I think that one very useful feature is snapping to a grid so things look tidy. And being able to group and ungroup things to form different units. I will look at LibreOffice again. I have not used the drawing part in a very long time. On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 1:28 PM Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
So, if you have used any such tools (especially on Linux), what are your experiences? And I expecting too much? I have looked at programs like dia. It seems rather basic. But that might just be my knowledge of what it can do. I have also used programs that let you specify the diagram in a text file and it lays out the diagram. That has been fine for simple diagrams. But when the diagrams reach any realistic complexity, the layout is often something that one must struggle with.
All pointers are welcome. I have looked at various discussions of this but they are typically so superficial that they provide no real information. I am willing to investigate alternatives.
For the last many years, in my company, we have managed fairly well with LibreOffice drawings. Typically network diagrams, state machines, flow charts maybe, process documentation. Not very demanding or complex I would say, but I thought it was worth mentiong.
Before that, there was a tool, Visi-something, that was eventually acquired by Microsoft. I remember a few people swearing by it.
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