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SmartDraw Cost Firstly the nitty-gritty. In terms of pricing, SmartDraw definitely works out cheaper than comparable diagramming software like MS Visio. SmartDraw has a both a Windows desktop version and a Cloud version. The Cloud version is available to Mac users as well and offers almost everything you get in the Windows desktop version but without the expensive upgrade fees. Catholic calendar 2017 for mac pro. SmartDraw Cloud costs $5.95 per month for teams of 5 or more and $9.95 per month for individuals.

This is pretty competitive when you consider Microsoft charges $299 for Visio Standard and $589.99 for Visio Professional. The Office 365 version of Visio (now confusingly marketed as Visio Online Plan 2 by Microsoft) costs $15.00 per user/month annually or $18.00 per user/month monthly. There are also no upgrade fees with SmartDraw like there is with MS Visio and no extra cost for premium support which is included in team plans. For companies, an Enterprise Plan works out good value for money at $59.90 for up to 50 users compared to around $156.00 for a comparable Microsoft Visio license. The savings increase exponentially with the number of users.

SmartDraw Enterprise plans now include administrative controls for site licenses. This means that IT admins have full control over who can access SmartDraw and which documents they can access including those stored in the Cloud. Admins can also consolidate accounts under one account. Note that there is no SmartDraw for students special pricing and no educational or NGO discounts. SmartDraw Customer support is free via email or phone (Monday – Friday: 6 AM to 5 PM PST) and is provided at SmartDraw’s HQ in San Diego rather than offshore in India like with Microsoft Visio.

Getting Started To get going with SmartDraw Cloud, you simply by entering your email account and creating a password and you’re instantly on the main dashboard. In the latest version of SmartDraw 2018, you can now also sign-in with your Google account. SmartDraw is fully integrated with G Suite – you just need to download the add-on from the G Suite marketplace. The main User Interface will open immediately once you’ve signed-in and the first thing you notice is the UI is clean and streamlined. The good news is that SmartDraw Cloud isn’t just a port of SmartDraw Desktop for Windows and offers almost all the same interface, functionality and performance. It never feels like it gets in your way and it’s easy to access advanced tools and assets when you need them.

The other thing we noticed straight away is that SmartDraw is extremely fast and responsive. Ms office 2008 free download full version. There’s almost no lag as you use SmartDraw and it really is as if you were using it on desktop. One of the main attractions of SmartDraw is the ease of use compared to Visio. Creating professional looking diagrams is extremely quick and easy mainly due to the drag and drop support and automated templates which do a lot of the hard work for you. Although Visio does this to some extent for, swimlanes and, SmartDraw does it for far more diagram types. These include Project Charts, Mind Maps,, Decision Trees, Cause & Effect Diagrams,, and more.

When you make changes to a diagram, SmartDraw automatically closes any branch gaps and re-adjusts or re-balances the diagram so that it still flows and looks professional. This is particularly time-saving when drawing highly complex and technical diagrams such as electrical circuits and engineering documents. When you drag a shape or symbol into a connector, SmartDraw automatically re-balances the layout and even rotates symbols in circuits so that they snap into place. Removing symbols is equally painless – just remove them and the line reconnects instantly. The way smart templates automatically re-balance and adjust is something definitely missing from Visio where asymmetrical diagrams or broken connectors are easier to miss in large diagrams.