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Real UML tools

Posted Feb 18, 2012 9:30 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Real UML tools by dlang
Parent article: LibreOffice 3.5 released

It seems nice, but it definitely covers a different set of use cases than Visio or Inkscape. Not that I need the stupid Visio clipart, I can select my own in OpenClipArt if I want (which I don't); but interactivity and colors are good! Non-square forms and arrows are useful sometimes too. And doing true Web 2.0 diagrams requires round corners. (Just joking, but barely.)

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Real UML tools

Posted Feb 18, 2012 11:52 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

blockdiag doesn't do clipart, but it does many different shapes, colors, etc. including rounded corners if you want them.

It's not the right tool for every job, but it does a lot more than you seem to think it does.

and it scales very well. I was able to throw a network structure with 135 networks, 600 devices, and around 3K interfaces at it and it was able to create a diagram from it with the nwdiag tool

Real UML tools

Posted Feb 18, 2012 19:00 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Definitely not my use case at the moment (InkScape fills the bill nicely for the random diagrams I need), but good to know about. Thanks.