UML Tool of your choice

[sproksch]

This is a thread that should be used to report your experience with existing UML tools as discussed in the exercise today. It surely is a huge help for the students of the next year if you can provide some help in the decision which tool to use (or which tool *not* to use ). A simple "<toolname> +/-1" is ok to express your opinion about a specific tool if you do not want to write a lot...

Thank you!

[Mirlix_]

Visual Paradigm +

[Taldera]

Very simple but useful and for free:
Violet UML Editor +

[MarkusMS]

I'm using DIA.
It's a simple tool not only for UML Diagramms (flow charts / ER models etc. are also possible).

[Manolis]

I am using the yEd Graph Editor. It's also usable for many different diagram types.

http://www.yworks.com/de/products_yed_about.html

[Thorbur]

StarUML - Windows Only
ArgoUML - Platform independant (Java) - http://argouml.tigris.org/

[C0RNi666]

UMLet
Free UML Tool for Fast UML Diagrams

http://www.umlet.com/

For Free, very lightweight and easy to use with drag & drop of all necessary elements.

Visual Paradigm is more professional, but heavyweight and overloaded and not for free unlimited use (licensing issues)