Any tool recommendations for creating UML diagrams/adjacent. For systems/processes?

Sequence, flow, state machine, use case etc.

Whenever I search it’s either vendor locked subscription SaaS or some basic but usable tool that costs $800 for a license, Im happy to pay non-enterprise level amount for a good tool.
(I know there’s a having cake and eating it too argument here)

But wondered what options am I missing?

#uml #lazyweb #designtools #diagramming #softwaredesign

@theshaunwalker How official or detailed do you need them to be?

The few times I've created graphs I used Graphviz: https://graphviz.org/gallery/

It has directed graphs, can do basic automation flows and data structures. Simple graphs can be done by hand, it's really good if you're creating them programmatically based on existing data, but some of the examples are way too complex to be hand craft (e.g. the UML one).

Gallery

Also see Yifan's gallery of large graphs, all generated with the sfdp layout engine, but colorized by postprocessing the PostScript files. Please send copyright-free donations of interesting graphs to: Yifan Hu

Graphviz

@zimzat yeah I know Graphviz and it’s my go to for programmatic use cases as you mentioned.

I’m thinking more of (as best as can be) user friendly, drag and drop, easy to do large changes.

Like next step beyond scribbling design in a notebook.