out why Draw received such bad reviews from people. But OpenOffice Draw with more UML and symbol support would be very close to Visio.Īnyone used these two before? I'd like to hear what some of you have to say about these two products.
Now to be fair Visio has far more symbols and UML support which is characteristic of a MS product. I find I have to fight too many automatic 'features' in Visio just to get my diagrams to look right. The same would have taken 2 hours in Visio. I created an entire static structure for my app in about an hour. The grid spacing is actually reasonable as opposed to MS where at times you think there is a grid but often you are just not sure b/c the snap is terrible. The connectors are far smarter than the ones in Visio and it's much easier to line items up. So I open it up 's a piece of cake to use. It really got hammered by several people. Most of them faired well except for Draw. Before downloading OpenOffice I read some reviews of the various components.
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