Re: UML 2 shapes and/or related tools

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

Stuart,

I am probably extending your last question outside the UML universe and you intention...

"where (if at all) do you need to use shapes outside the UML set? "

I do all my work outside the UML set, and the beauty of Dia is its flexibility at a low level.  I always need shapes outside the UML set.  My dia tend towards illustrations for documentation of equipment and its use, sometimes to get a particular presentation of graphs.  None of it specialized so that I am dependent on the sheets of shapes, but I pick among many of the, in particular the electrical, circuit, chemical engineering (a very handy set which I misuse regularly), assorted and flow charts sheets.  I often place images in Dia and annotate extensively on top of them.

Dia is a very nice general purpose tool.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Stuart Rossiter <stuart p rossiter gmail com> wrote:

From: Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>

"Other than to write my own shapes"  This is the only way any shapes arise.
 Someone has to do it.

Michael: fair enough, I phrased the question badly. I guess I should have asked "Does anyone know of any attempts to facilitate UML 2 for Dia (either directly via Dia shapes or indirectly via something like ArgoUML and conversion scripts)?"

 

From: Alejandro Imass <aimass yabarana com>

What exactly are you missing for UML 2? We use the UML 2 standard with
DIA (albeit not religiously a la OMG/Rational) but we are very fluent
in V2 and we use DIA for all our work. Can you provide an example of
what you are trying to do?

Alejandro: a fair question. Unfortunately this was a bit of a 'fire-and-forget' post, as the UML modelling work I did that brought up some apparent shortcomings was quite a long time ago. I'm in the middle of some other work and don't have time to go back over it (I'm not even sure which particular diagram types I had frustrations with), but I appreciate that I probably can't expect too much help without more details!

I may also not have 'thought laterally' enough in terms of adapting existing shapes for my needs.

If/when I have time, I'll go back through everything and post again. Out of interest, what are the normal set of diagram types you use and where (if at all) do you need to use shapes outside the UML set? (I know that, in principle in UML 2, these are not rigid divisions...)

Regards,

Stuart

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