MyDraw

Kommentare: At first it toke me such a little time to do what I wanted to do that I use it much more than I thought I will.
Now I take time trying to go "deeper" and always find something else to do, even a set of lights diagrams for my DSLR photo studio.
It will now help me to make the complete domotic diagram I have to do for home. After all I will spend a lot of time on the software, maybe as much I was "afraid" I would have to, but doing much more drawing than I thought I ever would.

Vorteile: A long time ago I knew Visio and kept quite a bad memory about it.
With MyDraw I found some example charts and only had to modify some ! It was so fast to do that I did much more charts than I planed to. For the first time I made a nice network diagram and thrown away my old paper drawing. I saw then that I was able to import Gedcom files to have my own family tree from an online site, a nice use of this backup file.
I'm only at the beginning of my use of this soft, there are a lot of tools I didn't used yet.
I plan to use it for some internet pages as I can export as html, maybe I will be able to start some Autocad project to with .dxf export. Visio format is there too if I find this soft again ...
There is even a mailing function, maybe a good idea for flyers diffusion.
I feel like it is a fusion of Viso, Corel Draw and Word, I think I like it.

Nachteile: The main negative thing for me is because I'm french ... and for now I have to stay with everything in english ...

Kommentare: Being able to draw diagrams quickly and attach them to my documents.

Vorteile: The learning curve is trivial. Especially for someone like me who used Visio for many years. I love the fact that unlike Visio, I do not have to wrestle with MyDraw all the time in order to achieve the effects I want. I took some old existing Vision drawing and MyDraw imported them with just few minor issues that I was able to fix quickly. Then, continuing with MyDraw was a lot easier than with Visio. Since I mainly do simple graphing, MyDraw is the best tool for me. I checked some of the alternatives but they were more expensive and I thought they were an overkill for what I needed and that they required much more learning and were more complicated to use.
I also like the fact MyDraw is installed on my Mac and is not a web app such as some of the alternatives.

Nachteile: Few issues I found:
* I couldn't find an easy way to connect lines or arrows from some locations to some other locations in the graph (it works well for most obvious locations you'd expect).
* There were few incidents that the software crashed. It happens often after I exported the drawing to another format. However, the export itself succeeded and reopening MyDraw works well and in most cases, (I learned that it's best to save the drawing before trying to export so the last operations are not lost).
* Starting MyDraw (compared to other apps on my Mac) takes a relatively too long.

Kommentare: I am a frequent user of visio to design software solution, I would like a same tool for Mac user.

Vorteile: possibility to open a visio version, very close to apply the same functionalities.

Nachteile: Some box did not show properly and overlap relation between object

Kommentare: I have used Visio for decades. I have a very old version of Visio and could not justify upgrading for a product I use occasionally. Came across MyDrawer and tried it out. It does everything I could want and costs a fraction of what Visio charges. I recently created a book to teach sailing and used MyDraw for lots of illustrations to show how to sail a boat. Great product.

Vorteile: Simple to use
Lots of functionality
Good support

Nachteile: Lost a menu panel on one occasion and could not get it back. Had to ask support how to do it

Kommentare: Looks like a lot of features and a well designed UI for the price, but the software is way too slow for me to be able to use it. Instead, I have to revert to my 9 year old copy of Visio.

Vorteile: The overall feature set and UI looks good, and there's a pretty good set of sample templates

Nachteile: It's unusably slow. I didn't take the time to look at the actual installed software to see why, but it feels like an older Java application would on a PC. I tried MyDraw 2 years ago and wound up uninstalling it. I just tried it again, installing a new version, on Oct 31, 2019. Once again -- it looks great, but loading and previewing templates is slow and laggy. Then, attempting to drag and move an item (box, arrow, connector, etc.) is astoundingly slow and laggy on my laptop. Drawing software should NOT be slow on my laptop -- it's a Dell XPS 15 9560 with a fast Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor, 32GB of RAM and a 1 terabyte solid state drive. There were no other apps running when I tested MyDraw. Everything else I use is lightning fast on this machine. Either the software is inherently slow, or it can't handle the fact that my display is 4K -- maybe the higher resolution throws it off. Whatever the reason, it's unusable for me.