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Visio import has been the elephant in the corner of our room for a while. We are super excited to announce that Creately now supports importing and editing of Visio diagrams and Stencils.

This means that you can easily transition your legacy work into Creately and start collaborating and working effectively right away. Imported Visio diagrams become Creately shapes that you can reuse, edit and change as you please.

We’ve been working on this for a while, painstakingly working through the MS Visio file formats, testing thousands and thousands of Visio diagrams and shapes making sure that things go really well for all of our customers from the get go. While we’ve tried our best to cover all possible scenarios, there may be the occasional file that trips up Creately, so do let us know if you run into any issues.

Importing Visio files is quite straight forward

• Log in to Creately and go to the app
• Create a new document or open an existing one
• Click import and in the drop down select “Import Visio File“
• Choose a Visio file from your computer or give a web location
• Click import and wait for the magic to happen

At the moment we support importing of .vdx (diagrams), .vtx (Visio templates), .vsx (Visio stencils)  and SVG files.

Support for other Visio file types like .vsdx and .vssx will be added to Visio import in the near future. For the moment you can open them in Visio, save them as .vdx or .vsx and import them to Creately.

Easily import Visio files into Creately

Imported Visio diagrams shapes appear in the left side panel of Creately allowing you to reuse the same shapes inside the diagram diagram to edit and improve the imported Visio document.

Your Thoughts on the Visio Import?

This is a major milestone for us and we wont your feedback to make it even better. So start importing your Visio files to Creately and let us know what you think of the process.

Did the diagrams come out correctly? Had trouble with the import process? Absolutely Loved it? Your feedback is what keeps us going and help us improve. So drop a mail to support@creately.com and let us know what you think.

We are really excited to open our doors to countless Visio users previously trapped in the file format. We’d love to see what you create with Creately!

This posts was originally published at Creately blog. Click Introducing Microsoft Visio Import !!! to visit the blog post. Visit the Creately website to learn more about Online Diagramming Tools.

Of the 51 dishwashers on Consumer Reports' top picks list, 34 are made by Bosch including four new models that we just added. In our dishwasher tests, all four earned excellent scores for washing and energy efficiency with cycles that are two hours long. And two of them offer a speedier cycle that gets the job done in less time using little water and energy.

The Bosch 800 Plus Series SHX7PT55UC, $1,300, and the Bosch 300 Series DLX SHX53TL5UC, $850, dishwashers feature a "Speed Perfect" cycle that Bosch claims washes the same full, soiled load of dishes you'd put through the normal cycle but up to 25 percent faster, saving 30 minutes. The pricier 800 Plus has other perks such as an adjustable third rack for utensils, hidden controls, a water softener, and cycle status that's projected on the floor. The 300 Series DLX SHX53TL5UC projects a red dot to tell you the machine is running.

Some of the other dishwashers in our tests offer an extra-quick cycle that runs as briefly as 20 to 30 minutes including the Thermador DWHD651JFP, at $2,200 one of the more expensive models in our Ratings. But cycles like that are intended for small, lightly soiled loads, not the typical post-dinner batch of dishes, glasses, utensils and pots for which you'd run a normal or Speed Perfect cycle.

The other newly recommended Bosch dishwashers include the Bosch 500 Series SHP65T55UC, $900, which has three racks, hidden controls, and a red dot to indicate operation, and the Bosch 800 Series SHE68T55UC, $950, which has a third rack and fully visible controls. While all four were excellent overall, the Bosch 300 Series DLX SHX53TL5UC was a bit noisier than its brand mates.