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I haven't been able to draw anything useful on LibreOffice Draw. Where are the different shapes to make diagrams? All I can find are basic shapes that I would find on Microsoft Word (squares, circles, stars, arrows, etc). Will I be able to make more elaborate diagrams like a data flow diagram or a basic UML diagram?

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If you're after a set of consistently styled isometric network equipment shapes (similar to the Visio ones) try these: http://www.vrt.com.au/downloads/vrt-network-equipment (Creative Commons licensed, in the Fedora repos as and RPM as well).

Now also added to extensions.libreoffice.org and extensions.openoffice.org

Sample of shapes

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    After installing the extension, to actually use it, you need to go to the "Gallery" tab in the "Sidebar Deck" and look for categories that start with "VRT".
    – Michael Mandel
    Mar 7, 2016 at 21:12
  • I came here exactly for @MichaelMandel 's comment.
    – sjas
    Jul 11, 2016 at 13:53
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LibreOffice is a general-purpose drawing application and rather unsuited for diagramming and scientific drawing. It only -- as you have already seen -- provides basic shapes.

For diagramming, GNU Dia is an excellent tool, but there are many other great programmes around.

EDIT: I also want to mention yEd: it scales very well to big graphs and can be run via Java WebStart. It has some really cool features.

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  • Too bad to know that LibreOffice Draw won't do anything that is beyond basic shapes... that may be the reason why there isn't even a tag "libreoffice-draw" on this site. I will check your recommendations. Thank you.
    – Mike G
    Apr 12, 2012 at 16:47
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    "excellent tool" is not exactly what comes to mind when I think about GNU Dia. It's a productivity and user interface nightmare.
    – aef
    Dec 1, 2012 at 15:29
  • @josten Which is named how and can be obtained where?
    – dualed
    Apr 9, 2014 at 9:44
  • @josten Anyway, I meant the aptly named "a gallery" you wrote was existing.
    – dualed
    Apr 9, 2014 at 13:20
  • @josten "there is a gallery that provides more than just 'basic shapes'" -- That is untrue. The shape palette is not in any way comparable with tools like MS Visio.
    – summentier
    Nov 10, 2014 at 14:02
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Just find it in the bottom pane

If you didn't find it, just go to

View > Toolbars > Drawing

That's all..You will get it.

As usual, like Microsoft Office you will get in the respective menus. [If you still remember the old office menus instead of the new Ribbon interface]

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There is https://github.com/sschmidhuber/LibreSymbols. But it provides mostly symbols for electric/logic diagrams. In future it will also support eEPC diagrams. May be that's interesting for you or somebody else.

UML is not on the roadmap.

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  • Good recommendation, by the way it is fully compatible with Libreoffice 6. I only missed digital logic gates
    – Daniel Perez
    Oct 6, 2020 at 7:42
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Well they are here ;) So just add em ;)

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/smart

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