Drawing flowcharts, mind maps, network diagrams, floor plans, UML diagrams

MyDraw

MyDraw

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MyDraw is an easy, affordable yet powerful software for PC that can help you create a vast amount of diagrams including flowcharts, organizational charts, mind maps, network diagrams, floor plans, family tree diagrams, UML diagrams, and many more. Whether you need a simple vector drawing tool or a full-featured Microsoft Visio ™ alternative, this software is the perfect fit that will not break the bank.

MyDraw for Windows is a powerful diagram designer, providing all the functionality needed for creating professional flowcharts, organizational charts, network diagrams, floor plans, mind maps, workflows, UML diagrams, electrical diagrams, and a lot more! Simple to work with, yet extremely powerful. The tool has been designed to provide powerful diagramming software that is easy to use and not overwhelming. With a completely customizable user interface and neatly organized layout users can get started with MyDraw in just seconds.

Advanced formatting features. With the tool, any flowchart, organizational chart, mind map, network diagram, floor plan, workflow, UML diagram, an electrical diagram can be styled to look absolutely amazing. MyDraw for PC offers a vast number of formatting features including multiple fill styles, Photoshop-like effects, control over transparency on every aspect of the shapes, and a lot more. This program comes with a collection of ready to use diagram templates. The program offers detailed How-To topics with screenshots, covering both basic and advanced functionality within the software as well as many tips and tricks that can help make diagram designing an easy and enjoyable task.

Features and Highlights

Visio® Compatibility
The program is the best Microsoft Visio® alternative for Windows and macOS (Mac OS X). You can use the software to import your Visio® drawing files (VSD, VDX, and VSDX import) to easily convert your diagrams and work with them in Apple macOS and Windows Operating Systems. With this tool, you can also export Visio® drawings (VDX and VSDX export). Users can take advantage of the Visio® stencil import (VSX, VSS, and VSSX) and use Visio shapes in their diagrams.

Hundreds of Diagram Examples and Templates
The software includes many ready-to-use templates for flowcharts, organizational charts, flyers, certificates & business cards, and various diagram types. You can easily get started by editing existing diagram templates or by making your own one. The MyDraw Team is constantly working on creating new templates and examples, new diagram shapes and symbols to support your work, now and in the future.

Diagram Shapes and Symbols
The tool is easy to use diagram tool that comes with a large set of predefined shapes that you can directly drag and drop into your drawings. The shapes are divided into different libraries based on their purpose of usage. Moreover, this program allows you to create your own custom shapes, arrange them in libraries and reuse them within your diagrams.

Powerful Drawing Tools
The program comes with a large set of drawing tools that help you easily create any shape you need and style it to match your company's corporate identity or your personal demands. You can freely draw shapes using the Nurbs tool, or use the composing functions (Union, Intersect, Subtract, and Exclusive Or) to create new shapes from the basic ones.

Advanced Printing and Export Options
With the program, you can export your diagrams to images (PNG, JPEG, BMP, and TIFF), or PDF, SVG, and EMF vector files in just a few clicks. You can choose to export your images with high resolution, creating pictures that can be printed even on billboards. This software allows you to select the margins of the page (i.e. how much space remains blank between the end of the page and the end of your diagram/drawing), the page orientation, the zoom level, and others.

Automatic Diagram Layouts
The program comes with lots of Automatic Layout to help you quickly arrange your diagrams. Whether your diagram is large or small, you can have it perfectly layouted with just a few clicks. Each layout type provides many additional options, allowing you to customize the layout to your specific requirements. Simply create your diagram without spending additional time on aligning shapes and once you're done - go to the Arrange tab -> Layout Shapes button and arrange your diagram.

Powerful Rich Text Support
This software has powerful support for rich text and text formatting. With the advanced text formatting features in the product, you will be able to make your diagrams outstanding. You have control over the text font, text styles, paragraph alignment, bullets, and numbering, etc.

Spell Check and Proofing Languages
The tool includes a Spell Checker which is compatible with Open Office dictionaries (Hunspell Spell Check Dictionary .OXT files). By default, the software comes with English (United States), Bulgarian (Bulgaria), German (Germany), Spanish (Spain), French (France), Portuguese (Portugal), and Russian (Russia) dictionaries.

ESRI Shapefile Import for Drawing Maps
This tool supports the importing of geographical map data from the popular ESRI shapefile format. This makes it an ideal map drawing software solution. The shapefile format is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software.

Barcode Drawing
With the software, you can insert linear and matrix barcodes in your diagrams. The barcode widget in the program can help you include additional information within your diagrams and drawings.

