SmartDraw

SmartDraw: Create basic business charts, diagrams

Easy-to-use software for creating basic business charts, diagrams, and presentations

SmartDraw lets you create full-color flowcharts, floor plans, org charts, technical diagrams, calendars and more. You'll get professional results in just a few minutes, guaranteed.

There are more than 60,000 professionally designed symbols and more than 1,200 industry-specific templates.

All you do is pick a template from a thumbnail menu, and then drag and drop whatever symbols you need on to it-SmartDraw automatically aligns everything, giving you a perfect chart, diagram, floor plan, or drawing every time. You don't need any drawing or design experience to get perfect results because the "talent" is built in.

A robust set of features-docking symbol libraries, dozens of line tools, automatic connectors, line-hops, and more-make drawing a breeze. There are also more than 30 wizards to walk you through projects step by step, ensuring your success the very first time you use SmartDraw.

The finished product will make you look like a graphics genius-perfectly aligned with a professional, full-color finish. You can even add your own photos to give your charts, plans and other drawings both a more realistic look and a more personal touch.

SmartDraw works hand-in-hand with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other products you use everyday. Putting a SmartDraw drawing into another document or presentation is as simple as copy and paste, and you can also easily copy and paste text and graphics from other programs into your SmartDraw drawings. SmartDraw is easier to use than products like Visio, and it costs less, too.

SmartDraw features:

Automatic Flowcharting
Build flowcharts by clicking simple commands, rather than manually arranging and connecting shapes on the page. Lines are drawn automatically, and formatting is automatic with shapes evenly spaced and perfectly aligned.

Automatic Business Graphics of all Kinds
SmartDraw includes hundreds of specialized SmartTemplates to automate the creation of every type of diagram, including: organization charts, project charts, decision trees, cause-effect diagrams, genograms, and more.

Instant Graphic Design
A professionally-designed graphic theme, specifying colors, line and type style, is automatically applied to each graphic. Select and change the theme with a single click.

Express Charting
Create charts and graphs without having to make a spreadsheet first. Simply pick a chart and type your data directly into the bars. You can even drag the bars to represent the right values.

ImageCharts
Use pictures and images to display your information instead of standard bars, lines and circles. Create an ImageChart in seconds by dragging any image-even a photo-onto your chart, and watch your data come alive.

Live Maps
Live Maps capture live data from the Internet allowing you to incorporate roads, regions, counties, zip codes, countries and even satellite images from across the globe into their illustrations-all as separate, editable elements.

Integrated Photo Capability
Built-in photo-software functionality allows you to import images directly from your digital camera or other source, crop and scale, adjust color and brightness, and drop them into org charts or any other illustration

Microsoft Office Interoperability
SmartDraw works seamlessly with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and other Windows-based programs-copy your illustration into any Office document with a single click.


Limitations:

- 7-day trial
- Nag screen