UML Must Dia!

Presently I am taking a software engineering course at school. We are required to create all sorts of UML diagrams for the program we are working on, and since our school uses Windows we have to make them with Microsoft Viso.

Those of you that have ever used Viso will know that it's a pain in the ass. Especially when it comes to making something complex like a class diagram.

I started looking around for a Linux program that could easily make UML diagrams and low and behold I found one. Dia is an amazing program for UML designing.

I played around with it a little bit and instantly fell in love with it. It has all the necessary symbols for UML; there is no hunting around or drawing your own actors for use-case diagrams.

My favorite feature is the class blocks. All you have to do is drag-and-drop the class to your sheet and double click on it to open up a big menu which allows you to modify every element of your class. When you are done apply your changes and your class will appear just as it should.

Dia create excellent UML diagrams in a way that Viso could never do: without pain or hassle.
Dia just works.