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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Uffe on March 31, 2008, 10:55:00 pm

Title: Tool: Create Logical Diagrams
Post by: Uffe on March 31, 2008, 10:55:00 pm

Hi all!


When reverse-engineering code you have the option of creating logical diagrams per package. However, for a large project this takes a lot of extra time and might cause problems with too many open windows.

Since the functionality is clearly already in EA to generate a diagram from a package, I'd like it as a Tool (with recursion as an option).

Anyone else?


/Uffe

Title: Re: Tool: Create Logical Diagrams
Post by: «Midnight» on March 31, 2008, 11:24:42 pm

I'm not quite getting the idea Uffe.

What exactly do you want to happen on import?

David

Title: Re: Tool: Create Logical Diagrams
Post by: thomas.kilian on April 01, 2008, 01:43:12 am

An auto-gen to create diagrams from package contents. Could be nice, I think.

Title: Re: Tool: Create Logical Diagrams
Post by: Uffe on April 01, 2008, 08:06:24 pm

Yes, that's right. What I'm after is the ability to auto-generate class diagrams from an existing package structure in a model.

The background is the poor performance of the reverse-engineering process, but I meant for this tool to be completely separate from that.

/U

Title: Re: Tool: Create Logical Diagrams
Post by: «Midnight» on April 01, 2008, 10:23:31 pm

Got it!

Quite a useful feature, if you ask me. This would also have relevance outside of imported packages. There are situations where you might want to construct a structural diagram from an existing package.

Options that might be relevant would include the ability to incorporate 'foreign' elements that are referenced from within the package. Perhaps a simple filter - something along the lines of the Add Related Elements dialog - would add some flexibility while reusing some logic that is already written.

David