Free UML Eclipse Tool - SDE Community Edition for Eclipse

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Smart Development Environment Community Edition for Eclipse (SDE CE-EC) is a modeling platform designed for learning UML™ modeling through our best-of-breed and award-winning visual modeling technology that facilitates UML visualization (the latest UML 2.1 notation and all 13 diagrams supported).

Powerful and Easy-to-use GUI

Now developers can create diagrams much faster than any tool on the market through SDE-EC's most intuitive resource-centric and mouse location sensitive GUI. Tidy up your complex and messy diagrams is just a matter of one mouse click by using SDE-EC's automatic diagram layout technology and yet the unique gesture editing capability makes diagramming a fun task.

Extendibility and Custom Design Support

Extends UML capabilities beyond the latest UML 2.1 is not a dream! Now, SDE-EC allows you to design new notation or incorporate custom shapes or symbols by using image icon import, UML profile or Visio integration capability. SDE CE-EC is for non-commercial use only and only support one diagram per diagram type. All output of SDE CE-EC have single line water mark at the top left corner stating the software is for non-commercial use only.

Key Features



1.	Full UML 2.1 notations	2.	Requirements management




3.	Import/export to XML and image	4.	Intuitive visual modeling

Detail Features

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Detail Features

	UML Support

	1.		Class diagrams
	2.		Use case diagrams
	3.		Sequence diagrams
	4.		Communication diagrams
	5.		State machine diagrams
	6.		Activity diagrams
	7.		Component diagrams
	8.		Deployment diagrams
	9.		Package diagrams
	10.		Object diagrams
	11.		Composite structure diagrams
	12.		Timing diagrams
	13.		Interaction overview diagrams
	14.		Use case detail editor
	15.		Use case flow-of-events listing
	16.		Generate sequence diagrams from flow of events lists
	17.		Business model use case support

	Requirements Management

	1.		Requirement diagrams
	2.		Textual analysis
	3.		CRC card diagrams
	4.		Identify candidate activity and action by textual analysis
	5.		Display full set of requirements in tabular view

	Database Modeling

	1.		Entity relationship diagrams
	2.		ORM diagrams

	Visual Modeling

	1.		Annotation with callout shapes
	2.		Annotation with freehand shapes
	3.		Organize model elements and diagrams using Model Explorer
	4.		Bookmark support
	5.		Handi-Selection tool
	6.		Customizable data types for use with multiple programming languages
	7.		Overview diagrams
	8.		Resource-centric interface
	9.		Model sharing
	10.		Cut, copy and paste
	11.		Copy diagrams as images for use in other applications
	12.		Undo and redo options
	13.		Mouse gestures
	14.		Reverse connector directions
	15.		Group creation support
	16.		Jump to feature for selecting a particular shape or model
	17.		Quick connect feature
	18.		Easy navigation to connected elements
	19.		Model commenting
	20.		Duplicate shapes and models
	21.		Selectable/non-selectable toggling for shapes
	22.		Diagram locking
	23.		Reference to any type of artifact
	24.		Advanced file and directory selector
	25.		Advanced tree support
	26.		Duplicate, move and reconnect connectors
	27.		Package headers for all types of diagrams
	28.		Tagged value display toggling for diagram elements
	29.		Sub-diagrams and reference indicators
	30.		Rectilinear, round rectilinear, oblique, round oblique and curve connector styles
	31.		Space reclamation or elimination using Sweeper feature
	32.		Create shapes with user-defined initial sizes
	33.		Drag-and-drop creation of shapes using trees in diagrams
	34.		Auto-fit shape sizes
	35.		In-line editing
	36.		Spell checking
	37.		Visual alignment guides
	38.		Numerous grid options
	39.		Diagram information display in diagrams
	40.		Jump to diagram feature
	41.		Drag-and-drop copying, moving and reordering of classes and entity members
	42.		Open view from model element
	43.		Diagram renaming boxes
	44.		Add folders as favorites
	45.		Display Undo/Redo action names
	46.		Inverse shape selection

	Style and Formatting

	1.		Customizable shape style and formatting
	2.		Image incorporation in diagrams
	3.		Stereotyped element appearance
	4.		Rich text documentation
	5.		Add rich text elements to diagrams
	6.		Shape format copier
	7.		Enrich model documentation with images
	8.		Save/load template for model documentation

	Printing

	1.		Print multiple diagrams
	2.		Preview printable pages
	3.		Print clip marks
	4.		Page margin, size and orientation alteration support
	5.		Fit-to-pages option
	6.		Fit-to-ratio option
	7.		Customizable page header and footer
	8.		Project name and diagram name display in header or footer
	9.		Print with frame or border support
	10.		Toggle gradient color printing
	11.		Quick print support

	IDE Integrations

	1.		Embedded modeling environment in Eclipse

	Layout Facilities

	1.		Automatic diagram layouts
	2.		Shape alignment and centering
	3.		Uniform shape width and height maintenance
	4.		Automatic shape distribution

	Interoperability

	1.		Import and export XML
	2.		Export diagrams as JPG, PNG, SVG and EMF image files
	3.		Export diagrams as PDFs
	4.		Slice exported diagrams into smaller segments

	Intuitive User Interface

	1.		Group diagrams by category
	2.		Advanced property pane
	3.		Dockable user interface windows.
	4.		New project generation using predefined templates
	5.		Easy-to-use "New Diagram" dialog
	6.		Flexible zooming
	7.		Palette-style toolbar
	8.		Collapsible toolbar
	9.		Display tool names for toolbar buttons
	10.		Expand grouped toolbar buttons
	11.		Display various diagram categories in toolbar
	12.		Numerous looks-and-feels
	13.		Import user preferences from existing workspaces
	14.		Multilingual support
	15.		Searchable options

	Automatic Updates

	1.		Automatic online updating
	2.		Maintain local update server with update synchronizer

	Open Architecture

	1.		Plug-in support (Java)
	2.		VP model and XML interaction

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