![]() If you opt to create a new diagram, you can create a blank diagram with a default set of drawing tools, a particular diagram type or a diagram imported from a template URL: If you have a previously saved diagram, you can select it from a file browser. Local (device) storage is the default, but it looks like you can also link Google Drive or OneDrive online storage, though I haven’t tried this (yet!): When you create a new diagram, you are prompted for a save location: draw.io is actually a front end application built on top of the mxGraph JavaScript diagramming library and based on the example GraphEditor. draw.io is a web-based or electron app wrapped SVG editor. Recently, I came across draw.io, via the jupyterlab-drawio extension. Sometimes, though, it can be handy to be able to actually draw a diagram by actually drawing it, rather than generating it from a textual source. accessibility: if we generate diagrams from text, there is a good chance we could also generate equivalent textual descriptions of diagrams from the same text.search: if you can search the text used to generate a diagram as well text that appears within a diagram, it supports discovery.maintaining diagrams is simplified: change the underlying text to change the logical content of the diagram, or change the rendering pipeline to change the output design or format.diagram generation can be automated, with standardised style / rendering of the diagram separated from it’s logical description.There are a several reasons I think such things useful, particularly in online, distance education context in an institution with a factory production model: A skim back through this blog will turn up several posts over the years on the topic of “writing diagrams”, using text based scripts along with diagram generating applications to create diagrams from textual descriptions.
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