DiagramDrawer

The goal of this project is to create an application to create and modify various technical diagrams.

Current Features

• Draw UML class diagrams with class boxes and relationships between them
• Move and resize drawn class boxes
• Double-click drawn components to edit contents
• Easily change the relationships between components and switch directions of directed relationships
• Undo the history of changes made with z key
• Save/Load diagrams as XML
• Export the diagram as a PNG

Planned Upcoming Features

Completing Class Diagrams:

• allow relationships to be moved and resized
• allow relationships to be drawn with multiple points, rather than always be a straight line
• add labels and multiplicities to relationships

Other Diagram Types to Eventually Implement:

• entity-relationship diagrams
• use case diagrams
• flowcharts
• state machines
• activity diagrams

Built With

• JDK 13.0.2 SE - Java version to compile project
• JavaFX - Java GUI framework
• Maven - Dependency Management
• Lombok - Java Library to cut down on boilerplate code
• Reflections - Java Library to analyze code metadata
• JavaTuples - Java Library to make use of tuples

Authors

• Luke Newton - Graduate Student, Carleton University