GEDCOM Format Family Trees
The product supports importing from and exporting to GEDCOM format. This makes it the perfect tool for drawing family tree diagrams. A GEDCOM file is a plain text, containing genealogical information about individuals and metadata linking these records together.

Mail Merge
This software comes with built-in mail merge functionality. Create your diagram, insert a merge field and connect your diagram to a contact database. You can match any field you have in your database and display it in your diagram. When the fields are matched you can select to either save copies of your diagram (drawing) for each value of your database or to directly send emails to all recipients.

Presentations
My Draw lets you easily make presentations by switching to presentation mode. In Presentation mode, you will see your drawing on full screen. During the presentation, you can navigate between the different pages of your drawing, navigate through the bookmarks on the selected page, or control the zoom level.

Note: 30 days trial version.

Also Available: Download MyDraw for Mac

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What's new in this version:

MyDraw 6.0
- Change log not available for this version


MyDraw 5.4
- Change log not available for this version


MyDraw 5.3
Improved high DPI support:
- MyDraw is now per-monitor DPI-aware and will automatically switch the rendering resolution of all UI elements depending on the current monitor’s DPI

Import and Export Visio:
Visio import and export improvements:
- Import and export of shape tooltips
- Various minor bug fixes and improvements

AutoCAD import and export improvements:
- Import of dimension entities
- Insert entities import improvements
- Improved import speed and memory usage
- Various other minor bug fixes

PDF Export:
- Added support for multi-page PDF export as well as export of hyperlink elements in PDF

Advanced Printing and Export:
- Improved printing

Localization:
- Improved localization

Copy Paste RTFTXTHTML:
- Improved copy/paste from RTF, TXT, and HTML sources

Hardware Accelerated Drawing:
- Improved GPU accelerated rendering

Thousands of new shapes:
- New family tree shapes settings
- The family tree diagram extension now provides 2 settings for family tree shapes: date format (show dates as 4-digit years or in day/month/year format) and whether to show photos or not.


MyDraw 5.0.2
- Change log not available for this version


MyDraw 5.0.1
- Thousands of new shapes
- 300+ new libraries
- Redesigned library browser
- OpenGL hardware-accelerated drawing
- Much faster startup
- Shape hyperlinks
- Visio import and export improvements
- AutoCAD import and export improvements
- Additional Windows 10 theme
- Improved localization


MyDraw 5.0.0
- Change log not available for this version


MyDraw 4.3.0
AutoCAD Drawing Interchange (DXF) import:
- MyDraw can now open AutoCAD Drawings in the popular AutoCAD Drawing Interchange/Exchange format (DXF)

New drawing templates:
- We added some new drawing templates like Timeline template

Visio import and export improvements:
- Improved compatibility with the latest Visio format

Ribbon interface and other UI improvements:
- Improved buttons on dropdown appearance and interactivity
- UI elements spacing optimizations for small screens
- Support for fractional font sizes from the UI


MyDraw 4.2.0
- The new version comes with New Sidebar Panel and Quick Access Toolbar, Theme Color pickers, Enhanced shape shadows, Visio import and export improvements, Localization adjustments


MyDraw 4.1.2
- Change log not available for this version


MyDraw 4.0.0
New Sidebar Panel:
- A new Sidebar Panel (Sidebar) has been added to the MyDraw User Interface
- The Sidebar allows you to modify the position and size of selected shapes, as well as styles of the shape's geometry and text

New Quick Access toolbar:
- A new Quick Access toolbar has been added to the ribbon. The buttons of the Quick Access toolbar are fully customizable, thus allowing you to have quick access to your most frequently used commands

Theme color pickers:
- All color pickers across the UI are updated to support a new Theme Color Picker, that allows you to choose a theme specific color. When you select a theme color, the actual color value will change when you change the drawing theme. This allows you to create drawings, the colors of which are synchronized with the current theme

Enhanced shape shadows:
- The shadows have been extended to support alignment and skew. The combination of these features allows you to achieve perspective shadow effects

Visio import and export improvements:
The Visio import and export have been improved with the following:
- Support for shape shadow import and export
- Export of tables as grouped shapes in Visio
- Various bug fixes and small improvements

Localization improvements:
We have improved the following aspects of the MyDraw localization support:
- UI translations
- Localization dictionaries now include a setting for the desired font size and for the Chinese and Japanese languages a larger font is used to make them more readable


MyDraw 3.9.0
- New drawing themes and shape styles, improved Visio import and WMF and EMF import, smart tables, .xls import for orgcharts


MyDraw 3.0.0
- Change log not available for this version