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Hi Experts,<br />
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Please suggest me some free tool from which I can generate cool architecture diagrams excluding Visio and star-uml.<br />
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Hi Experts,

Please suggest me some free tool from which I can generate cool architecture diagrams excluding Visio and star-uml.

 

Tool for creating effective/colorful architecture diagrams

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