Free drawing software recommended - draw io

One 、 background

A long time ago in windows System on use visio It's great to draw .
Since using mac After that, I didn't find a special drawing software .
I've tried before processon , Pretty good , You can draw online , But there are quantitative limits , After more than a few, you can only pay .

Moreover, after joining Alibaba, the company does not allow external online drawing 、 Notes and other tools , It's hard to do .
Then try visual-paradigm.com I think it works very well , Unfortunately, it's also a charge .

Used in the back draw.io Find out how fragrant ！！ But the efficiency of drawing sequence diagram is not high .

Now I prefer to use the sequence diagram PlantUML（ More efficient drawing ）, other UML graphics Or the architecture diagram is more inclined to use draw.io.

Two 、 Use

All kinds of things UML How to draw a picture can refer to https://online.visual-paradigm.com/cn/diagrams/tutorials/ A tutorial for , excellent .

This is mainly about draw.io The simplest use and beautification techniques .

You can download the offline version here
https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases

The official website mapping portal is here ：
https://app.diagrams.net/

When creating, you can select some templates ：

Drawing interface ：

If you want to make the drawing more beautiful , You can choose... On the right 【Sketch】

Select a drawing , Then check it out. 【sketch】 after , choice 【Style】 One of the following colors , There will be an effect similar to the following figure ：

In this way, the final drawing will be more beautiful ：

If a single choice is troublesome , Can be in the whole graph 【Style】 Check... In the tab 【sktch】 +【Rounded】 You can also switch to fillet and the above effect ：

It's true that every figure has 【sketch】 effect ： You can also set whether to shadow on the interface , Set the style and thickness of the arrow , Set the size of the text, etc , Very powerful .

3、 ... and 、 summary

draw.io The power of is self-evident , You can try it offline for free. It's very nice , Praise such easy-to-use software .