Importing diagrams and libraries into draw.io

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How to write better queries for smart template diagrams

Query writing, also known as prompt engineering, is becoming an important skill as large language models and AI tools become more popular. It is hard to write a good query to ensure a good outcome from any type of content generator. Here’s how you can make the most of the smart templates feature in draw.io.
Generate diagrams of many different types from a text description via the template library in draw.io

19 Jun 2024

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Mermaid in draw.io updated to support ELK layout

Mermaid is a text-based syntax that you can use to describe a diagram, and automatically lay it out neatly on the diagram canvas. Enter your Mermaid diagram description in draw.io via Arrange > Insert > Advanced > Mermaid in the draw.io menu or + > Advanced > Mermaid from the toolbar. draw.io has updated to Mermaid version 10.9.1 to support the new ELK automatic layout.
Tell the Mermaid diagram generation tool to use the ELK layout option in your text diagram description

11 Jun 2024

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Smart diagram generation for more template diagrams

When you create a new diagram with the draw.io web editor, you can now choose to use our new smart diagram generator instead of one of our existing templates. Describe your diagram in a text phrase, and the tool will generate a diagram based on what it parses. For example, this entity relationship model was generated from the phrase “a customer purchases a product from a web store”.
Generate diagrams of many different types from a text description via the template library in draw.io

20 Mar 2023

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Use a custom shape library from the web

draw.io makes it easy to collect your most used shapes, images, custom shapes and diagram fragments in your own convenient custom shape library. Many custom libraries are available online as open source for you to use in diagrams, infographics and user documentation.
Open the gesture icons custom shape library in draw.io from the drawio-libs Github repository

24 Feb 2023

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Share diagram data in an image file

With draw.io, diagram data can be stored in many different file types, including PNG and SVG images. When you share an image with embedded diagram data, the recipient can drag and drop it onto the drawing canvas to open the diagram and continue editing.

13 Jan 2023

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Create data-driven diagrams with draw.io

Using diagrams.net or draw.io together with scripts and data sources, you can create data-driven diagrams, with colours, shapes, text labels and even animations that change to reflect live data.
Update shapes in a diagram based on live data with draw.io, Grafana and the Flowcharting plugin

08 Nov 2022

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Generate diagrams from code

Documenting software costs developers time and becomes outdated quickly. A code-first diagramming approach - describing the diagram in code or text while programming - works well for entity models (SQL database code), and class descriptions (PlantUML and Mermaid syntax).
An example sequence diagram inserted from Mermaid code

21 Oct 2022

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Biology and chemistry clipart libraries for draw.io with Bioicons

Bioicons is a collection of free custom shape libraries containing open source icons for life science applications. The website lets you select one or more shape libraries, and open them in the draw.io editor on the web.
Bioicons can be used to create a wide range of illustrations with draw.io

06 Jun 2022

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Create a mindmap from text with PlantUML

Mindmaps are useful to quickly capture ideas, and are easy to draw in draw.io and our draw.io branded apps. But some people prefer to work from text lists when brainstorming. Drop a text list into the PlantUML import tool and draw.io will generate your mindmap for you - no need to fuss with connectors or layouts.
Generate a mindmap from text in draw.io by inserting PlantUML in arithmetic notation via Arrange > Insert > Advanced > PlantUML

30 May 2022

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Import diagrams from Lucidchart EDU to draw.io

Lucidchart recently limited their free education plans, Lucidchart EDU, for students and teachers to only 3 editable diagrams. That means that all of the diagrams after your most recent three diagram files are set to read only, unless you switch to a premium subscription.

12 Oct 2021

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Import diagrams from Gliffy Online to draw.io

Gliffy recently removed their free tier offering in their online version. This means if your trial version has expired, you will no longer be able to edit up to 5 diagrams that you have created, unless you start a paid subscription.

21 Sep 2021

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Insert a diagram from specially formatted CSV data

You can create a diagram automatically from a combination of formatting information and CSV data from a spreadsheet. This may be practical when working with spreadsheet models of various types of data (org charts, attack trees, process flows), or CSV files exported from other programs, for example, modeled network topologies or software dependencies.

06 Dec 2020

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How to install and insert a diagram in Confluence Cloud

If you are looking for information on licensing draw.io for Confluence DC, there is another article for that.

14 Oct 2020

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Use Mermaid syntax to create diagrams

Mermaid is a syntax similar to Markdown where you can use text to describe and automatically generate diagrams. With Mermaid’s Markdown-inspired syntax, you can generate flow charts, UML diagrams, pie charts, Gantt charts, and more.
A simple sequence diagram inserted using the Mermaid syntax

15 Apr 2020

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Insert from text to create tree and entity diagrams

Several features in our diagram editor let you create diagrams automatically from simple text statements.

27 Dec 2019

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Export from Cloudockit to a .drawio diagram

Cloudockit is a platform which connects to and monitors your cloud and on-premises environment and automatically generates 2D or 3D diagrams. It works with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), VMWare Hyper-V, Alibaba Cloud, IBM Cloud, and your local infrastructure to visualise your network and automatically generate documentation.

18 Apr 2019

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Insert from SQL to create an ER diagram

Entity relationship diagrams show how data is structured in relational databases. Each entity consists of rows of attributes. ER diagrams are used in software development and by IT workers to design and document database structure.

08 Apr 2019

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Use Cloudcraft to export your AWS architecture to a .drawio diagram

Using Cloudcraft, you can securely connect to cloud environments and infrastructure components via your architecture diagrams where statistics, resource information and more is updated in real time. The 3D isometric view that Cloudcraft uses is familiar to engineers and IT staff as it often matches the tools they learned on. The automatic updates driven from your company’s live systems makes Cloudcraft a fantastic tool for monitoring your AWS cloud infrastructure. The statistics are also helpful to estimate costs when you want to make changes to your system.
Examples of Cloudcraft infrastructure diagrams exported to draw.io

27 Feb 2019

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draw.io import formats and sources

As draw.io aims to become the de facto diagramming tool, used by everyone around the world, it’s important to be able to import from a variety of file formats and from a number of storage locations.

19 Nov 2018

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