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edrawmax
2023

Version 12.6.0

Aug 31

New Feature

  • AI Diagram Maker:
    • Timeline: Ask AI to generate a timeline based on your prompt.
    • Lean Canvas: Generate a lean canvas based on your prompt.
    • PEST analysis: Generate a PEST analysis diagram based on your prompt.
    • SWOT Analysis: Generate a SWOT analysis diagram based on your prompt.
    • User Profile: Generate a user profile based on your prompt.
    • User Story: Generate a user story based on your prompt.
    • Flowchart Optimization: Optimize a flowchart through continuous dialogue with AI.
  • AI Analysis:
    • Flowchart Analysis: Use AI to describe, analyze, and optimize flowcharts.
    • Gantt Chart Analysis: Get an overview of the project, learn about project progress, identify risks, and sum up lessons you can learn.
    • Chart Analysis: Compare data, identify anomalies, sum up data, and predict trends.
    • Organizational Chart Analysis: Describe and analyze an organization chart.
  • AI Chatbot:
    • Continuous dialogue: AI will save chat history if the continuous dialogue mode is on.
    • AI Diagramming: Create a diagram based on an answer of AI with a simple click.
  • AI Drawing:
    • AI drawing: Convert text into a drawing with various styles to choose from.
    • Drawing style change: Change the style of an existing drawing with AI.

Version 12.1.0

June 12

New

  • [New Feature] AI Smart Assistant: The AI smart assistant is a chat robot that can generate creative drawings based on the questions you input. It expands your thinking and automatically inserts text-generated images into the canvas.
    Users can do this in two ways:
    1. Entering a sentence to create a drawing: Enter instructions → execute instructions → complete the drawing (mind map, list, text box) ;
    2. Selecting a sentence to generate brainstorm content: Select the shape → right-click shortcut menu → AI generates content.
  • [New Feature] OCR Image Text Extraction: Users can upload an image and extract text from it through OCR recognition. The extracted text can be directly applied to the canvas.
  • [New Feature] Drawing Types, Symbols, and Templates: EdrawMax now offers new drawing types, symbols, and templates. An investigator can make a flat copy of the crime scene through Floor Plan > Crime Scene Images. Users can also click on Software and Database > Software Development > ArchiMate to use ArchiMate, a visual business analysis model that can integrate different kinds of architecture.
  • [New Feature] Insert Plug-in:
    Iconfont: Alibaba Icon library
    Pixabay: high-quality image library.
  • [New Feature] Piping P&ID Symbols: Multi-node adjustable piping P&ID symbols have been added to make it easier to expand/collapse.

Improvement

  • Optimize UI of Gantt charts. Users can manage Gantt chart columns, set an unlimited number of exception dates, and copy Gantt columns. Calendar units in shape view have also been enhanced.
  • Optimize shape aligning. When two shapes align, a fluorescent line appears so that the user can faster align shapes.

Version 12.0.6

Apr 06

New

  • Support importing of Visio formats including .vsdx and .vsd formats.

Version 12.0.2

Oct 26

New

  • [New Feature] Users can now consult online customer service.

Improvement

  • Support the insertion of cloud files through hyperlinks.
2022

Version 12.0.0

Sep 13

Improvement

  • Optimize software UI.
  • Support replacing photos with one-click drag and uploading them in organizational charts.
  • Support change of smart shape layout types.
2021

Version 11.0.0

July 9

New

  • [New Feature] The Home Page has a brand new UI, with the Recommended tab and Recent tab for quick access.
  • [New Feature] The new focus mode can help users stay focused on diagramming.
  • [New Feature] The auto-formatting tool allows users to change the style of diagrams and colors in batch.
  • [New Feature] The new Help Center offers access to what's new, diagram tips, video tutorials, and more.
  • Support conversion of diagrams into personal templates.
  • Support addition of exception days.

Improvement

  • Optimize software UI.
  • Support replacing photos with one-click drag and upload them in organizational charts.
  • Support change of smart shape layout types.
2020

Version 10.0.0

Apr 13

New

  • [New Feature] New features of forms enable seamless import and export of Excel files.
  • [New Feature] The addition of a floor plan feature has made connecting walls more flexible.
  • [New Feature] Some new themes, icons, and process steps are available.
  • [New Feature] The new Help Center offers access to what's new, diagram tips, video tutorials, and more.
  • [New Feature] Users can create a container to group together logically-related shapes.
  • [New Feature] A reminder will appear when the user forgets to save file modifications.
  • Support exporting of documents into multiple PDF files.
  • [New Feature] The software offers new types of diagrams, including analysis canvas, funnel diagrams, roadmaps, customer journey maps, calendar plans, and goal setting worksheets.
  • [New Feature] Users could create and customize smart shapes.
  • [New Feature] New UI color themes allow users to customize the default blue color to other colors such as purple or gray.
  • [New Feature] The new "F8" shortcut allows users to switch to the mode of continuous drawing while using elementary tools.
  • [New Feature] Format Painter for Text is now available.
  • [New Feature] Users can choose to zoom in or out centering on the position of the mouse.
  • [New Feature] Users could customize and save the quick access toolbar.

Improvement

  • Optimize UI.
  • Optimize creation of flowcharts with a novel floating button.
  • Optimize connector lines so that user can connect different shapes from any point on the outline of any shape.
  • Optimize The function of image exporting to support removal of margins.
  • Optimize the library function to support the folding and unfolding of more than one library simultaneously.
  • Improve the speed of searching, opening, saving, and copying files.
  • Improve the compatibility with Visio files.
  • Improve the effects when users click "Fit to Drawing" of a floor plan.
  • Improve the shape data accuracy.
2023

Version 12.2.0

Aug 31

New

  • Where can I use the AI3.0 function?
    • Top bar of the home page: Quickly evoke the AI function.
    • AI function area at the top of the edit page: All AI functions are displayed here.
    • Right panel of the edit page: here you can send your instructions to the AI.
  • AI Diagramming:
    • AI Timeline: Record and display the order in which events occurred.
    • AI Lean Canvas: Helps founders and entrepreneurs better understand their products or services.
    • AI User Portrait Diagram: Understand and grasp your target users more accurately.
    • AI User Story Mapping: Quickly understand the usage scenarios, purpose and experience of user needs.
    • AI SWOT Diagram: With only one click, user can generate a SWOT diagram with a certain subject.
    • AI PEST Diagram: Use AI tool to generate a PEST diagram in a second.
  • AI Analysis:
    • Flowchart Analysis: Flowchart Detection, Flowchart Description, Flowchart Refinement.
    • Gantt Chart Analysis: project overview, project progress, risk identification, project experience sharing.
    • Chart Analysis: data comparison, abnormal identification, summary summary, trend prediction.
    • Organization Chart Analysis: Organizational Analysis, Organizational Diagnosis.
  • AI Q&A:
    • Continued Conversation: After opening continued coversation, AI will remember the previous chat records.
    • Text Generated Diagram: The returned text answer supports one-click direct generation of drawings.
  • AI Drawing:
    • AI Drawing: Input a sentence to generate a painting, you can choose from various styles of painting.