flow charts are used everywhere in algorithms in globe diagrams, intending and instruction
manuals, lectures, presentations, you name it, but flow chart makers are very expensive.
In this video I'm going to show you for free flow chart makers, which you can use and get
professional quality results.
So let's get started after a short break.
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So shortly I will jump on my computer and I will show you what are the prices of some
of the paid flowchart creators and then I will show you my free options and the things
which I have looked at while selecting these options are ease of using How many shifts
are available in each one of them?
And how quickly you can create a chart or in other words, how many functions are available
in any of these, there are a few other open source options which I have not included in
this but those are because nobody is following those are there are not many users of those
flowchart makers.
Some of my subscribers who are on my channel, they know that I am a big fan of latech.
So first of these four is for illative users only and the rest of the three options are
for everyone.
And now without further ado, I will show you what are my pics for you.
Before we talk about the free options.
Let's have a look at some of the paid programs which we can use to create flow charts and
block diagrams or flow diagrams.
So you would be able to realize the advantage which we can get by using free and open source
software.
So the first one is Visio professional This is the most recognized, renowned one by Microsoft
and if you have nearly $1,000 to spare, you can buy this software and use for your flowcharts.
They also offer two monthly plans one is seven Australian dollar per month.
The other is $21.
If you want to see the difference and you want to spend this much money, you are welcome
to look at this website and go for it another paid option which is also very expensive in
my opinion is this one smart draw as you can see, they used to sell for 97 or you can buy
it if you have $300 sitting somewhere you can buy this and for multiple users will have
to pay 595 Let's have a look at another one.
This is called with me and they will ask you to give them $25 US per month.
If you want to use this for your flowcharts and now let's have a look at some of the free
options which will do almost same thing for free.
Now the first one I would like to show is based on latech latech is a typesetting software.
And there is a package in latech which is called Smart diagram package.
And if you are looking for this kind of simple flow charts for your presentations, and you
are familiar with latech, because latech has a little bit of learning curve.
And if you are on my channel for some time, I have a lot of videos about latech and also
one video about how to draw these flow charts and flow diagrams using this package.
There is a video about this, you can look at my channel, but literally you just have
to put a single line of code to draw this diagram and there are some other types of
diagrams like this one A little bit fancy one.
And these are some of the variants of these diagrams, these two are also part of this
package.
So these kind of simple flow diagrams are simple illustrations if you want, and you
are already using latech.
So you just have to include maybe few lines of code to draw these diagrams, and these
will be of highest quality possible.
If I zoom this, you can see that the quality is still the same, there is no blur, nothing.
This is the beauty of anything produced in latech, that the sharpness of the image never
goes down.
It doesn't matter how much you zoom into the image.
So this is a professional option but needs a little bit of programming skills.
Now the second free option is making flowcharts by using Google drawings.
So in Google drawings, you have a lot of shapes available This is the shape icon.
If I click here as you can see that I have lots of shapes available here which I can
use for my algorithms or for my illustrations, flow diagrams or any type of charts, some
arrow types are also available similarly call outs, some mathematical symbols and to connect
these you have a lot of connectors also in your Google drawing, line arrows, elbow connector,
curved connector, and so on.
So you can easily draw your flow diagrams and and flow charts by using Google drawing.
You can format them change the fill color, and you can also change the border color by
clicking here and then you can change it to blue if you want.
So this is the second free option.
Now another free option is lucid chart.
lucid chart is a software which is internet based or browser based.
You just open an account with them and then you We'll be able to access their editor here,
they have lot of shapes available.
So these are only few of them.
If I click on these shapes, as you can see that there are many shapes available here,
some of them are paid but only few.
As you can see, for example, this mind mapping is paid, but you can use free mind which is
another free open source software to compensate for this thing.
This is timeline and timeline is also paid.
The paid one are a little bit grayed out but as you can see that most of these shapes they
are freely available.
For example, if I click on this data flow, and then I can use this by clicking here use
the selected shapes and it will be added on the left hand side creating chart is very
simple on this.
You just drag and drop and if you want to connect these very simple, you just click
here.
You have lot of options.
If You want a state connection or angled connection, whatever.
So very simple to use very professional look, you can share this just like in a Google Drive
manner.
You can get a shareable link you can put the email address it will be shared.
If you want to export this, you click on file, and then export and you have lot of options
in which you can export your flowchart as an image as a vector image or a PDF.
You can also export in Vizio format.
So it's a fantastic software.
They have both free and paid items, as I mentioned by it's a very good option.
Now the last one and my favorite one is an open source software called Daya D, or diagram,
the short of diagram and it has also a big collection of shapes.
If I click here as you can see that there are three main assorted in which I have these
kind of shapes then flowchart.
The third one is UML Unified Modeling Language, which is for software development.
But if I click on other sheets, I have a lot more here, for example electic, then I can
add a ladder diagram or a logic, let's say click on logic.
So know if you select from this other sheets on the left hand side as you can see that
these shapes are being added to your menu, so you can add a lot more.
So all of these are free.
This is open source software.
And I use this a lot in my lectures and in my presentations.
For example, when I developed control systems engineering course, almost every diagram was
made in Diop, absolutely free, you don't have to worry about anything.
And you have a lot of options, a lot of shapes arrows available.
The only thing a little bit, you might need to learn is that if you want to, for example,
rights in subscripts are super scrapes are some Greek alphabet, then you should know
what is their unique code equivalent because in order to write these kind of things mathematics
and Greek letters and these kind of things you should know, their unique court because
in dire you have to put that Unicode So, I will make a tutorial about this, but this
is the software which I use the most.
So, this is it these are the four best options to create flow charts and blog diagrams.
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