Wednesday, May 6, 2009

yEd - Free Visio replacement in Java

yEd

URL: yEd
Version: 3.2
Cost: $0
Platform: Windows/OS X/Linux/Unix/Web Start

A replacement for Visio and build on Java. yEd has powerful features especially the export function which can export to Flash, SVG, PDF, Enhanced Windows Meta File (EMF), JPG/GIF/BMP/PNG, EPS and HTML image maps with support for embedding URLs and descriptive tooltips for both nodes and edges.

Official Description

yEd is a very powerful graph editor that can be used to quickly and effectively generate drawings and to apply automatic layouts to a range of different diagrams and networks.

yEd is available as a free download with unrestricted functionality!


yEd makes full use of the yFiles library. This is a Java class library enabling the viewing, editing, optimizing, drawing, and animating of a wide range of diagrams, networks, and other graph-like structures.


yEd has been built using 100% lightweight Swing components. This allows it to run on any platform where a suitable Runtime Environment is available.



1 comment:

  1. Does it only work in Linux or is it available for all three platforms. I prefer software to cloud based / online as long as any platform user can use them. Specially a visio alternative that is web based can be very useful. I know of such tool called Creately an online diagram software with real-time collaboration enabled.

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