TL;DR
This fails:
brew update drawio
brew upgrade drawio
This works:
brew cask upgrade drawio
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/31
This fails:
brew update drawio
brew upgrade drawio
This works:
brew cask upgrade drawio
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/20
I needed a way to draw floor plans.
PowerPoint solutions were to cumbersome, but then I remembered draw.io: it hasĀ [WayBack] draw.io Floorplan stencils – draw.io
Have you tried the floorplan stencils in draw.io? You can open the library directly by using the libs parameter, www.draw.io/?libs=floorplan. Or, you can enable them in your library section by clicking “more shapes” (bottom right) and ticking “floorplans”, then apply:
I configured draw.io to show measurements in points, then took 100 points per meter as scale.
At first I most of my measurements were wrong because the I thought the “fat” grid lines were every 50 points. They are not:
How confusing!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/22
Via [WayBack] Tutorial 3 – Connectors, Waypoints, and Altering Shapes – draw.io Online – draw.io Support: this is the only way to remove waypoints on a shape:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/03
One of the things that bugged me for a long time is that every now and then for some shapes, when editing their text, the draw.io web interface puts in trailing line feeds after the text, messing up layout.
The easiest way to work around it is by searching inside the diagram XML for
, then replacing that with a
""
.
(the above code got screwed by WordPress.com saving it, so the search is in this small gist below)
This behaviour is intermittent on the drawio MacOS desktop app.
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–jeroen
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