MagicDraw Reviews & Product Details

Tracebility between models, comprehensive uml modeling tool, customization abilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Whereas the tool has been developed according to uml metamodel, there are lots of features which probably will never be used in peactice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drawing sequence diagrams are easy, especially using exciting code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saving the diagram as image it bit tricky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Syncing of requirements and differentiating automatically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a big tool needs a higher hardware requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Powerful tool for system engineering with a lot of interesting functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UX, outdated look, performance, learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Requirements traceability and the capability to utilize DOORS in conjunction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simulation limitations in the tool itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It functions adequately. There is no single property that I really love. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The relatively inexpensive "Personal Edition" (which met our needs) was recently discontinued. We are not be replacing them with more expensive editions. I also don't like the fact that my employees routinely tell me that they hate the product... mostly because they don't like the API. I personally have not been very pleased with their tech support for developers. Also the licensing is cumbersome. I warn new users that they must deactivate the product before uninstalling it, but they rarely do the first time around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once you create objects for one diagram, it is easy to just drag and drop them from the window on the left. For example, in my software context class diagram, I created a profile diagram with all the stereotypes in it and just dragged and dropped those on my objects to attach that stereotype to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

while drawing interaction diagrams, I had to draw multiple messages on the same connection between 2 objects. This was a little tedious as I was not able to find a way to put multiple messages on the same arrow. I had to add multiple arrows and align them so that they looked like a single arrow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using MagicDraw for a few months now, and I am impressed with its csv import functionality and ability to generate sysml diagrams from multiple csv files. You can incrementally build up a whole sysml project via csv importing -- create elements, put them on a diagram, connect elements together, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using the CSV import, requires a good understanding of whatever framework and modeling language you are using. You need understand the nomenclature and the purpose behind various diagram types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.