JoshJamesAnthon

They wouldn't! Diagramming is, and should be, free! Vellum is completely free, no restrictions whatsoever.

The chargeable stuff is additional blueprintr functionality; such as AI features, enterprise authentication, live collaboration rooms, and links to 3rd party platforms.

Good tips, thanks !

Hey! This is cool, and actually in the same spirit of my own tool. Not sure if you'd be interested in combining your vision of a repository of architecture models, with my platform (blueprintr.io)?

Seems like a match made in heaven :)

It comes prepacked with Cisco stencils, cloud stencils and a bunch of others!

Press 'S' to open the shape & icon library

Hey! Thanks for the feedback. Out of interest did you test this on mobile, laptop or desktop? In any case I'll look into some additional accessibility settings

We are seeing quite a lot of traffic! Thank you :)

If you would like to try out some of the AI features of Vellum, or Blueprintr in general, email me your username to josh@blueprintr.io and I will give you 2 months of Premium!

You'd be surprised! but yes I agree AI driven diagrams are becoming the norm, which is why we support it too.

AI diagrams are handy for quickly understanding something, but, in my opinion, not good for real documentation, or for anything complex that has a lot of nodes (it gets messy quick).

Nonsense marketing page if that interests you: https://blueprintr.io/about/vellum

I've been in tech for around 15 years now, started at an ISP, then an MSSP, then an enterprise and now a security vendor.

Despite that, my wife says I have been doing the same thing all this time. Drawing diagrams and technical writing. So I consider myself an expert in that area.

Blueprintr is my attempt at making the diagram the document rather than part of the document. Its not just a drawing tool, its designed to be a fully featured documentation hub (knowledge-base, wiki, whatever you want to call it).

What's actually different from the drawing tools I've used: - Shapes are clickable - Any shape can open a panel of rich content: notes, runbooks, embedded video, code sandboxes, dashboards etc - Icon packs are pre-included (where I am allowed to do so) - You can connect a cloud account and import what's actually deployed

Again, Blueprintr is more than just a drawing tool, in a nutshell there are 6 primary 'tools' in this toolbox: Blueprints: The primary thing you actually create

Vellum: The first-party diagram editor (YAML based)

Stratum: The thing that pops up when you click a shape

Continuum: The engine that connects to other platforms (AWS, Azure, Solarwinds, Github etc)

Podium: Diagram as slides

Folium: Traditional 3-pane documentation

Atrium: A no-code customizable KB homepage

Please give it a go and let me know what you think!