If you signup for Lucidchart and then tie it into your Google Drive account, you can open Visio files directly from Google Drive using Lucidchart. First they are integrated with Google Drive. You, not the software, get to choose the perfect publishing option. Skip restrictive Visio formats by sharing your document in more accessible ways: collaborate in real time, publish to a web page or embedded view, or export to a PDF or image. They recently released a Visio stencil import feature and continue to expand their range of compatible formats. Lucidchart is the only web application that gives you the flexibility to save all of your Visio stencils. Don't worry about getting stuck - you can also support export from Lucidchart to Visio (as well as PNG, PDF, and JPEG). Lucidchart allows you to open, edit, and save the most popular Visio file types within your favorite browser - eliminating over-priced software to install, update, or maintain. Lucidchart is the obvious winner for 3 primary reasons: If you have cisco email, check cisco wiki for the special prising. Also their CISCO items look very professional. I was looking for how to make vehicular networking diagram and found it with Conceptdraw. Further, the movement and management of the shapes so far is impressive. I was unable to do that successfully in other competing products, though they advertise this ability. So far, I've been able to import some of the more current visio files into ConceptDraw. It is very solid and has the best ability of handling the new Visio VSDX format which noby has right now except SmartDraw which is equally over-priced for what it does. Trust me here! )ĬonceptDraw Pro is the first and only one I really have faith will go somewhere in the future in this business and I would strongly suggest you all give it a try and beat it up somewhat and have fun. Visio used to be good, but for the money and the aggravation of trying to mix with MS Office 2010 (causes all kinds of problems unless you update everything.

Tried the demo as I did many other as I dislike Visio, it's cost and the new 'look' which reminds me of a dead person with a marble complexion. I can even interchange files between a PC and Mac! This has turned out to be very productive!

Ever since I moved over to a Macintosh, I was missing a strong tool for creating visual workflows for the business processes I develop. I chose ConceptDraw PRO because of the easy interchangeability with Microsoft Visio files.

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