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Borland released a free Together Designer Community Edition. I downloaded the 60 MB bundle, obtained the registration key and started it up. It have the familiar Together ControlCenter look and is very responsive.

It supports the drawing of seven kinds of UML 2.0 and UML 1.4 diagrams:

• Class
• Use Case
• Sequence (UML 1.4)
• Collaboration (UML 1.4)
• Statechart
• Activity
• Component
• Deployment
• Composite Structure (UML 2.0)

It supports imports from MDL and XMI formats. It saves in a proprietary XML format. Diagrams can also be exported to GIF, SVG, and WMF format graphics files.

There are no support for code generations or round trip engineering.

This makes it possible for every member of the project team to work on key UML diagrams. Prior to this, most of the projects I was on has one copy of (a very expensive UML tool), forcing the architect to save the diagrams as graphics files or paste them into Word documents to share the design with the team.