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Even my rather trivial undergraduate UML project required very advanced options, and the only software that fully satisfied my needs was astah professional. I s

by xk_id 14y ago

Even my rather trivial undergraduate UML project required very advanced options, and the only software that fully satisfied my needs was astah professional. I struggled a lot with browser-based UML tools, always to come across a feature I needed but wasn't supported. It was very frustrating, because I had to restart work on several platform, until I gave up and started using astah. For this reason, I personally avoid web-based UML tools ever since. But, there might be reasonable use cases for them.

dmgrow 14y ago
Interesting to hear. Have you tried Lucidchart - http://www.lucidchart.com http://www.lucidchart.com. We turn around improvements very quickly and I'd be interested to hear if it meets your needs, and if not, what we're currently missing for you. You can reach me at support [at] ... And if you're still a student, we give free upgrades to Pro accounts so we'd be happy to hook you up.
- xk_id 14y ago
  Thanks. Actually, my university (UCL) was oferred access to Lucidchart for its students for that project that we did. So it was one of the web-based tools I tried. Looking over the paper I wrote, it seems I actually did happily use it for the domain model, the use case diagram and an early version of the class diagram. However, I think for the sequence diagrams I found it a bit clumsy (for example regarding activation boxes) and eventually gave up. I should note that I think most (probably almost all) of my classmates also happily used Lucidchart, as it was recommended by the lecturer too. But I was a bit overzealous and preferred the more rigorous system of astah, like keeping track of the methods you add to each class and the stricter visual organisation of elements. As for particular examples of UML elements that I wish lucidchart had, I can't really remember, unfortunately.

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Even my rather trivial undergraduate UML project required very advanced options, and the only software that fully satisfied my needs was astah professional. I s

by xk_id 14y ago

dmgrow 14y ago
Interesting to hear. Have you tried Lucidchart - http://www.lucidchart.com http://www.lucidchart.com. We turn around improvements very quickly and I'd be interested to hear if it meets your needs, and if not, what we're currently missing for you. You can reach me at support [at] ... And if you're still a student, we give free upgrades to Pro accounts so we'd be happy to hook you up.
- xk_id 14y ago
  Thanks. Actually, my university (UCL) was oferred access to Lucidchart for its students for that project that we did. So it was one of the web-based tools I tried. Looking over the paper I wrote, it seems I actually did happily use it for the domain model, the use case diagram and an early version of the class diagram. However, I think for the sequence diagrams I found it a bit clumsy (for example regarding activation boxes) and eventually gave up. I should note that I think most (probably almost all) of my classmates also happily used Lucidchart, as it was recommended by the lecturer too. But I was a bit overzealous and preferred the more rigorous system of astah, like keeping track of the methods you add to each class and the stricter visual organisation of elements. As for particular examples of UML elements that I wish lucidchart had, I can't really remember, unfortunately.