I've had pretty good luck with OmniGraffle Professional, and, it's fairly cheap, too. Has many of the features Visio has, and, is gaining more on a regular basis. It lacks the Visio silly pictures (although you could create your own easily enough), but, it does understand connections between objects and has some more advanced metadata features I haven't yet learned to use. It's also got half-way decent auto-layout capabilities. http://www.omnigroup.com Owen --On March 21, 2006 9:17:44 PM -0500 "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com> wrote:
Much of the enterprise market seems wedded to Visio as their network graphics tool, which locks them into Windows. Personally, I hate both little pictures of equipment and Cisco hockey-puck icons; I much prefer things like rectangles saying "7507 STL-1" or "M160 NYC-3".
Assuming you use *NIX platforms (including BSD under Mac OS X), what are your preferred tools for network drawings, both for internal and external use? I'd hate to be driven to Windows only because I need Visio.
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