As a MacBook user I little upset when I need to create a Visio diagram due to there is not Visio for Mac. What do you do? Normally I need to power on a Windows VM. Also some official and unofficial stencils templates and stuff were created for Visio. Finally many master diagrams were created for Visio.
Well, not anymore for me.
I found a very amazing tool called draw.io. I have used this tool in the past using the online framework, but I discovered a best way to create diagrams visio-like even using exactly the same icons and stencils.
Here’s one I made yesterday as VMC on AWS template:
Here the draw.io source file for this diagram. My plan is share all my draw.io files on my public github.com coming soon. Meanwhile you can download the .drawio from here.
The amazing thing is draw.io support many formats even VSSX files, the format for Visio stencils templates. So what ever vssx file could be imported.
First I needed to import stencils from this places (just using the Import from File menu option):
- Visio Stencils for the VMware Validated Designs version 4.3
- Visio Stencils for VMware, Hyper-V and Veeam
- NSX Stencils
Also the web online tool, draw.io has announced its desktop clients, which we can download directly from here:
- Windows (.exe) DOWNLOAD
- macOS (.dmg) DOWNLOAD
- Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) DOWNLOAD
- Linux (AppImage) DOWNLOAD
Brilliant work guys. Did I tell you it's free? Visio good bye
Regards