Magnets on shapes (spots where lines connect to) are able to be changed quickly to any number of different options-and the selection of these is quick and easy.
When dragging and dropping items around, there are snap points, and guides appearing to help line things up into the right spot, making it easy to give nice vertically and horizontally aligned items. There is nice support for grouping items. One can easily select items of the same type using the inspect tool. I can leave the background there and move around the processes easily. The nice part of this is that the background layer doesn’t get picked up by default when selecting items. Then the canvases can be used to work on top of the layer. For doing processes it has swim lines set up. I have setup a layer that is the master background. Layers are bits that you can reuse nicely across pages. My mental picture is that a canvas is like a printed page. The pro version provides canvasing, and layering support. A bunch of the bits that I like are listed below (in no particular order).
A nice touch is that OmniGraffle supports Visio VXD documents. It has really done a good job of working mac like and has a very good interface. So when picking up the need to do diagramming, I took a dig around at the options on Mac, and ended up with OmniGraffle.
#Visio for mac omnigraffle how to
Unlike Cedric I am a very happy switcher, and am working out how to get things working the way I want them to. I have drunk the koolaid, and do almost all my work on my shiny OSX laptop. Visio is owned by Microsoft, and is a Windows only solution. Visio has templates and tools for doing all the standard IT diagrams that an architect needs. In Windows land, the tool of choice for doing these diagrams is Visio. A picture or diagram(often worth a thousand words), can help communicate concepts and ideas well. When architecting a solution for a client, diagrams provide a good way of communication. If you don’t have a Mac, then buy one, and use OmniGraffle. If you don’t know, try it out and then you will.
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