The Omni Group - OmniGraffle

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Here we've collected some resources to help you use OmniGraffle more efficiently - stencils to add to your drawing tools, AppleScripts, and articles on ways people are using OmniGraffle. If you want to send in your own creations, email us!

To download a stencil or script click on the name of the extra and follow the installation instructions at the bottom of this page.

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OmniGraffle Walkthroughs

81 kiB

OmniGraffle Basics and Tools Walkthroughs

If you're a new OmniGraffle user or just new to using OmniGraffle, these walkthrough files will acquaint you with the basic principles of how diagramming works in OmniGraffle, as well as put you through the paces of how the drawing tools work, including the new Bezier Pen Tool, Magnet Tool, the improved Style Brush and more.

Requirements: OmniGraffle or OmniGraffle Professional (version 4 or above). Mac OS X 10.3.9 "Panther" or later.

Updated January 25, 2006

Sample OmniGraffle Documents

3.5 MiB

OmniGraffle Sample Documents

OmniGraffle is capable of creating a wide variety of document types, ranging from a map of the solar system to phylogenetic trees to web color charts to the ever-popular "Very Important Process" flowchart. These samples are included in this download, showcasing just how snazzy and elegant OmniGraffle can make your documents look, as well as flexing some AppleScript muscles in case you have to map out gravitational forces or navigate your way through the dangers of the Krebs Cycle.

Requirements: OmniGraffle or OmniGraffle Professional (version 4 or above). Mac OS X 10.3.9 "Panther" or later.

Updated January 25, 2006

Address Book Chart Builder

1.5 MiB

Address Book Chart Builder 1.0

This add-on demonstrates the interactions possible using AppleScript with OmniGraffle and the new Address Book in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Scripts are included for building family trees, org charts, and relationships in a free-form chart. Where possible, pictures and email addresses from Address Book are also included in the resulting OmniGraffle document.

Requirements: OmniGraffle 3.02 or OmniGraffle Professional 3.02. Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" (which includes Address Book 3.1).

Updated July 13, 2006

iTunes CD Cover

1.3 MiB

Create an iTunes CD Cover 1.0.1

This add-on contains templates for OmniGraffle and AppleScripts for iTunes. Put together a playlist for burning to CD in iTunes, pick and run a script, and within moments you'll have a cover design built in OmniGraffle, complete with album art. The templates let you produce inserts for standard or thin CD jewel cases, to be printed on Avery Labels #5931 or #8931 pre-cut stock, or on plain paper you can cut and fold yourself.

Requirements: OmniGraffle 3.02 or OmniGraffle Professional 3.02. iTunes 4.01 or later

Updated October 15, 2003

Gardening

2.5 MiB

Got a green thumb? You should probably get that checked out, you know. But if it turns out you aren't a flesh eating zombie, maybe you're horticulturally inclined and a prime candidate for enjoying the many, many (well "several") uses of our new Garden Stencil.

Note: This file is in .gstencil format for use with OmniGraffle 3.0 or later. If you'd like to use this as a palette for OmniGraffle 2.x please change the extension of the stencil from .gstencil to .graffle and then follow the instructions at the bottom of this page.

Cash Flow

858 kiB

This whimsical stencil helps you track the flow of your riches - from cash register to gold ingots. A little short this month? That's okay, we've even included a piggy bank for emergency breaking purposes.

Toy Building Bricks

79 kiB

We spend all day creating all sorts of things with Graffle; org charts, graphs, maps and more. Somewhere along the way we discovered that in your spare time it can also be used to create a great looking boat, a house, or a spaceship! In the interest of good, clean fun the Toy Building Bricks stencil was born. Download it today and re-live a bit of your youth without having to clean it all up when you're done.

Maps

1.6 MiB

While OmniGraffle probably isn't a tool for professional cartographers, we've found it can be quite useful for making informal maps and directions.

Electronics

15 kiB

Gone are the days of designing orbital mind-control lasers with pen and paper, my friend. With this new stencil for OmniGraffle, you'll get presentable circuit designs every time. (Functionality not guaranteed.) No more excuses from the henchmen!

Periodic Table

28 kiB

Tired of those bland looking chemical reactions diagrams? Well now you can use OmniGraffle's Periodic Table stencil to make spectacular looking diagrams instead. Each element in the table has a magnet count equivalent to its valence so you can easily create bonds between elements. This stencil contains elements 1 through 117, each with identifying colors.

OmniGraffle 5 Keyboard Shortcuts

Nick Finck over at Blue Flavor took the keyboard shortcuts document that comes bundled in OmniGraffle (and can be found in the Help Menu) and compacted it into a printable "cheat sheet", in case you'd like to have a hard copy to reference whilst using OmniGraffle. Neat!

News Reader

[Author's Page]

Jesse Shanks has posted an article laying out how he used AppleScript to turn OmniGraffle into a news reader - a download link to the script is included.

Generate Monte Carlo Simulator

[Author's Page]

It's a car, it's a casino, it's that city in the small principality south of France! Actually, it's not. Christian Fries has made a cool AppleScript to generate a Monte Carlo simulation, which provides approximate solutions to a variety of mathematical problems by performing statistical sampling experiments on a computer.

CONSORT Statement Template

609 kiB

Ronán Conroy has created this OmniGraffle template based on the CONSORT guidelines, showing some useful examples of how the template can be used to report clinical trials of different sorts. Thanks go out to Dr. David Moher of the CONSORT group for permission to reproduce the diagram.

The template has two layers. The second layer is non-printing, and contains text which is in the CONSORT template but which is not used in actual clinical trial reporting. It also contains the URL from which the CONSORT statement can be downloaded.

Origami

[Author's Page]

Seth Friedman has created a unique set of OmniGraffle documents that lay out the handy lines to create origami creations such as the Black Skimmer, Click Beetle, Dove and more.

Peter McMaster's AppleScripts

[Author's Page]

Pie charts, bar charts, spirals, arcs, pointed stars, all scripted out by Peter McMaster (whose surname is becoming more and more appropriate), and there's also a page there for a regular polygons stencil, which is, well, regular. Well, not everything can be special (not to say that the AppleScripts are irregular, it's just that -- well, there's a joke in there somewhere).

Wireframe and Page Descriptions

Garrett Dimon has taken his wireframe and page description templates from Visio and created OmniGraffle versions, in a package that includes both OmniGraffle templates and stencils.

World Maps

[Author's Page]

Apparently Canada simply wasn't large enough a project, so John Oram took on the entire world. A set of OmniGraffle documents with all the major geographic areas done up, replete with country names in English as well as their native language, all set to scale.

Grittle

[Author's Page]

Fraser Speirs took some time and care to make a Ruby script that diagrams out Git repositories. The script itself and example can be found not ironically at GitHub. Links are to the left over there.

Stencil Installation Instructions

Click the icon above of the stencil you wish to download.
Wait until the download is complete. If your web browser and system are properly configured, Disk Copy should automatically launch and mount the disk image as a volume in the Finder and you should see a new window containing an OmniGraffle document on your desktop.
To make the stencil easily accessible when running OmniGraffle, put it your Library/Application Support/OmniGraffle/Stencils/ folder (within either the top-level Library folder or your user Library folder). See OmniGraffle's online Help for more information.

Note: Under versions of OmniGraffle prior to 3.0 Stencils were called Palettes. If you're running OmniGraffle 2.x you will need to place these files in /Library/Application Support/OmniGraffle/Palettes/.