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Omnigraffle is by far my favorite, unfortunately only available on Mac OSX. I use Windows more lately and struggled to find a comparable offering. Then discovered Lucidchart https://www.lucidchart.com/ and have grown to enjoy it quite a lot. It offers common Cisco and AWS networking icons, and has some nice exporting options and the auto-expanding canvas. There are some quirks but it is cheaper and in my opinion cleaner than Visio.

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I've been trying out Lucidchart, I've been finding it frustrating, albeit the charts do come out looking nice.

Personally I prefer Pencil [0], it suffers from 'another electron app' syndrome, but I've grown to really like it. It's probably predominantly a UX tool but it has more fine control over elements than lucidchart does, plus it's open source.

[0]: http://pencil.evolus.vn/

They even claim to be able to import your existing g infrastructure and diagram it out, however I’ve not yet personally tested this. Lucidchart is pretty good though and has, as you pointed out, the advantage of being platform agnostic.

I do also really like Omnigraffle and that’s my first go to.

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