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mylesr

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Class diagram layout
« on: September 20, 2006, 08:36:09 am »
I sometimes use EA to reverse engineer a class diagram from existing source code in order to get an idea of the overall structure.  If there are a lot of classes (often several hundred), none of the layout options give me a satisfactory arrangement (In fact, I often can't tell much difference between the effects of the different layout options.)  It does give me a good starting point, though.  I'd like to start from the automated layout and drag things around as needed.  The problem with this is that many of the connectors have several "bend" points that aren't appropriate after dragging clusters of objects around.  In a small diagram, I could manually move or remove individual bend points.  In a large diagram, that would be an enormous waste of time.  

So here's the question...
Is there a way, after moving several classes around in a class diagram, to have EA recalculate the connector lines without moving the classes?  If not, is there a way to at least remove *all* bend points from all connectors in the diagram?

Thanks in advance!

thomaskilian

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Re: Class diagram layout
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2006, 11:43:30 am »
Not directly. You need to write an add-in to do that for you.