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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: Screwtape on April 19, 2016, 05:46:33 pm

Title: Export EA Diagrams to Powerpoint Drawing Objects
Post by: Screwtape on April 19, 2016, 05:46:33 pm

Hi!

I've seen a clever export script that copies EA into Powerporint slides as pictures, but as I want to be able to animate the slide, I need to have individual drawing objects. The powerpoint function to "ungroup" pictures doesn't help, because there are too many objects as every part of the diagram becomes a separate object.

Has anyone seen/used/made a "EA diagram to Powerpoint drawing objects" export? I ask before I invest any time trying to do it myself.

Thanks!

Screwtape.

Title: Re: Export EA Diagrams to Powerpoint Drawing Objects
Post by: RoyC on April 21, 2016, 01:32:35 pm

Have you investigated the 'Diagram Slideshow' facility of Model Views in EA?

Title: Re: Export EA Diagrams to Powerpoint Drawing Objects
Post by: Screwtape on April 26, 2016, 11:51:00 pm

Hi Roy!

I hadn't, but I have now. Thanks!

Sadly, it doesn't do what I need. Much like the script I mentioned, it will allow me to display a sequence of completed diagrams. What I am trying to achieve, is to be able to animate the creation of the diagrams (so for example, to bring in the first n boxes in step 1, and then the next n boxes in step 2), in order to build the diagram in understandable steps, rather than presenting a huge diagram. I could do it by creating lots of stage diagrams, but that is a) messy and b) still doesn't use the animation features of Powerpoint.

Yours,

Screwtape.

Title: Re: Export EA Diagrams to Powerpoint Drawing Objects
Post by: Geert Bellekens on April 27, 2016, 07:12:13 pm

You might be able to use diagram filters for that purpose.

Geert