I use MS Visio for most of my design/architecting work when I need to be able to save the diagram somewhere and edit it later. I'm not the biggest fan of Visio, but it gets the job done (and it's free at work).I was wondering if there were any good alternatives to the fairly expensive Visio software, maybe something even better, that you guys have used in the past and were comfortable with. I'd certainly like to have that program in my toolbox!
What software can be used to create architecture diagrams?
design;architecture;visio
I use yEd. It's freely available for all major platforms and has neat tools for automatic diagram layouts.a free of charge general-purpose diagramming program with a multi-document interface.It is a cross-platform application written in Java that runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and other platforms that support the JVM.yEd can be used to draw many different types of diagrams, including flowcharts, network diagrams, UML diagrams, BPMN diagrams, mind maps, organization charts, and Entity Relationship diagrams. yEd also allows the use of custom vector and raster graphics as diagram elements.yEd loads and saves diagrams from/to GraphML, an XML-based format. The application can print diagrams including very large diagrams that span multiple pages...