Overview

Diagram Designer

Diagram Designer

Overview

 

Description

Diagram Designer is a tool for creating flowcharts, diagrams or slide shows (eg. for an overhead projector).  The program excels at creation of technical diagrams and allows for easy editing and object manipulation.

Features (partial list)

  • Freeware! (user supported) - as of this date
  • Customizable templates which house often used pictures, symbols or objects
  • Group objects together as a single entity
  • Spellchecker for text used in diagrams
  • Automatic links between objects - move one object, the other is adjusted
  • Import objects or export diagrams as:
    BMP Windows® Bitmap
    CUR Windows® Cursor
    EMF Windows® Enhanced MetaFile
    GIF Graphics Interchange Format
    ICO Windows® Icon
    JP2 JPEG 2000 (requires Image Analyzer installed)
    JPG Joint Picture Expert Group
    MNG Multiple-image Network Graphics
    PCX Zsoft Paintbrush
    PNG Portable Network Graphics
    TIF TIFF image (requires Image Analyzer installed)
    WMF Windows® MetaFile
  • use multiple layers and pages in a single diagram
  • Slide show viewer (view sequential pages)
  • Preview mode
  • Optional snap mode with visible or invisible grid
  • Graph plotter to plot mathematical expressions
  • Compressed file format for minimizing drawing file size
  • Advanced pocket calculator with equation solver
  • MeeSoft Image Analyzer integration for bitmap image editing and extended file format support - separate package

 

Using this file

This file contains tools which may help in locating information about Diagram Designer.  In order of ease of use, try:

  • Contents tab - this itemizes each page in the document
  • Index - some (but not all!) topics have been itemized in the index
  • Search - this document contains a full text searchable database - see Using Search Effectively
  • The navigation pane also contains a Favorites tab - you make save your favorite locations in this document for easy reuse.

This manual was prepared by Allen Titley, BCLS ([email protected]), British Columbia, Canada
Last edited January 8, 2006.