Importing diagrams from Rational Rhapsody

[elgringogordo]

I am investigating importing class diagrams from Rhapsody into EA.  We do not have the license for exporting to XMI in Rhapsody and sadly the evaluation licence doesn't cover it either so I can't even see if it is worth advocating buying the add on license. 

I am trying to import using the built in EA option instead.  At the moment I am trying to import class diagrams using the Import|Rhapsody tool.  This dies seem to successfully import the object nicely Classes, Descriptors and so on but no diagrams.  Is it possible to import the diagrams or would I have to manually recreate them ?  Or...there seems to be quite a bit of info in the Tracability box, is it possible to get EA to try and rebuild the diagrams from this ?

Thanks...

[Geert Bellekens]

XMI is a format to exchange models, but it doesn't include diagrams.
Although a lot of vendors have extended XMI to also include diagram information the exchange-ability of these extensions is pretty low.

So even if you got the XMI add-in working, I doubt that you will get a better result then you are getting now.

But luckily it is quit easy to rebuild diagrams in EA.
You simply select all imported elements from the project browser and drag them onto an empty diagram.

Then you can do an auto-layout and voila.

Geert

[elgringogordo]

Thanks that seems to work pretty well!