Community news and announcements

Hi everyone! We’ve all been there: You want the automatic, data-driven power of the Cloud Accelerator, but you also need the flexible, freeform canvas of Lucidchart to build out your project proposals and system maps.  Until now, those two worlds lived in separate products. If you wanted that "auto-magic" cloud visualization, you had to jump straight into the accelerator, separating your infrastructure data from the rest of your documentation.  We’re excited to announce cloud frames in Lucidchart. Think of a cloud frame as a "smart container" that brings the automatic visualization power of the Cloud Accelerator directly onto your Lucidchart canvas.

Stop writing code just to get your document data! Our new JSON Export feature gives you the power of an API without the technical overhead. You can now download a full blueprint of any Lucid document as a JSON file directly from the file menu in your workspace.  Whether you're conducting an audit or feeding data into a custom database, you now have instant access to your document's underlying structure.What’s New?You can now export any Lucid document as a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) file. This provides a complete, text-based blueprint of your document that you can download in seconds.

In our second Lately @ Lucid webinar of 2026, we explored how to build plans that more easily adapt to change. If you’ve ever spent weeks crafting the "perfect" plan, only for stakeholder priorities to change or the market to shift and your plan to become obsolete, this webinar is for you! You can’t perfectly predict exactly what will happen within your company or industry, so you need easily adaptable plans.  This post is a roundup of Lucid features that can help you solve three of the biggest hurdles to planning: adaptability, alignment, and visibility. Let’s get into it! ⏬ Capacity planningVisualize team

If you’ve been using the diagram as code with Mermaid feature in Lucidchart, you know the routine: type in your code, move your mouse, select “Generate” or “Update”, and repeat. We’re excited to announce an update to this workflow!Instead of manually updating your diagram, your diagrams will automatically update as you write your mermaid code. Now it’s easier than ever to build and iterate on complex diagrams without breaking your concentration.What’s changing?The ‘Generate’ button and ‘Update’ buttons have been removed.

🌟 Hello Community! 🌟If you have been using Lucid a lot lately and finding smart ways to make it work for your team, this one’s for you. We have put together a Lucid Power User Kit for all our power users, Admins, Legends, and anyone who wants to take the lead and help their peers get more out of Lucid! Many of you are already the go-to person when it comes to boards

We’re excited to spotlight one of the members of our Lucid Legend program: ​@JMC 🎉. James Croftson is a Technical Manager and Founding Director in the Energy / Engineering industries. We want to highlight a few specific things that make James “legendary!”🌟James has earned 3 badges and earned over 300 points in the Lucid Legends program! James is a truly active Legend who consistently enriches our seminars and working sessions by sharing his technical expertise, offering insightful feedback, and collaborating seamlessly with his peers. In 2010, James sea-kayaked 3500km around the coast of mainland Britain in just under 20 weeks. Having already cycled east-coa

 We’ve all been there: You’re in the middle of a deep-work session, and you need to remember the specific steps of a project kickoff or find that one brainstorm board from three months ago. You stop, open a new tab, dig through folders, and—poof—your focus is gone.We’re excited to announce the Lucid Connector for Claude, a new tool for anyone looking to streamline their daily workflow. Here’s how it helps you streamline your workflow: Locate & summarize document

  We are thrilled to unveil this new integration, which acts as a digital bridge between the visual intelligence of Lucid and the conversational power of ChatGPT. By merging these two worlds, you can now locate documents, summarize content, distribute documentation, and generate diagrams without ever leaving your chat, effectively removing the friction between an AI conversation and a finished visual document.Connect to ChatGPT here

Introducing the folder owner role for the Process Accelerator! 🎉 Managing a large repository of documentation can be a heavy lift for a single person. To help you scale and ensure the right eyes are on your documents, we’ve introduced a new layer of ownership: folder owners.What is a folder owner?A folder owner is a user who manages and approves documents in their assigned folder or subfolder in a repository. Think of them as the ‘subject matter expert’ for items in their specific folder. How is a folder owner different from a repository owner? How do approval requests differ?

Announced during the October 1st Lately @ Lucid webinar, Lucid AI builds on our intelligent work acceleration platform to empower teams to create, collaborate, and maximize efficiency. To access Lucid AI, open a Lucidchart document and navigate to the very top of the left-hand panel to open the chat.  From within the Lucid AI chat, type in your prompt and start creating! Here are a few things that Lucid AI can help you with: Create a diagram: Supported diagram types include flowcharts, ERDs, mind maps, and more. Brainstorm

Thank you for joining the March Lately @ Lucid webinar! In our first of the three-part Lately @ Lucid webinar series, we highlighted AI features across the Lucid platform to help you move from blank canvas to creation faster.If you missed it, catch the webinar here!In this post, we’re diving into the highlights of what’s new ⏬ Lucid AI Entry Point

