Importing Visio drawings

File > Import a package, .pml, BPMN or Visio…, or drop a .vsdx file on the dashboard. Each page with a flow on it becomes a process.

Steps, sub-processes, decisions, start and end shapes, swimlanes and connectors come across. Connector text becomes the line’s label, and shape data becomes properties (owner, description, duration, cost). Systems are linked to your Applications register by name; ones it doesn’t have become notes and are listed. Anything else becomes a note.
Off-page references become hand-offs, linked when the page they point to is in the same file.
If the drawing uses stencil shapes Twiggy doesn’t know (a company stencil), it asks what each one is, with a guess. Tick Remember and the next drawing from that stencil imports straight away. Admins can change or forget these in Administration > Imports.
A step drawn twice in a lane to avoid crossing lines becomes one step. Repeated lines are merged, and a loose connector end joins the nearest shape.
Twiggy lays the flow out itself, so positions, colours and fonts aren’t kept. The report lists everything that was simplified or left out.

Save older .vsd files as .vsdx in Visio first. Free workspaces get 3 BPMN or Visio imports or exports in total; paid plans have no limit.

More on getting started

Try it in the free demo, or contact us.