Visual Modeler (version 4.1)

Visual Modeler 4.1 for UML is a professional quality visual modeling and drawing tool for drawing two-dimensional technical diagrams. It provides extensive support for UML 2.0 (Unified Modeling Language) with templates for six most commonly used UML diagrams: class diagram, package diagram, use case diagram, state diagram, sequence diagram, and activity diagram. Visual Modeler 4.1 is easy to use, powerful, and flexible. It includes a rich set of templates for common graphics objects and shapes. It also provides templates for creating various types of technical diagram such as flowcharts, and entity relationship diagrams, etc.

The drawings created by Visual Modeler 4.1 are stored in XML format, so they can be easily processed by other tools. Visual Modeler can also export the drawings to a number of common graphics formats, including SVG, PDF, EPS, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF.

Download and Installation

Visual Modeler can be download from
  http://www.aesthsoft.com/

It is available in several different formats for downloading, including Microsoft Windows executable installer (.exe), and Java archive executable installer (.jar). See the Installation Guide for details.

After installation is complete, the following files and sub-directories can be found under the installation directory

  INSTALL.html
  LICENSE.txt  
  LICENSE-THIRD-PARTIES.txt  
  README.html
  README.txt
  bin/
  doc/
  examples/
  lib/

Running Visual Modeler

In most cases, if you have used the executable or JAR installer for the installation, you can launch the Visual Modeler from the menu or the desktop shortcut. For MacOS, click on the VisualModeler application under the installation directory to launch the Visual Modeler. On all platforms, you can always launch the Visual Modeler from the command prompt using the following command:

 java -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -jar <installation directory>/lib/avm.jar

Run scripts for Linux/Unix and Windows can be found under the bin sub-directory.

Consult the User's Guide (Guide.html) in the doc sub-directory under the installation directory for the usages of the tool.

Feedbacks

We would appreciate your feedbacks of Visual Modeler and bug reports. Send your feedbacks and bug reports via emails to: feedback@aesthsoft.com.


[March 2010]