Hey Lucid Community!  As a new product manager here at Lucid, I’ve quickly learned that the 'perfect' leadership board is never actually finished. Every time I need to add just one more section for team alignment, I end up in a manual 'spatial Tetris' battle, moving every single element just to create a little breathing room. Does anyone else find themselves spending more time rearranging than actually building? Enter: Nudging 🎉 We built Nudging to act like a "snowplow" for your canvas. Instead of manually rearranging your content to make new space to work with, your containers now do the heavy lifting for you. Here’s how it works: You can toggle Nudging on by dragging a container or frame

Hey Lucid Community!We have seen some truly impressive customer diagrams here at Lucid.  There’s the highly technical business architectures and processes, but also (my favorite) using lucid to map out narrative themes and plot points in theater productions or quest trees for homebrewed RPGs.Common to all of these:  "Visual Overload" –  when you share a massive, complex board with a collaborator who just needs the high-level summary. We’ve all been there: either you spend hours creating a "simplified" duplicate version, or you hop on a call and spend 10 minutes saying, "Ignore this part for now..."Enter: Collapse and Expand 🎉  

We are excited to announce that new versions of the VPAT for Lucidchart and Lucidspark are now available at lucid.co/accessibility. Both the Lucidchart VPAT and Lucidspark VPAT are publicly viewable on our website. Lucid is committed to creating products that are accessible and user-friendly for everyone. Some of the changes to the latest VPATs include:Improved Bypass Block Hotkeys to jump between the canvas and the UI Improved keyboard navigation patterns  For a complete list of FAQ’s, please visit this

Assisted layout helps to arrange content within Lucid organizers- including swimlanes, frames and all container types. This feature automatically aligns shapes to create a clean, presentable workspace. Assisted layout is also available with AI-generated content, making brainstorming and board organization easy and efficient. What’s new this Lately @ Lucid? Let’s take a look at some of the newest assisted lay

Swimlanes are a key part of many common diagrams, especially process and flow diagrams- helping to organize steps by team, role, or system.Manually creating these swimlanes can be time-consuming and tedious. You’ve asked for AI to handle this structure automatically, and we’ve listened. We’re happy to announce you can now generate diagrams with swimlanes in Lucid AI! ✨ What’s available today?Lucid AI can now automatically generate swimlanes when creating diagrams. If your prompt includes lanes–or mentions teams, roles, or systems that imply lanes– Lucid AI will add them for you.For now, swimlanes are generated in black and white.What’s coming n

We are excited to announce a powerful new update to the Process Accelerator, restricted repositories! 🎉Some processes, such as sensitive HR workflows, internal financial audits, or specialized project handbooks, require a bit more privacy. With restricted repositories, you can now maintain a single source of truth for your team’s most sensitive documentation without sharing it with your entire organization.  What is a restricted repository? A

You may have noticed some new looks to Lucid’s in-editor UI! Let’s take a look at what’s new. ⤵️ File menu in Lucidchart The file menu in Lucidchart has been consolidated. To access the menu options, you can select the hamburger icon to the right of the board title and a vertical drop-down menu will appear. All of the menu options that were previously across the top of Lucidchart are now accessible via the dropdown. Lucidchart menuTo learn more about the menu bar, check out the

Manually creating ERDs and exporting diagram updates can be tedious and time-consuming. We’re excited to announce a few new enhancements to make this process more efficient! Let’s dive into what’s new! ⏩ Newly supported databases for ERD import and export Lucid has expanded ERD import and export to support Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, Azure SQL Database, and Google BigQuery. Quickly import database schemas to visualize tabl

As of March 5th, 2025, the airfocus Chrome extension is no longer active.

Tired of recreating your diagrams or whiteboards? Comak now integrates with Lucidchart to convert your hand-drawn diagrams into modifiable files. Here's how it works:Take a photo of your hand-drawn diagram on any whiteboard or piece of paper. Upload to Comak to generate an editable diagram you can send to Lucidchart. Use Lucidchart to refine your diagram, collaborate, and share with your team.No more manual redrawing. No mo

You have heard a lot of exciting feature updates from Lucid recently (and if you missed any of the buzz, make sure to take a look at our Lately @ Lucid announcement!). But amid the hype of Lucid AI, assisted layout, and updates to our accelerators, we didn’t want to forget about the small but impactful updates our team has released to make your experience in the core Lucid Suite more delightful.Check out the most recent upda

Announced during the Lately @ Lucid webinar on April 3rd, the Cloud Accelerator is now live and available for purchase by Enterprise-level accounts! For more information, check out the Cloud Accelerator overview help center article. In this post, we’ll be going over some use case examples.Engineering teams know all to

There are many exciting updates here at Lucid since the Lately @ Lucid webinar! Announced on April 3rd, the Agility Accelerator and Cloud Accelerator are now available for Enterprise customers. These new accelerators come along with changes to our home page and how to navigate to