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You can open Visio files on a Mac using Lucidchart since it's web-based. It imports.vsd and.vdx files from Visio. It imports.vsd and.vdx files from Visio. You can get a read-only view of the Visio files for free; if you want to edit them, then you can use a 14-day free trial or subscribe.

VSD Viewer Mac is a tool designed to support the use of the Visio documents by Mac OS X users. VSD Viewer supports binary VSD 2000-2013, and XML-based VDX/VSDX document formats. VSD Viewer Mac opens the file directly on a computer without conversion on external Web Servers. VSD Viewer for Mac processes original objects' fills, lines and text the same way as they are displayed by MS Visio. All the line arrows and tabulated texts will be also displayed the way they are in Visio. Text subscript and superscript are processed as well as dimension and state objects. Combination of VSD Viewer for Mac and VSD Viewer for iOS is recommended for distributed teams collaborating on multi-platform environment, in order to support the extensive communication capabilities. VSD Viewer has a stunning set of features that improves basic viewing function. Firstly, it enables layers switching even hidden ones, viewer displays only that layers you choose from the drawings menu-bar. In the menu-bar it is also possible to navigate all the document's pages. Shape data is a special array to safe hidden objects' properties, such arrays are widely used in many various types of professional drawings. Simply enable 'Shape Data Displaying' mode and objects that have this properties will be displayedVSD Viewer - professional Visio Drawings viewer for Mac. Preview, navigate, switch LAYERS visibility, preview Shape Data, print, save to PDF, and share MS Visio drawings on your Macs. VSD Viewer opens documents of ALL Visio drawing formats - binary VSD 2000-2013, and XML-based VDX/VSDX. VSD Viewer allows you to save your drawings to Adobe PDF for further sharing. By using VSD Viewer you can freely distribute Visio drawings and diagrams to team members, partners and customers. It's particularly useful for workgroups that need to collaborate their visual documentation in a multi-platform environment.

What do you need to know about free software?

This article is written intended to guide you how to Install Microsoft Visio Mac / MacBook Pro / MacBook Air running OS X El Capitan.

One program that missing when using MacBook is there is no Microsoft Visio for Mac. Although Microsoft has been officially releasing Microsoft Office (e.g Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for Mac, Microsoft still does not release Visio for Mac, at least until now.

Since I work as a network administrator, Microsoft Visio is very important for me to draw network diagram / topology. Although there are many Visio alternatives for Mac such ConceptDraw, LucidChart, SmartDraw, or OmniGraffle according to my opinion they can not replace Visio. It is the best because of its simplicity and easy to use. Another reason is I am already familiar with Visio when running Windows and also already bought the software license so buying another program for this purpose is wasting money.

In this article I will not talk about which software is better. I want to show you how to install Microsoft Visio on Mac running OS X El Capitan on top of Wine, thanks to WineHQ team for making this great tool. It should be applicable on previous version of OS X such as OS X Yosemite, OS X Mavericks, and Mac OS X Mountain Lion.

Lets start with the installation process

Windows programs can be run on OS X, Linux and BSD via WINE (Windows Emulator) so first we need to install wine and winetricks.

We can install wine and winetricks packages using Homebrew, follow this post how to install Wine on OS X.

Define Visio Home directory

Although it is not necessary, it is better to set environment folder for Visio. We will set it under $HOME/.vision2007. Inside your $HOME directory (/Users/your_username), create .visio2007 directory.

Perform Wine initialisation and setup of WINEPREFIX in .visio2007

We need several packages be installed to run Visio 2007. Those packages are gdiplus, msxml6, dotnet20, riched20, and corefonts. Install them using winetricks as follows:

Capture example of installing .Net Framework (dotnet20) is as in image below:

After installing the packages above, then run Wine configuration editor (winecfg)

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In Wine configuration, under Libraries tab make sure that gdiplus, msxml6, riched20 are set to native. See image below!

Run Visio setup installation

Once the above dependency packages installed and configured, we are ready to run the installation.

After the installation completed and successful, you can run Visio using command below:

Visio should be running well without any problem.

Create visio script

To make it easier to run Visio using Terminal, create a script named as ‘visio’.

Copy and paste the following command into the visio script. Change the ‘your-username’ accordingly with yours.

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Make it executable and then move it into $PATH

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To run Visio, just type visio in Terminal.