Now to be fair Visio has far more symbols and UML support which is characteristic of a MS product. I find I have to fight too many automatic 'features' in Visio just to get my diagrams to look right. The same would have taken 2 hours in Visio.
I created an entire static structure for my app in about an hour. The grid spacing is actually reasonable as opposed to MS where at times you think there is a grid but often you are just not sure b/c the snap is terrible. The connectors are far smarter than the ones in Visio and it's much easier to line items up. So I open it up 's a piece of cake to use. It really got hammered by several people. Most of them faired well except for Draw. Using a combination of tools you can make any shape you desire.Before downloading OpenOffice I read some reviews of the various components. A dialog will open that will be very helpful in changing the attributes of the shape. Right click on the object then choose Area. Notice the green little boxes at the "corners" of the shape, these are called handles and allow you to resize the shape bigger or smaller. In the functions area choose category Drawing. Goto the toolbar you have just created and right click on it and choose Customise. Right click on any toolbar and then choose configure.
MS Word costs hundreds of dollars while is free and open source. The reason for this is because there is a similar tutorial for Microsoft Word. Instead you will be shown how to use the drawing tools that come with Writer.
There are several important free vector graphics programs about that allow you to do very fancy things but this tutorial is not going to use them. This tutorial aims to instruct a beginner on the basic principles of vector graphics.
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