MyDraw

The most cost effective MS Visio alternative for Mac. MyDraw allows you to load, edit and save VSD, VDX and VSDX drawings as well as stencils in VSX, VSS and VSSX.

MyDraw is an advanced diagramming software and vector graphics drawing tool. This diagram software includes powerful features to help you create flowcharts, org charts, mind maps, network diagrams, floor plans, family tree diagrams, general business diagrams, drawings and others.

Following are the major features of the application:

• Familiar User Interface - the user interface uses the familiar Ribbon UI that you recognize from the MS Office Suite.

• 100+ Diagram Examples and Templates - the software includes many ready-to-use templates for flowcharts, organizational charts, flyers, certificates & business cards, family tree diagrams and many other diagram types.

• 700+ Diagram Shapes and Symbols - more than 700 predefined shapes organized in 25 shape libraries. You can directly drag and drop them into your drawings. MyDraw also lets you to create your own custom shapes.

• MS Visio Compatibility - MyDraw is the best Microsoft Visio alternative for macOS (Mac OS X). You can use it to view, edit and save your Visio Drawing (VSDX) and Visio 2003-2010 Drawing (VSD, VDX) files. MyDraw can also be used a Visio viewer. You can also import and export Visio Stencils (VSSX) and Visio 2003-2010 Stencils (VSS, VSX).

• Visio-like "smart" shapes - MyDraw provides support for dynamic diagram shapes based on formulas.

• Powerful Drawing Tools - MyDraw comes with a large set of drawing tools which help you easily create any shape you need and style it to match your company's corporate identity or your personal demands. You can freely draw shapes using the NURBS tool (i.e. freehand drawing), or use the composing functions (Union, Intersect, Subtract, and Exclusive Or) to create new shapes from the basic ones. Additionally, you can combine simple shapes into groups and create advanced complex shapes. Save them in your own library for future reuse and edit them at any time.

• Advanced Printing and Export Options. MyDraw can export your diagrams to a wide range of raster (PNG, JPEG, and BMP) and vector images (EMF, SVG, AutoCAD Drawing Interchange DXF) as well as to PDF.

• Automatic Diagram Layouts - the diagram comes with lots of automatic layouts to help you quickly arrange your diagrams. Each layout type provides many options that let you to customize the layout to your specific requirements.

• Powerful Rich Text Support - the diagramming software has powerful support for rich text and text formatting. You have full control over the text font, text styles, paragraph alignment, bullets and numbering, images, barcodes etc. In addition the rich text supports copying and pasting of RTF formatted rich text from other applications.

• Spell Check and Proofing Languages - MyDraw includes a Spell Checker which is compatible with Open Office dictionaries (Hunspell Spell Check Dictionary .OXT files). You can change the proofing language or load an external dictionary.

• Import of map data from ESRI shapefiles.

• Support for creating and inserting in your diagrams more than 30 types of linear (1D) and matrix (2D) barcodes like EAN-13, UPC, UPC-A, Code-39, Code-128, ISBN, PDF417, Data Matrix, QR Code, etc.

• User Interface Localization - you can switch the user interface to a preferred language. English, Bulgarian, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish are currently supported.

• GEDCOM Format Family Trees - the software supports importing from and exporting to GEDCOM format. This makes it the perfect tool for drawing family tree diagrams.

• Mail Merge - MyDraw comes with built-in mail merge functionality. Create your diagram, insert a merge field and connect your diagram to a contact database. When the fields are matched you can select to either save copies of your diagram or each value of your database or to directly send emails to all recipients.

• The same application is also available for Windows with exactly the same features and functionality, which makes it easy to edit your diagrams on a Windows machine when you need to.