Dia: free alternative to Microsoft Visio

Day is a cross-platform diagram maker (GNU / Linux, Unix and Windows) based on GTK + with GPL license inspired by the commercial version of Microsoft Visio, although more oriented towards informal schemes for occasional use.

With Dia you currently have special objects to help you draw UML diagrams, flow charts, network diagrams, cisco, and various other diagrams. Besides, it is also possible to add new functions and actions with XML files.


We can install it using aptitude, since it is in the Ubuntu repositories:

sudo aptitude install day

You can run it from:

Applications > Graphics > Diagram editor

You may also be interested in downloading Self. It consists of a UML file creator for use with Day, with which you can generate diagrams of your Perl or C ++ codes.

sudo aptitude install autodia

Link:

Official Website!
Ubuntu Packages

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  1.   rich said

    I needed a substitute for this visio.
    Finally!
    testing and thanks!
    PS: placed in live firefox bookmarks. Good info

  2.   Let's use Linux said

    Hello! Look ... I really don't know. But it occurs to me to suggest that you try OpenOffice Draw. Linux has many programs that allow you to print to PDF, but few (actually, some) that allow you to take it as a basis for something else or edit them ... I think Draw would be one of them.

    Another thing you can try is to open the PDF in full screen and press the "Print Screen" or "Print Screen" button so that Linux will "take a picture" of what you're seeing. Later it would be a matter of simply pasting the parts using GIMP or some other similar program. It is not the best option but it could work ... also, I don't think Visio does not have a function for what you ask either. 🙁

    Ah! Eye! On some keyboards Print Screen appears as PrtScr, on mine (which is in Spanish) it says Impr Pant.

    Hopefully the data has served!

    Hug! Paul.

  3.   rich said

    I ask: can we put a background pdf to make the diagram?
    I have a "sketch" of streets and rivers and I need to place the respective houses on the map.
    Thank you!

  4.   Let's use Linux said

    I forgot ... Kivio is also here to make this type of diagrams ... it is a KDE program, but you can install it in Ubuntu calmly (of course it will ask you to install KDE ... 😀) For more info. go to http://www.koffice.org/kivio/

  5.   Orlando said

    My preferred alternative to visio is Lucidchart.

    https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/es/alternativa-a-visio