Take the 2-minute tour ×  Writing a commercial proposal, I want
to create a nice graphic showing the clients the architecture I
thought of for their IT network, with servers, network
connections, firewall, load-balancing, etc.  For years I have
been using dia, but I am tired of it because: the results are
not satisfying, very few network elements are available, and
each element's graphic representation is really ugly.  Question:
How to create nice network diagrams?  If a better set of
elements was available for dia, that would be a solution.
share|improve this question  13 Answers 13  up vote 7 down vote
accepted  Inkscape is all you need. For additional clip art
graphics ('elements'), use openclipart.org. OpenClipart is
actually built into Inkscape these days. There's really no need
to resort to non-free apps.  share|improve this answer I
switched from Cacoo to Inkscape+OpenClipart. –  Nicolas Raoul
Jun 20 '13 at 7:18  I decided to move my diagrams to the cloud
after I saw Cacoo. It's a very intuitive tool,