Which tool do you use for making software engineering diagrams?

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by AshishGupta93 • 9 years ago

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I've tried few options like draw.io, creately, gliffy, etc. I want to know which tool your engineering team is using and how is it better than others?

cholantesh• 9 years ago

Pen and paper/whiteboard, Moqups, and Visio.

RBerenguel• 9 years ago

For my own use, I use pen and paper (for program design/brainstorming) and Inkscape if I need to have a diagram in a document (occasionally I use emacs' artist mode and ditaa for fun, too). At work, we use (org-wide) LucidCharts, which is decent enough at what it does (online diagramming tool with good collaboration abilities, can be embedded easily)

AshishGupta932• 9 years ago

I also use pen and paper a lot. Found Pencil (https://github.com/evolus/pencil) which is similar to Inkscape (UI/UX is little better).

Will check LucidCharts for teams.

AshishGupta932• 9 years ago

Here are few tools I found -

Gliffy - gliffy.com

Draw.io - draw.io

Creately - creately.com

RealtimeBoard - realtimeboard.com

LucidChart - lucidchart.com

Bubbl - bubbl.us

Textografo - textografo.com

Smartdraw - smartdraw.com

Edrawsoft - edrawsoft.com

Microsoft Visio

I've not used all of them. Looking for suggestions (preferably free tool).

br1n0• 9 years ago

you can use dia on linux, or graphviz (if you configure), here the gallery http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery.php

Which tool do you use for making software engineering diagrams?

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