Robust and versatile UML diagram drawing tool?

G_Syme · 2007-04-26 16:10:48

Hello, everyone!

At the moment I'm searching for a UML diagram tool. It doesn't need to be able to perform code generation, it just has to be able to draw UML diagrams. I'm a university student and this term we have to manage our first software development project (and I happen to be the project manager ). Because I'm the only Linux user in our team we need a crossplatform UML diagram tool which can draw at least class diagrams, object diagram, use cases diagrams, activity diagrams, state charts, sequence diagrams, to make a long story short, every essential UML diagram type.

So far I've tried the following:

- dia (almost perfect, but because of the connection point system sequence diagrams are almost impossible to draw (lines are never parallel))
- TinyUML (only class/object diagrams supported at the moment, and even these aren't very mature yet)
- bouml (can draw all diagram types we need, but cannot export them as graphic and print (to file) returns only poor results)
- violet (doesn't support activity diagrams)
- argoUML (not very intuitive and mostly confusing, our productivity would probably be too low)

The biggest problem is that we don't have much time to carefully choose an appropriate tool, so I would even consider using proprietary UML-tools, but if I would have to resort to this kind of tool it should at least not require a "register here to use it" AKA "give us all your personal information". At the moment some of my team want to use M$ Visio, which I don't see as an option, because then I would have to force the rest of my team to register, which is entirely against my philosophy.

Does anyone know of a good alternative, preferably open source which is easy to use/learn and doesn't require payment/registration? It should at least run on M$ Windoze (as I won't be able to convert everyone in my team to Linux in this short amount of time ), and if possible also on Linux. Code generation is not needed, just drawing the diagrams and export them to e.g. PNG.

Thanks in advance!

cactus · 2007-04-26 17:33:12

umbrello is another one.

I used to use argo when I was in school..but it was a bit clunky, because like you..i didn't need code generation.

WhiteMagic · 2007-04-27 07:38:22

Last year we had a class on software engineering and the lecturer recommmended us to use the Jude Community Edition. The program wasn't too bad and I think it supports all of the uml types you need.
The hick is you have to register to download it. I know you don't want this but I thought I'd list it anyways.

The other program I used to use when doing more complex UML was Poseidon Community Edition but with the newest version you have to pay to be able to export your diagrams. So that toll while it was great is not realy interesting I think.

Have you looked at UML tools that integrate into Eclipse, like Eclipse - Omondo. I don't know how usable it is as I never used it.

elraymonds · 2013-08-30 09:45:07

I would like to add a online platform independent solution for your list

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jasonwryan · 2013-08-30 09:48:03

Don't do that: necrobumping a 6 year old thread to plug your product: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

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Robust and versatile UML diagram drawing tool?

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