SmartDraw

Criação fácil de fluxogramas

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Facilemente estrturo ideias num fluxograma com diversidade de opções e modelos

Desvantagens:

Limitações do software perante os diferentes tipos de licenças

Fluxogramas profissionais

Comentários: Uso num contexto emrpesarial para traçar fluxogramas de processo e alguns estudos de layouts de processos.

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Capacidade de criação e design de fluxogramas e layouts em poucos minutos

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Algumas dificuldades de conversão em modelos de imagem e pdf, muita desformatação.

The perfect software for edit and modify with vector tools

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This is the best software if you want and need to edit segment of a picture or image, because is pretty easy to use, the tools are very friendly and you can even work a pixel level with the maximum zoom and the results are awesome.

Desvantagens:

It is a very heavy software and demands many resources of your computer you need a very high speed ram memory and a good video card to get the most of this software.

Great platform for simple submittal drawings.

Comentários: If you are trying to do small professional projects, or simply create a blueprint of you home, SmartDraw's ease of use and robust set of options make it the smart choice over competitors.

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Where this software really shines for our business is its ease of use for submittal drawings when bidding and creating contracts for jobs. It allows us to empower our salesmen to create their own submittals without the expense or training needed for some of the more "professional" suites. This means for smaller projects we do not need to tie up our senior estimators, leaving their time free and better spent with CAD. What this means is that for job cost, we are able to use lower wage employees to perform simpler tasks and not eat into the margins of a job from utilizing higher paid engineers.

Desvantagens:

It can be a bit finicky in trying to get it to do exactly what you want it to do. Its ease of use sometimes means that you are fighting those very elements that make it easy to make it do what you want it to do. Snap to grids and the like, while toggle-able, provide an annoyance when they should "just work".

SmartDraw - Not quite a Visio replacement-- but pretty close

Comentários: SmartDraw is great if starting from scratch to create drawing ( both simple & complex). If documents need to be traded with users who are using Visio, there will be issues-- especially if drawings need to be updated or converted across several users.
It has most of the power of Visio with some added discovery things so if one is starting without the requirement of Visio integration, its a solid, but pricy tool.

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Lots of examples and help videos Enterprise discovery tools are great but expensive

Desvantagens:

Stated the Enterprise version would import Visio but it is not a 100% conversion to SmartDraw format so that the properties of the Visio document carry thru in the same way with the same functionality. *) Layers don't really stay intact. *) Significant amount of the custom formatting gets lost. *) Support and 'help' is primarily from static Web Videos. While they may provide some help, there is not much detail about what steps to take when things DO NOT work -- so one needs to call in and request support. No exactly the fastest turnaround.