How to migrate from Lucidchart to Visio

I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting a webinar on Thursday 10th October 2024 where I will be demonstrating how to convert many types of diagrams from Lucidchart to Visio, and keep their smartness. Over the 30 years that I have been using and developing solutions with Visio, I have seen many imitators come and go. Lucidchart, however, has carved out a niche over the years because it is available on Macs, whereas Visio only relatively recently became available in the web browser. Now that Microsoft provide a version of Visio as part of Microsoft 365, and more capable web versions for a subscription that is less than the equivalent Lucidchart cost. Moreover, Microsoft Visio Plan 2 has the ever popular Windows desktop edition that has many more features and can be used as a design studio for diagrams to be used in the web editions.

The following examples are conversions from Lucidchart to Visio Plan 1.

Lucidchart does provide an export to Visio, but perhaps quite understandably, it is incomplete and does not provide the equivalent features in Visio. I have been collaborating with fellow MVPs at SohoDragon and ShareVisual to create a toolset that maintains the smartness. This can help organisations either maintain a mixed environment or migrate many diagrams en masse.

Sign up for the webinar here : Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

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