Violet UML Editor

Violet is a UML editor with these benefits:

Very easy to learn and use. Draws nice-looking Diagrams. Completely free. Cross-platform. Violet is intended for developers, students, teachers, and authors who need to produce simple UML diagrams quickly.

Supported diagrams

Violet implements the follownign diagrams

- use-case diagram
- class diagram
- activity diagram
- sequence diagram
- state diagram
- object diagram

Fully integrated into Eclipse

- Tested on Eclipse 3.1.1, 3.2, 3.3
- Supports Eclipse local History and allows you to restore previous diagrams
- Direct drag’n’drop of java classes into class and sequence diagrams with code reverse engineering
- Drag’n’drop existing diagrams into current one to create diagram links

Easy to use

There’s something very important you have to consider if you plan to use a UML editor. What will be your Frequency of use? Humm... We could suppose that you will not spend your time making diagrams. Thus, if you have to re-learn how to use your editor before creating a new diagram each time you start it, it will not be very efficient.

So, Violet has been developed to be very intuitive and esay to use. In FACT, Violet is the acronym of Very Intuitive Object Layout Editing Tool.

Flexible launch


Run Violet as you want it! Violet could be started as :

- a single application,
- an applet,
- via Java Web Start,
- an Eclipse plugin

Editor features


- can open multiple documents
- supports direct links between diagrams
- nice drawing with automatic grid snap
- zoom in / zoom out
- undo / redo
- cut/copy/paste
- multiple diagram elements select and drag’n drop
- supports diagram tool change with mouse scroll button
- maximum drawing space by hiding tools bar
- xml file format
- copy diagram image to clipboard so you can paste it in your word processor
- export diagram image to file
- printing
- restores workspace on startup with opened documents
- translated into English and French (Contribute for transletion!)
- AND MORE...