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2024. LucidChart gets AI-powered diagram generation



Visual collaboration package Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite has received a range of AI-enhanced updates, that include deeper integration with Microsoft Copilot and Slack, advanced diagram creation in Lucidchart and new features in virtual whiteboard Lucidspark. The new integration with Microsoft Copilot enables users to effortlessly access Lucid documents and receive an AI-generated summary of a document. Lucidchart also got AI-driven diagram creation. Users can now easily create flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams and entity-relationship diagrams using text prompts. And Lucidspark now offers a brainstorming template that includes an AI brainstorm tool to help you maximize your brainstorming sessions.


2020. Draw.io's open source diagramming is moving to diagrams.net



Popular open-source diagramming web app Draw.io is shifting away from its renowned .io domain name to Diagrams.net to enhance security and ethics. The primary motivation for the change is a security concern associated with .io top-level domains, which the administrator responsible for issuing these domains has not addressed. This total lack of communication has led the diagrams.net development team to lose confidence in the .io TLD administrator. The switch from Draw.io to diagrams.net will be gradual and extend throughout 2020. The Draw.io domain name will continue to support the diagramming web application without redirects until the transition is fully completed.

2019. Google Drawings can now be embedded into Google Docs and easily updated



In a manner most delightful and entirely in keeping with the whims of the digital cosmos, Google Drawings is on the brink of unveiling a splendid new union with Google Docs. No longer shall users toil in the arcane ritual of conjuring fresh drawings via the Docs insert menu, laboring within a separate window to craft their masterpiece before ceremoniously inserting it. Instead, a most marvelous integration will allow you to saunter into the “Insert” menu, whereupon a visit to “Drawing” will reveal the tantalizing “From Drive” option. This opens a Drive file picker—a virtual treasure chest from which you may summon an existing Drawings file. Once embedded, this creation shall be linked inextricably to your doc, with changes from the source rippling through like a butterfly causing tidal waves (or something less dramatic). Of course, if one feels the need to sever ties and customize without consequence, unlinking the drawing is but a click away.


2018. Gliffy acquired by RogueWave Software



Gliffy is partnering with Rogue Wave Software, the company that assists global enterprise clients in addressing the most intricate challenges in developing, connecting and securing applications. Its platforms, tools, components and support are utilized across financial services, technology, healthcare, government, entertainment and manufacturing to provide value and mitigate risk. Partnering with Gliffy will enhance Rogue Wave Software's capacity to help companies accelerate development cycles. For Gliffy clients and community members, this new alliance will only enhance our ability to expand and refine Gliffy products. No modifications to license agreements are anticipated.


2018. LucidChart raises $72 million to grow the web-based diagramming software



In the grand tapestry of web-based visual design platforms, Lucid Software has casually sauntered onto the stage with a $72 million round of funding, which it no doubt intends to put to excellent use devising new ways to make diagramming slightly less soul-crushing. Established in the year 2010 (or, as future historians may call it, "The Dawn of Lucidness"), the company is best known for its crown jewel, the Lucidchart. Imagine, if you will, a Microsoft Visio clone that had a few espressos and decided to embrace collaboration, wireframing, and UI prototyping with a disarming sense of purpose. While it pitches itself to HR chart-makers and corporate types, it has been known to accommodate the needs of everyone from lone freelancers to procrastinating students. With rivals like Adobe and Microsoft Visio lurking in the shadows alongside contenders like SmartDraw, Gliffy, and the open-source Draw.io, Lucidchart leans heavily on its charm—promising ease-of-use, device-agnostic access, real-time collaboration, and brainy tricks like auto-generating diagrams and hooking into external data, all while pretending it doesn’t mind being compared to a glorified flowchart app.


2018. Microsoft Visio integrates with Hololense



In a universe not entirely unlike our own, Microsoft—purveyor of gadgets and gizmos occasionally resembling magic—has boldly thrust its AR wonder-gizmo, the Hololens, into the spotlight. The idea? To sprinkle a heady mix of productivity, quality, and safety over companies that dare to rethink their processes, data, and people (preferably in that order), thereby catapulting business impact and customer value into realms of sheer improbability. To spice things up, Microsoft Visio has been bestowed with a shiny upgrade tailored for intelligent manufacturing escapades, like rearranging facility layouts with the casual finesse of a Vogon rearranging poetry. And lo! In the grand arena of showcasing, Microsoft unveils Intelligent Manufacturing scenarios, with a little help from customer Dürr AG and two plucky Visio partners: FaciWare GmbH, who dabble in facility management wizardry, and X-Visual Technologies GmbH, who are, naturally, quite mad about PnID solutions.


2018. draw.io allows to automatically create diagrams from CSV files



Many different company departments and professionals handle data that is or can be presented in a table or spreadsheet format and often, that data is more quickly comprehended when converted into a diagram. If you want to visualize that data, it’s now simple to import it into draw.io. Each row represents a shape and the columns contain the shape's data. Not all columns are included as data in the diagram – some of these columns instruct draw.io on how to format the shape or are used as identifiers for creating connectors between the shapes. You can configure the formatting for the shapes.


2018. Gliffy adds AWS Simple Icons



In the grand tradition of improbably useful technologies, it used to be that while most translation apps could muddle through offline, they lacked the spark of cleverness brought on by machine learning algorithms. Enter the Microsoft Translator app, which, until now, shared this same affliction on Amazon Fire, Android, and iOS. But starting today — and one can only imagine the universe giving an approving nod — the app will deploy a slightly tweaked neural translation system even without an internet connection. Remarkably, Microsoft has managed this feat without demanding your phone possess any exotic AI chips; a mere modern device suffices, leaving one to marvel at just how much ingenuity can be squeezed into the average smartphone.


2018. OmniGraffle for Mac gets the new Stencil Browser experience



In the gloriously upgraded OmniGraffle 7.6 for Mac—a tool so brilliantly organized it might even impress the Great Galactic Bureaucratic Council—the Stencil Browser has acquired a newfound versatility, boldly taking up residence in either the left or right sidebar. Or, if you’re feeling particularly nostalgic, it can still appear as the popover or detached window you’ve grown fond of. Adding new items to a stencil is as simple as dragging them from the Canvas with the elegance of a pan-dimensional being (just hold down Option, naturally). But wait, there’s more! You can now wield multiple Stencils simultaneously, rearrange them with folders as effortlessly as interstellar hitchhiking, and generally revel in a level of organizational freedom that would make even Zaphod Beeblebrox pause for admiration.


2017. draw.io is now available as a Trello Power-Up



It’s now much easier to link related draw.io diagrams with Trello tasks – embed one or more diagrams into any Trello card instead of using a shared folder or cloud file service, or worse, sending the diagrams around via email. You’ll be able to collaborate with your team much more effectively and efficiently. draw.io allows you to create a diverse range of diagrams: flowcharts and BPMN diagrams, mockups and wireframes, UML and ER diagrams, floor plans and electrical circuits, infographics and many more. It has a comprehensive shape library, powerful tools for importing diagrams in other formats and stores all data within Trello.