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Garfield M
February 21, 2023
Seeking Feedback

Export Lucidchart diagrams to Mermaid code

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  • February 21, 2023
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I use lucidchart for modelling a lot at work and find it really great for creating and managing lots of models.

However my work has a requirement to use code based tools - i.e. diagramming tools that enable us to use the code in markdown files like plantuml or mermaid.

It would be great if Lucid Chart supported exporting to an industry or defacto standard like mermaid.

Pinned Reply By Ethan

Hi everyone! 

I’m a product manager on a team that’s working on our Mermaid feature within Lucidchart.

I’d like to hear more of your Mermaid feedback on this Lucid Community Post. Also, I’d love to chat directly with you more about how you’d like to use Mermaid in Lucid! Email me at egrundvig@lucidchart.com and we’ll get some time set up!

Comments

February 16, 2025

Mermaid export serves two key purposes:

  1. Enable diagram inclusion in markdown documentation (README files)
  2. Most importantly, facilitate diagram integration with Large Language Models (LLMs)

The ability to export to Mermaid would transform Lucidchart from a one-off executive slide diagraming tool into an integral part of the LLM-assisted design process. While I maintain a Lucidchart subscription, I currently have to use alternative tools that provide Mermaid export to effectively collaborate with LLMs.This brings into question the use of dollars for a LucidChart subscription as I don’t make many executive slides at the moment and mermaid is more critical.

Mermaid is being used like an LLM language to communicate process and build contexts.

Ambar D
Lucid community team
February 18, 2025

Hi ​@Lord QuayQuay, thank you for adding your feedback to this thread and showing support for this feature. I can see how this feature would be beneficial and hope it is implemented. The product development team will continually review feedback within this space, so thank you for leaving your thoughts here.

Chance K
April 1, 2025

This would be a huge feature for every one of the users within my company to use. It would be great to leverage created diagrams to export to Mermaid and then use AI based tools to create test cases off of that export.

Ambar D
Lucid community team
April 3, 2025
The following idea has been merged into this idea:

All the votes have been transferred into this idea.
Ambar D
Lucid community team
April 3, 2025

Hi ​@Chance K, thank you so much for leaving your feedback here and showing your support for this feature! 

April 22, 2025

I am interested in this functionality, as well. For the same reason as ​@Dylan mentioned above. 

Ambar D
Lucid community team
April 25, 2025

Thank you ​@cvonredapt for adding your comment to this thread! If you haven’t already, I also recommend upvoting this post to show your support for this idea. This helps our product team accurately gauge the popularity of this request.

For more information on how we handle feedback, I recommend checking out this post:

 

April 28, 2025

Upvoted on the other mermaid-specific, but I’d even happily take an export to code that is my existing doc and could be imported by someone else. I have to transition docs between businesses/teams that don’t share lucid accounts quite often.

There’s ability to transfer entirely, but lots of times it involves creating a duplicate + cutting it down to then share. If there was a way to generate it for a selected list of objects / specific sheet and just get it as SCM friendly code, that’d be wicked awesome.

Ambar D
Lucid community team
April 30, 2025

Thanks so much ​@dwelch2344 for upvoting and adding your comment with feedback here too! This sort of feedback is incredibly helpful to our product teams as they continue to research product enhancements and new features. 

June 16, 2025

Waiting for this