Greatly Improved Tools for UML, ERD, and BPMN
If you need to visualize your software project, document your database setup, or create a process map, your job just got easier.
Make a UML diagram with new templates and tools. Create an ER diagram with more intuitive controls. Make a BPMN diagram with greatly improved automation.
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To connect a symbol like one that represents a class or component in UML, a task or gateway in BPMN, or an entity or attribute in an ER diagram to a new symbol,
simply draw a line and choose a new symbol from the auto-prompt menu of common symbols for your chosen diagram.
This menu is intelligent and will populate with the last 6 symbols you've used in your diagram, so you'll always have the right symbols at your fingertips.
Most UML diagrams involve connecting one or more shapes to each other using lines and special
arrowheads to indicate relationships like
aggregation, dependency, inheritence, composition, and association for classes and interface type for components.
New tools now allows you to quickly select the right line style and arrowhead as needed for your diagram.
UML class and ER diagrams often use a multiplicity notation to indicate the number of instances of one class
or entity linked to another. For example, one company will have one or more employees,
but each employee works for just one company.
You can now show multiplicity by selecting a line and clicking Add Multiplicities in the Lines subsection.
This will put a placeholder multiplicity notation at both ends of the selected line.
The new BPMN templates have sophisticated contextual controls based on the shape selected to let you quickly set markers and types.
For example, for tasks, you'll be able to set the activity type, task type, and add as many markers as you need.
Instead of wasting time looking for the right symbol or worrying about having to replace a symbol when all you need to change is the type or marker, these new controls now let you build and edit your diagram more easily.
Specify the gateway type using a drop-down.
There are additional new tools for data objects, choreography, pools, and lines.
