New Features: 6.2

Sun Microsystems JDK 6 Update 16 (JRE 6 Update 16) or later is required to run Astah. (Astah no longer runs on JDK 5)

New Functions	Astah Professional	Astah UML	Astah Community
Alignment Guide	✓	✓	✓
FreeHand	✓	✓	-
Oval, TextBox, Filled Rectangle, Corner-rounded Rectangles	✓	✓	✓
Improvements on Combo box of Property view	✓	✓	✓
ER Diagram Add multiple domains at once	✓	-	-
Sequence Diagram New menu [Create Reply Message] is added	✓	✓	✓
Statemachine Diagram Improvements on States and Submachine States	✓	✓	✓
BusinessActor, BusinessUseCase, BusinessEntity and BusinessWorker	✓	✓	✓
Other Improvements	✓	✓	✓

Alignment Guide

When placing model elements on the diagram, an alignment guide line(green dashed line) appears to assist you to place models aligned with others.

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FreeHand

Now Astah allows free-hand drawing on diagram.

It can be used to circle or check models to emphasize them or draw arrows to point models during the review with team members or presentations.

FreeHand brings new ways to present the model designs on Astah.

Oval, Filled Rectangle, Corner-rounded Rectangle and Textbox

New model elements, Oval, Filled Rectangle, Corner-rounded Rectangle and Textbox are added on tool bar of most diagrams editors.

Now you have more options to add something to your models other than rectangles. The form and look can be all customized the way you want such as line color, fill color, line width, line type and arrows/non-arrows.

Improvements on Combo box of Property view

Now it's faster to set up Type for models from the combo box!

Type first some letters of Type in Combo box you want to set for models. Astah picks up selections that match with what you typed and you can just select it to set for models.
Wildcard Support such as * and ?
20 selections appear in the Combo box now

ER Diagram

Now Astah allows you to add plural domains at once from [Add ER Domains] menu from Property View / Tool bar menu

Select ResourceEntity, Event Entity or SummaryEntity from ER Entity's dropdown list.

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Improvements on Sequence Diagram

[Create Reply Message] added on Message's Pop-up menu
Reply Message can be created for Frames and InteractionUse

Improvements on Statemachine Diagram

Resizing the States/Submachine States makes the its name, InternalTransition, Entry/Do/Exit contents wrapped automatically
[Auto Resize] menu is added on States/Submachine State's Pop-up menu

Business Actor and Business UseCase

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New added models:

Diagram	New support model elements
Class Diagram	BusinessEntity, BusinessWorker, InstanceSpecification (BusinessEntity) and InstanceSpecification (BusinessWorker)
UseCase Diagram	BusinessActor, BusinessUseCase, BusinessEntity and BusinessWorker
Sequence Diagram	Lifeline (BusinessActor), Lifeline (BusinessEntity) and Lifeline (BusinessWorker)
Communication Diagram	Lifeline (BusinessActor), Lifeline (BusinessEntity) and Lifeline (BusinessWorker)
Deployment Diagram	InstanceSpecification (BusinessEntity) and InstanceSpecification (BusinessWorker)

Other Improvements

Shape and color of knobs that appear when you select models can be changed as you like
Move diagram tabs to move by drag and drop
New shortcut key [Ctrl + W] to close the diagram tab