Dia, Free, Linux/Mac/Windowsĭormant open-source project. Graph and flowchart only (?), free and multiplatform. Quite expensive… SmartDraw, Subscription $9.95/month, Mac/Windows/Cloudįlowchart marker don’t know if it’s useful for other, more complicated graphs and diagrams. Professional industry grade diagram software. Dedicated diagram / flow chart software Microsoft Visio, $299 or $18 subscription, Mac/Windows Xfig, Opensource/Free, Linux/Mac/Windowsĭormant development, quite ugly interface (IMO). Recommended by many people, UI looks pretty clean and productive, sadly Mac/iOS only. Subjectively UI looks much cleaner than other open source graphics software. Lots of people recommended it, worth having a look! Inkscape, Opensource/Free, Linux/Mac/Windows No subscription alternative to Illustrator. At the same time quite pricey subscription model and could be an overkill for simple diagrams? Affinity Designer, $49.99, Mac/Windows Vector graphics software Adobe Illustrator, Subscription $19.99/month, Mac/Windowsįor many years standard / go-to for vector graphics. maybe something interactive for web/blog (shadertoy, D3, Mathbox).Some favorite environment for authoring documents (whether LaTeX, mathcha or just Powerpoint or Google Docs),.Favorite scientific environment for data exploration and plotting (Python+Matplotlib, Mathematica, Matlab),.Dedicated vector graphics program (I’ll give a try to Inkscape and Photoshop vector graphics),.But as a rule of thumb, probably it’s useful to have each of: Note that there are no real “conclusions”, almost everyone used something else! Probably almost anything on the list will work. Please comment on this post if I got anything wrong and/or I omitted something. To not have it lost and hoping that someone else will find it useful, writing down answers in a few categories with some comments. I got 26 replies, thanks everyone who contributed! I usually use first, but far from satisfied…For proc tried SVG,JS,Graphviz,even Mathematica, but results are either ugly or *lots* of work…” “What is industry/academic standard for diagrams in tech writing? PowerPoint/GoogleDocs diagrams? Dedicated tool like Visio/Dia? Procedural? Few days ago, I asked a question on twitter:
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