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Software for drawing napkin-style architecture diagrams?
You might want to try Excalidraw.com, which is free & open-source (MIT) collaborative whiteboard app that lets you make hand-drawn like diagrams and easily export them to PNG, SVG, or as a link ...
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I need a software that will help me to create an diagram of a structure of my application
Try LucidChart Network Diagram Software, I think this will do it for your case.
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Simple javascript library for drawing own component diagram/circuit/graph (with input output nodes) and their connections
if someone is interedsted, i have finally found and chose mxGraph https://github.com/jgraph/mxgraph.
it is:
pros well documented
pros free license
pros good customized
library for my purposes
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Which application to draw flowcharts like this?
Look at diagrams.net (formerly draw.io). It is gratis (free of cost). I use it intensively as a software engineer to architect and design different workflows.
There is also a desktop app for the same ...
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Gantt diagram generator from textual representation
I don't see any reason why https://github.com/mermaidjs/mermaid.cli wouldn't work in your case. MIT licensed, it should allow you to save this into gantt.txt
gantt
title A Gantt Diagram
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Architecture diagram tool with zoom-in for detail
Use http://draw.io/ with containers as explained here.
There are two options:
simply use the shape named "container"
select a shape, select the "Style" tab, scroll down in the &...
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Tool to generate keyboard layout diagram
You can use the windows built in tools "On Screen Keyboard" and the "Snipping Tool" to get an image of the current keyboard layout:
Then the one with the AltGr button pressed:
And use just about any ...
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Diagramming tool with good connector auto-arrangement when I drag connected boxes
You can check https://draw.io It offer a lot of flexibility and it is quite "intelligent". Beside web version there is standalone one via menu Help->Get Desktop... here.
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DSL to describe (and maybe render) tech trees?
Visio with a UML Class Project
The Square-Cube Law is inherently right that you need a UML Class Project in a flowchart program but since the OP seems unconvinced with that answer, here is an example ...
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DSL to describe (and maybe render) tech trees?
Recommend @The Squar-Cube Law approach - flow charts, but from technological tree point of view - technologies are not just chain one after another, how it is done in many games very primitive ...
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Can anyone identify the software used to generate these illustrations?
My favourite diagramming app is yEd. Check out the gallery to see if you like what it produces.
How about this, for example:
or this
or
There's even a subway train map
As an alternative to ...
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Software for drawing network diagrams
I've used the yEd Graph Editor from yWorks to create similar diagrams. It's a free desktop application and runs on Windows, Unix/Linux, and Mac OS X. It's a WYSIWYG application, so, you can easily ...
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Open-source software for creating a process flow diagram
At a previous job, I did a lot of PFDs with mass balance. We simply used Excel for the calcs and it's inbuilt drawing tools for the diagrams we displayed lots of numbers in the diagrams and went ...
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Software for drawing napkin-style architecture diagrams?
From the style of the drawing, it looks as though the software whose output you have seen might perhaps be Balsamiq?
(Even if the output is not actually from Balsamiq itself, it might be a suitable ...
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Windows software to make knowledge network graph?
With a little learning you can do this with GraphViz which is:
Free, Gratis & Open Source
Available for Windows, Linux & Mac
Can produce images in a long list of formats
Automatically re-lays ...
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Architecture diagram tool with zoom-in for detail
I think this sample, implemented in GoJS, demonstrates something similar to what you are looking for: https://gojs.net/latest/samples/regrouping.html.
Note the slider that the user can adjust to ...
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Is there something like websequencediagrams.com for activity diagrams?
Plantuml is an UML drawing tool (based on an input file). From the website:
PlantUML is a component that allows to quickly write :
Sequence diagram
Usecase diagram
Class diagram
Activity diagram (...
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A tool to generate diagrams of python3 code
There are several such tools, one of the most commonly used being the combination of Doxygen with Graphviz.
Doxygen will analyse your code to create documentation for code written in any of:
C++,
C, ...
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Good alternative to this diagram tool https://github.com/francoislaberge/diagrams?
You simply can't beat MSC generator. It is cross-platform, full featured and well supported (Zoltan generally replies very quickly to emails requesting support or new features).
It takes its input ...
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Tool to generate a network diagram of docker containers in cluster
Some time ago I stumbled across a very same task, and I couldn't find just right tool, so I wrote my own: https://github.com/s0rg/decompose
I hope that helps.
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Software or web-app to draw diagrams that appear hand-drawn
Another tool, that has a very close look and feel to what you've shown, is called Excalidraw (https://excalidraw.com/).
This is a web tool, that claims to only store it's data in your browser.
I do ...
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Diagramming Software
Syncfusion Diagram have support to create and arrange data in the Organizational Chart structure. Please find the sample and screenshot as below.
Sample link: https://stackblitz.com/edit/5myckm-...
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Diagramming Software
You can use OrgChart JS provided by BALKANGraph, it support all features from your requirement
OrgChart JS lets developers to create simple, flexible and highly customizable organization chart for ...
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Software for drawing napkin-style architecture diagrams?
I used Zwibbler in the past in order to do exactly that.
The following is an example of basic diagram I've drawn with this tool:
However, since they shut down their free offer, I mainly used https://...
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Software for drawing napkin-style architecture diagrams?
yEd Graph Editor can be pretty quick when you get used to it.
The speed comes from the automatic arrangements (optional) of objects and custom/non-custom shapes and clip-artish objects.
It is ...
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Software for drawing network diagrams
Networkmaps (https://www.networkmaps.org) lets you create diagrams in 3D. It is an opensource web based diagraming tool.
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Software for drawing network diagrams
I direct my students with similar needs to https://www.draw.io
Less complex that what your drawing shows, but only on the "art" side. Can still do the lines, computers, switches, routers, etc. Can ...
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Software for drawing network diagrams
10-Strike Network Diagram. This program is for Windows. In addition to drawing, it can scan your actual network with managed switches and display device connections.
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