Dia
Dia is a program to draw structured diagrams.
Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Windows released under the GPL license.
Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 
Microsoft Office Visio, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
Microsoft Office Visio, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.Comments and Reviews
Dia has somewhat stagnated in recent years. For a long time it was the only real open source option other than turning to Inkscape and doing everything from scratch. These days I'd recommend you try Pencil instead because it has a much nicer UI and arguably better features.
ka
Like that software. It's a bit unhandy sometimes but in the end maybe the best libre software there is for that purpose.
ev
I use it and like it but find the interface to be clunky. For any serious diagramming I'd still opt to use Visio (unfortunately).
va
If it had an import filter for visio files it would be perfect.
Categories
Development • Office & ProductivityPlatform details
Mac: Requires XQuartz to run
Windows: Dia 0.97 runs on Windows 2000. Dia 0.94 runs on Windows NT, Windows 98 and Windows ME (requires GTK+ runtime environment 2.6)
Other tags
- diagramming
- diagram-editor
- UML
- xfce
- chart
I successfully made some diagrams with Dia but, as another user said, its interface is really clunky. Now I'm trying yED.
Negative comment • more than a year ago