I have a Mermaid code from ChatGPT for a flowchart. How do you transform that code to a diagram in Lucidchart?

Hi Nicole thanks for your post! Unfortunately Lucidchart doesn't directly support diagram builds from Mermaid. If you're able to use UML markup instead I would recommend our UML markup tool which will automatically generate a sequence diagram based on your input. I hope this helps! If you'd like to share more detail about your use case for Mermaid specifically we'd love to hear your feedback in this thread. 

Hi @Nicole L!  Have you seen our recently released Lucid GPT feature? Check it out here: https://help.lucid.co/hc/en-us/articles/18974741074708-Create-AI-generated-diagrams-using-the-Lucid-GPT

In addition, I am on the product team here at Lucid and am actively investigating some features that may further help your use case. If you’d be interested in meeting with me to discuss, I’d love to learn from you! Let me know if you’re up for it and we can send more info to the email associated with your account. Thanks!

Thanks @Darbie! This is fantastic.

I successfully create a sequence diagram using mermaid code syntax. I however cannot use this in google docs using lucid extension. I exported to jpeg and used for now. Is there any timeline to make lucid extension work too?

Hi @Tej, 

Currently we don’t have a timeline for Mermaid code to be available in the Google docs extension. 

However,  we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products, we invite you to share your idea in our Product Feedback section. To do this please first search the community (with the filter Topic Type = Idea) to see if it’s already been submitted. If so, please add any additional details you’d like and upvote the request - this consolidation helps to refine feedback and properly capture the popularity of the request.

If no one has submitted this idea yet, please create one of your own and be sure to include details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. This will also allow other users with similar requests to discover and upvote it, then add details of their own.

Finally, for more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

I am excited to share that Lucid has released the ability to create a diagram using mermaid code syntax! We support 8 different diagram types including: flowchart, sequence, class, state, C4, gantt, and entity relationship diagrams. Try it out for yourself or learn more here! 

 

I wanted to convert a mermaid diagram into a Lucid Diagram and found your post to do this via ChatGPT Lucid Agent.  This is a bit clunky, but it works!  Much better than having to start from scratch and interpret mermaid diagrams by hand.   Hopefully the Lucid GPT agent will be integrated into the Lucid native AI interface.  Thanks for the tip!!

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-bHwQjRxeg-lucid

​@Peter Meusburger, Thank you for sharing that!

I’ve found it very useful to use an AI to create a rough-draft diagram with Mermaid syntax. I was pleased to see that Mermaid support was added to Lucid, but it’s not exactly what I expected. I was hoping that I could import the Mermaid diagram as a standard Lucid chart, so that I could drag elements around, resize, etc., to make it look more professional. I would be completely OK with no longer being able to edit the original Mermaid code, or losing some styling -- it would not need to be an exact representation.

Hi ​@jmesterh 

Thanks for contributing to this thread! 

You are able to use AI to generate Mermaid code to create a diagram in Lucidchart, however you are not able to change styling utilizing this feature in Lucidchart. Unfortunately, this isn’t currently supported in Lucid, but we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. Please first search the Product Feedback section of this community (with the filter Topic Type = Idea) to see if it’s already been submitted. If so, please add any additional details you’d like and upvote the request - this consolidation helps to refine feedback and properly capture the popularity of the request. If no one has submitted this idea yet, please create one of your own and be sure to include details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. This will also allow other users with similar requests to discover and upvote it, then add details of their own.

As a workaround, if you are wanting to create a sequence diagram, you can utilize UML markup to generate a diagram in Lucidchart. Check out the steps to use UML markup in our Create a sequence diagram with UML markup in Lucidchart article. Once you have created the diagram, you are able to resize and edit styling of the diagram in Lucidchart. Read this section from the aforementioned article for more information. 

I’d like to edit a mermaid diagram like a normal Lucid diagram, move blocks and connectors around, add text, etc.. 

I have to use ChatGPT uses draw.io to convert Mermaid to XML, then import that XML document to Lucid, then open and edit that messy diagram.

Can you add a feature to automatically convert mermaid to lucid and make the output appear similar to the original?

Hi ​@Bill.Stout ,

Thanks for sharing your experience and request! At this time, Mermaid diagrams created in Lucid can’t be fully converted into editable Lucid objects in the way you described. I completely understand how valuable it would be to bring in your Mermaid code and then be able to move shapes around, adjust connectors, and style the diagram just like a native Lucid chart.

We’re very interested in this feedback as we continue to improve our diagram-as-code features. I recommend adding your idea in our Product Feedback section of the community (with the Topic Type = Idea). If a similar request is already there, please upvote it and add your details. This helps our product team track interest and prioritize improvements.

In the meantime, the draw.io XML import is a helpful workaround, though we know it isn’t ideal. Thank you again for raising this, and please keep the feedback coming!

I went ahead and submitted an idea for this: