I hadn't, but just did... Doesn't look too bad, but I really need
bi-directional import and export of visio formats. That and I never
really use them for actual flow charts as most software seems to presume
I want to do.
I end up doing some very detailed network diagrams for customers and
employers, where I've found nothing really comes close. All the network
vendors at very least dump out visio objects of their devices to work
with, and anything else is variable. Some do omnigraffle, which is
great if you (over)paid for a mac. I even do stuff like construction
architectural layouts in visio when working on my house. I built a
full-scale representation of my house I use to model my reconstruction
efforts in. Nothing else seems to offer the same flexibility as visio.
I did/do occasionally use lucidchart, it's about the most compatible
I've found, but still does stupid things like not import layers
properly, of which I've had a bug/feature request (feature: make it
actually work right) for 2 years now. I use a lot of layers in my visios...
Even libreoffice draw somewhat works with visios, but they're always
horribly broken rendering things for me when I try. I've never really
considered even trying to create one in it, but in a pinch I can at
least somewhat look at them without firing up my windoze vm.
For pure networking, yEd was pretty cool, and someone went through and
at least converted most of the popular cisco stencils for it when last
tried in 2014 or so. Some of the cisco guys I knew were working with it
internally, so we tried using it at one of my last fte gigs years ago.
It was basic, good enough, but in no means as detailed as visio. We all
just sorta went back to using visio eventually.
If only microsoft hadn't acquired them, it seems to be only going down
hill since visio 2007, much as microsoft has.
-mb
On 10/18/2016 10:48 AM, Brian Cluff wrote:
> On 10/18/2016 10:08 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
>> I'm still down to only visio I simply haven't found a suitable
>> replacement for yet.
>
> Have you looked at Calligra Flow? I believe it even loads (but not
> saves) Visio files these days. I'm sure it's not as feature rich as
> Visio, but it might do enough to satisfy your needs.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
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