Cumulate Draw - online tool to replace Visio

November 5, 2006 at 9:59 pm

There aren’t that many Visio replacements available on the net. I wrote about the alternative Gliffy earlier, but there’s another alternative called Cumulate Draw.

At the moment, you don’t have to register to start drawing, you just press “draw” and it starts. You cannot store files on their servers but you open/save to your local harddrive.

Compared to Gliffy, it doesn’t rely on Flash and allows you to save all your work locally in SVG, JPG, PNG, PDF, and editable formats. It’s not as powerful as Gliffy and doesn’t have as many symbols but it haven’t been around for so long so make sure to check back often!

Oh and by the way, it’s open source! You can download the source and put it on your own servers.

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Venu

Monday, November 6th, 2006 at 6:04 am

Yup I did check on cumulative draw .. however the site was “digged” and was not working.. nice tool though :)

Servaas Schrama

Monday, November 6th, 2006 at 12:36 pm

I am using a lot of webbased software. But apps like visio or gliffy aren’t apps I personally need or use. But reporting on my site, http://www.web2weblog.com requires e to check out a lot of stuff, and I have to say gliffy for instance works pretty well.

XF

Monday, November 6th, 2006 at 5:36 pm

Yeah….. nowday lots of online application that can use for our daily work as Gliffy. Is an online application that having similar concept as Ms Office Visio, for more information can check on my site.

Gliffy - Create & Share Diagrams Online

Greenknight

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 at 4:31 pm

I don’t know if it’s a good idea to unistall all of the desktop applications but some might be a good idea, especially to bad these couldn’t run on a network.

webthreads.de » Cumulate Draw - der online Visio Ersatz

Thursday, November 9th, 2006 at 10:51 am

[...] Und wieder ein neues Utility - Cumulate Draw, der selbsternannte Visio Ersatz. Diese Aussage ist es doch Wert, dass man einen kleinen Blick auf das Tool wirft. Es bestehen zwei Möglichkeiten Draw zu verwenden. Die erste ist der Download der Anwendungen als .war Binary und es lokal auf dem Tomcat zu deployen oder als zweite Möglichkeit die Anwendung direkt online zu testen. Ich denke die zweite Möglichkeit ist vorerst die schnellere Variante. [...]

paper shredders

Thursday, March 8th, 2007 at 11:27 am

Gliffy’s interface is really slick. That shows you what you can get with Flash over Ajax–I understand it’s implemented in OpenLaszlo, which generates Flash. I tried using Gliffy to make a graphic for a project I was working on and I ran into so many bugs that I couldn’t finish.

Sara

Friday, March 9th, 2007 at 1:50 am

can’t i draw pics?????

pairazaweb

Thursday, May 24th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

i receive a message that gliffy is free only for 3 times for 3 documents… then i have to pay for use it. It makes feel its not free. so i found http://www.bubbl.us/ and my live changes. much better, minimalistic and intuitive

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dan

Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

What a shame - cumulative draw is no longer open source - it was bought by autodesk - only one of the biggest names in CAD. So much for that.. Next!

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