Diagramming Tool

[alexd]

Anyone know of any decent diagramming tools other than Visio?

Doing some heavy Diagrams, using hyperlinks and converting to html, but Visio Professional struggles with HTML conversion.

Need to get some competent alternatives. CAD programs a possibiltiy but needs to be easily maintainable.

Cheers.

Alex

 

[AtW]

well, i'd be interested to know anything apart from Visio myself, as a quick work around you might want to save diagram as GIF or PNG to have exact representation and then link this image to simple HTML file.

 

[reynolds]

re: owen hargreaves

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www.smartdraw.com

 

[AtW]

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www.smartdraw.com/enterprise/visio.htm

"1. SmartDraw is better for average business users
Although Visio is a powerful product, it is best suited to technical experts."

 

[alexd]

smartdraw

smartdraw

Thanks for the tip, reynolds.

I've managed to dig up a few other possibilities:

www.micrografx.com/ - used by Barnard Castle
www.netfusion.co.za/Manag...ss_98.html
www.qpronline.com/

As usual with these things, most of the website documentation is sales spiel (better ROI! blah blah blah) so it looks like I'm going to have to test them all out.

Reynolds - Have you used Smartdraw?

 

[reynolds]

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yeh i've used smartdraw - its brilliant - a joy to use. very smooth, compact and 1000's of templates to download and multiple conversions (ie. gif, jpg, pdf etc)