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Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by TuringTest »

jessedhillon wrote: post #61
criley2 wrote: post #45

I used to use Draw.io a lot more than I do now, and it is a wonderful tool, the only reason I use it less now is because I've been using: PlantUML ( http://plantuml.com/ ) with demo at ( http://planttext.com ). Creating most diagrams through a simple markup language that can be version controlled and rendered on demand has been really nice for me, and sometimes I would spent SO MUCH TIME in draw.io making sure my arr…

Is there any way to change the rendering style? Or are you stuck with red and yellow?

There's a styling engine[1], but appartently it's still in beta[2]

[1] http://plantuml.com/en/skinparam

[2] http://plantuml.com/es/style-evolution

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by high_derivative »

jackdh wrote: post #3

Huge fan of Draw.io, with Visio still missing Mac support it's been great for cross machine architecture design.

Exactly how I got into it. At university, realized that despite buying some office pack with a laptop, there was no visio contained. Began with draw.io and never looked back.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by davidjgraph »

freeman478 wrote: post #73

It is a great tool ! Only issue with it is that the source code (of the front-end) is quite hairy to understand and modify. I tried to add support for Github Enterprise ( https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/473 ) and was quite lost.

It's a reasonable critism. The base of the stack is a proper dev library. The top part evolved from an example to that library and didn't get the same refactoring love to make it accessible to other devs.

Main problem from our end on your issue is we don't have access to a Github enterprise instance to test anything.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by bdamm »

Gravityloss wrote: post #64

I've tried drawing diagrams with these tools and it seems so much harder for quick drafting than just using pen and paper and also a lot of work to get anything even remotely good looking (like aligning things or making boxes of the same size, ie performing mass operations). I would like to use a tool where I first describe the relations in text/code and the layouting and formatting is done separately, and formatting…

You may like websequencediagrams.com

The site is only for sequence diagrams “swim lanes” but at that task I’ve found nothing better. I love describing the relationships textually and then selecting the best style for the job.

Many tools fail at basic style annotation so I can abstract the style. Even that would be an improvement for drawing diagrams.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by nkrisc »

kelseyr wrote: post #41

I really like that you can export as PNGs and embed the diagram information inside. Being able send around PNGs that everyone can view, but can still be edited with draw.io makes sharing and updating much simpler.

This is really interesting, is this (or similar to) steganography? Poked around the repo but haven't yet found where this is implemented (on either end).

From a user perspective that sounds like a super useful feature, though perhaps unexpected unless you were directly informed of it.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by dlhavema »

Gravityloss wrote: post #64

I've tried drawing diagrams with these tools and it seems so much harder for quick drafting than just using pen and paper and also a lot of work to get anything even remotely good looking (like aligning things or making boxes of the same size, ie performing mass operations). I would like to use a tool where I first describe the relations in text/code and the layouting and formatting is done separately, and formatting…

I primarilly use Gliffy cause it is built into confluence, but whenever it is not available, I go right to draw.io. Its a pretty cool tool for this.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by gorn »

Gravityloss wrote: post #64

I've tried drawing diagrams with these tools and it seems so much harder for quick drafting than just using pen and paper and also a lot of work to get anything even remotely good looking (like aligning things or making boxes of the same size, ie performing mass operations). I would like to use a tool where I first describe the relations in text/code and the layouting and formatting is done separately, and formatting…

You can try mermaid https://mermaidjs.github.io/

This was the only tool I could find that would work with version control.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by harrygeez »

Gravityloss wrote: post #64

I've tried drawing diagrams with these tools and it seems so much harder for quick drafting than just using pen and paper and also a lot of work to get anything even remotely good looking (like aligning things or making boxes of the same size, ie performing mass operations). I would like to use a tool where I first describe the relations in text/code and the layouting and formatting is done separately, and formatting…

it's very nice if you have to, e.g. for university courses.

draw.io is a much nicer than let's say, Visual Paradigm

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