a good tool for drawing figures and diagrams for thesis and research papers

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I’m looking a good tool for drawing figures and diagrams for thesis and research papers.

According to my findings, it seems like inkscape is a good tool for that purpose. Do you have some better ideas?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 28 '12 at 03:37

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It depends on what sort of diagrams you need, but Dia makes it easy to create various types of flowcharts, graphs, maps, etc.; is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux; and is free.

answered Aug 28 '12 at 03:37

Synetech

+1 for quick reply. Most of my diagrams are related to Artificial Intelligence. – Upul Aug 28 '12 at 03:43

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 28 '12 at 03:41

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I think you can use Dia Diagram Editor it is a free software and you can download it from the link below.

answered Aug 28 '12 at 03:41

Suvasish Sarker

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

Within academia Latex is a very popular authoring tool for documents. A stackexchange site for Latex users is Tex - Stackexchange.

Within Latex a popular tool for making figures is Tikz. A site showing a wide range of Tikz figure is http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/.

One of the examples from the site is shown below: (Source: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/parameterized-plots/)

Figure A

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