Flow Chart or Architecture Diagram

[Chris Mary]

Hi,

Can anyone suggest a good open source flow chart or architecture diagram which can be used locally or installed in pc for creating diagrams for projects?

Thanks

[Tim Holloway]

Flow charts are not all that common for OOP-based systems, as long complex branching and looping sequences are antithetical to method-style coding.

You'd be best off doing a Google search. However, I do a lot of charting using the GraphViz utility. For general app design charting needs, I have used ArgoUML, which does a variety of chart types, though I'm not sure how actively it has been maintained. UML went from a "must-have" to relative obscurity a while back.

As I recall, Visio was pretty good at flowcharts, though not open-source. The Dia program is open-source, but I find it an inferior equivalent.

I do have a true flow-charting program, but it's in Fortran, runs on a Prime 300 minicomputer and prints best on 132-column paper (which is actually no problem with a 17.5 cpi font landscape on a laser printer, but was originally dot-matrix fanfold). Source is special comments in the Fortran code of the program to be charted. Biggest problem is that I only have it in printout form. My only portable option back then would have been paper tape.

[Tim Cooke]

I like C4 Model for diagramming software systems.

I like WebSequenceDiagrams for workflow diagrams.

[Chris Mary]

Thank you Bro.Tim Holloway and Bro.Tim Cooke


1. Die Diagram Editor - http://dia-installer.de/
2. INKScape - https://inkscape.org/about/
3. Graphviz - https://graphviz.org/
4. ArgoUML - https://www.filehorse.com/download-argouml/screenshots/
5. C4Model - https://c4model.com/
6. Web Sequence Diagrams - https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
7. Open Graph Viz Platform - https://gephi.org/
8. Raw Graphs - https://www.rawgraphs.io/

[Tim Cooke]

Bro?

[Chris Mary]

Sorry..It was typo....

[Tim Holloway]

Ah! How could I forget Inkscape!?

Incidentally, for Linux systems you can generally download and install Inkscape and Dia using your OS package manager. GraphViz as well.