yEd Graph Editor is an easy-to-use tool for creating and editing diagrams.
The program works much like many similar applications. You'll choose your symbols from a palette (flowchart, UML, ERD, BPNM, network, computer, more), drag and drop them onto the page, and position them as you like. Symbols may then be customised with text, colours, URLs and more, before you join them up with lines to represent your structure or ideas.
- With the yEd Graph Editor you can create graphs and diagrams on Mac OS C. In addition to several styles, the editor features a great number of changeable formats, so you can read as well as edit GraphML files.
- YEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality drawings of diagrams.
The symbols on offer are more visually appealing than some of the free competition, which is an immediate plus. YEd isn't just about creating complicated charts for technical documents: it could be just as useful when designing something simple but attractive for a presentation.
It's easy to pick up the diagramming basics, too. When drawing a line between two symbols, say, you don't have to select a Line tool, look for symbol 'handles' or anything else: just left-click somewhere over one symbol, hold the mouse button down and drag to another symbol, release and the line appears.
The yEd free graph editor is known for supporting a wide range of diagram types, which is why it is so popular with a wide range of users. It allows users to integrate illustrated diagrams for analysis including mind maps, charts used for organization purposes and much more.
YEd can import data from GraphML files, XLS/ XLSX spreadsheets, GML/ XGML and more. But the real surprise was support for GEDCOM, the genealogy format. Not only does this allow yEd to import and display your family tree, it even offers some fine control over the process, for example choosing exactly which tags you'd like to import.
Export options are another highlight. You're not just restricted to saving your graphs as regular images (GIF, JPG, PNG), the program can also export EPS, SVG/ SVGX and PDF. There's even an HTML page with a custom Flash viewer, complete with its own chart panning, zoom and print controls.
Version 3.17 brings: (Changelog):
New Features
Added import support for the GraphML file format variants of our commercial yFiles diagramming libraries yFiles for JavaFX (3.x version series) and yFiles for HTML (2.x version series).
The 'Find...' command and the 'Select Elements' tool now additionally support text matching using the full power of regular expressions.
Improvements
Improved and corrected import support for the GraphML file format variants of our commercial yFiles diagramming libraries yFiles for Java (3.x version series), yFiles for JavaFX (2.x version series), and yFiles for HTML (1.x version series).
The 'Apply' and 'Apply Type' commands from the Palette's context menu now also support converting normal nodes to open/closed group nodes and vice versa. [Q&A 10269]
The JREs that are installed by the Windows, Mac, and Linux installers have been updated to Java 1.8.0_121.
Bugfixes
Addressed a problem in the Excel import where importing spreadsheets with blanks/whitespace in sheet names failed. [Q&A 10230]
Many bugfixes, great and small.
YEd is easy for beginners to pick up, yet also provides the advanced controls experts need. Its diagrams look great, they're very configurable, and a host of export options gives you plenty of ways to share them with the world.
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