Small UML Diagram Tool

#1 01-09-2007, 06:50 PM

I need a small tool that helps me drawing UML notations for classes,
squence diagrams etc.
No roundtrip engineering, just a simple little pen/paper replacement
for annotations, in fact i don't want to use my Viso program or some
other tools because they insists of stupid parameter dialogs whenever i
add for example a method name, or hundert other things.

I tried to install Dia for Windows but it fails with an relocation bug
in libiconv during startup.

#2 01-11-2007, 01:02 PM

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 15:50 -0800, llothar wrote:
> I need a small tool that helps me drawing UML notations for classes,
> squence diagrams etc.
> No roundtrip engineering, just a simple little pen/paper replacement
> for annotations,

UML Studio (www.pragsoft.com) is a small, versatile, tool
for full UML (1.4, I think) and designed for Windows,
good for both drawing and more, if desired.

#3 01-11-2007, 04:08 PM

For windows users, most people use Microsoft visio.
For mac, I would recommend Omnigraffle, just google it, its free and
works great.
regards
Yudi

llothar wrote:
> I need a small tool that helps me drawing UML notations for classes,
> squence diagrams etc.
> No roundtrip engineering, just a simple little pen/paper replacement
> for annotations, in fact i don't want to use my Viso program or some
> other tools because they insists of stupid parameter dialogs whenever i
> add for example a method name, or hundert other things.
>
> I tried to install Dia for Windows but it fails with an relocation bug
> in libiconv during startup.

#4 01-11-2007, 04:24 PM

On Jan 10, 12:50 am, "llothar" <llot...@web.de> wrote:
> I need a small tool that helps me drawing UML notations for classes,
> squence diagrams etc.
> No roundtrip engineering, just a simple little pen/paper replacement
> for annotations, in fact i don't want to use my Viso program or some
> other tools because they insists of stupid parameter dialogs whenever i
> add for example a method name, or hundert other things.
>
> I tried to install Dia for Windows but it fails with an relocation bug
> in libiconv during startup.

maybe you could give bouml a try (http://bouml.free.fr/index.html)
cheers,

-Nicolas

#5 01-11-2007, 11:28 PM

Georg Bauhaus schrieb:

> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 15:50 -0800, llothar wrote:
> > I need a small tool that helps me drawing UML notations for classes,
> > squence diagrams etc.
> > No roundtrip engineering, just a simple little pen/paper replacement
> > for annotations,
>
> UML Studio (www.pragsoft.com) is a small, versatile, tool
> for full UML (1.4, I think) and designed for Windows,
> good for both drawing and more, if desired.

Yes, UML Studio looks very nice.

But i hopped there was something in the less then $100 market. I only
need to draw and maintain a a few diagrams. So the program is overkill
for my purposes.

I tried SmartDraw but this is strange, buggy and extremely slow on an
AthlonX2 4400 :-(

#6 01-13-2007, 12:32 PM

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 20:28 -0800, llothar wrote:

> Yes, UML Studio looks very nice.
>
> But i hopped there was something in the less then $100 market. I only
> need to draw and maintain a a few diagrams. So the program is overkill
> for my purposes.

I also recall Metamill, good shareware IIRC, and Sparx Systems
Something, originally from Australia (the latter had a good UML
tutorial, too.)

#7 01-13-2007, 09:13 PM

Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 20:28 -0800, llothar wrote:
>
>> Yes, UML Studio looks very nice.
>>
>> But i hopped there was something in the less then $100 market. I only
>> need to draw and maintain a a few diagrams. So the program is overkill
>> for my purposes.
>
> I also recall Metamill, good shareware IIRC, and Sparx Systems
> Something, originally from Australia (the latter had a good UML
> tutorial, too.)

It's got a heavy Java flavor (written in it, etc), but Argo is free.
http://www.tigris.org

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