z3bra Wrote:My tool of choice is UMLet, I have used it for a whole year now, and I must say that it works perfectly !
The best points are CLI conversion of UMLet files (.uxf) to other format (.pdf, .jpg, .eps). I use it via a Makefile to integrate diagrams in my LaTeX documents, that awesome :

Code:

uxf.eps:
    @echo "EPS  $<"
    @umlet -action=convert -format=eps -filename=$< >/dev/null

It's available on the officials archlinux repos, for those interested (in [community]).

Quote:You don't have a licence, closing this message box a file dialog will appear proposing you to save a 'licence request file', please refer to http://www.bouml.fr/pricing.html to know how to use it to get a license

• https://www.gliffy.com/
  Apparently gliffy can be used on the desktop as a chrome app which is good.
  

  kirby Wrote:Thought I'd chip in on gliffy, as that's basically what I've been using and I hate it. The interface is pretty slow and really buggy (accidently made a mistake on a textbox? Trying to edit it crashes everything!). And of course you can't save anything without paying up (or at least making an account). It's good enough for small quick stuff.

  It's not open source but seems like working almost flawlessly.
  
• https://www.lucidchart.com/
  Lucichart.com is filled with content, there are literally buttons everywhere.
  It has all the diagrams components you'll need and even more. I tested the class diagram and my overall view is that
  the interface gets very annoying after some time. There's always a pop-up jumping in your face.
  You can save and export diagrams on your disk, and you can also share and collaborate on
  diagrams but you can't do any of those until you have registered (not for free).
  
• http://www.yuml.me/
  You need to write the UML diagram using yuml language.
  
• http://www.codeuml.com/
  You'll need to learn an intermediary language and actually code your uml instead of designing it, which I'd rather not waste time doing.
  
• https://www.draw.io/
  It isn't very easy to use as an UML diagram editor. All the UML diagrams components are messed up together
  in the same category. It's more of a web-application to draw diagrams in general, it's not specialized for UML.
  The good thing is that it lets you save the diagrams.
  
• http://creately.com/
  
  
• http://genmymodel.com
  I had a good time with this one.
  It has a great user-friendly interface with an integrated html5 context menu so that it feels
  like a desktop program. You can create public or private projects to share or open only to your co-workers.
  You can export your projects in multiple formats, namely svg, xml, jpeg, pdf. You can even directly generate it into
  java or sql which is pretty neat. Upon Generation in java it gives you tips like "class name should start with uppercase letter".
  The only drawbacks are that it's not open source and that it's only specialized for class diagram.
  
  It's an excellent free class diagram tool that I recommend.
  

(08-01-2014, 06:23 PM)Ippytraxx Wrote: wth, this is actually a thing. I usually do this kind of stuff on my whiteboard, didn't know there were actual developer tools for it or that it was even called something. Thanks a lot venam.

(09-01-2014, 07:54 PM)kirby Wrote: This is a really useful post, thanks a lot!

Thought I'd chip in on gliffy, as that's basically what I've been using and I hate it. The interface is pretty slow and really buggy (accidently made a mistake on a textbox? Trying to edit it crashes everything!). And of course you can't save anything without paying up (or at least making an account). It's good enough for small quick stuff.

I think I used creately once and it seemed fine enough.

(01-02-2014, 04:12 AM)xaelis Wrote: Hi Venam,

We are developing an UML modeling tool called GenMyModel (http://www.genmymodel.com). It is web based and thus is OS independent.

We are trying to make it as simple and as powerful as possible. I hope it can be suitable for you.
Any feedback is very welcome.