Import Visio^® Stencil - Extends the UML modeling capabilities to the infinity 

Unified Modeling Language (UML) is an industry-standard for specifying, visualizing, constructing and documenting the artifacts of object-oriented systems with the graphical diagrams. Although UML only provides a limited amount of notations, but it allows you to model the whole universe by extending the notations with stereotypes. The UML stereotypes only extend in the meaning, but didn’t mention how its look likes. Sometimes we want a bit more!

VP-UML 4.0 and SDE 2.0 introduce the Modeler feature which allows you to transfer the shapes from Visio^® into VP-UML. You can use these shapes in any diagram as you like.

 

Extending the notations for your development With the Modeler, you are not bound by the limited UML notations anymore. The only limitation is your imagination. You can assign more meaningful image to your own notation instead of using the stereotypes. Everything can be drawn in the Visio can be used in your UML diagrams.

 

Do it once, use it every time Once you have imported the shapes into VP-UML, you can use it in all of your projects. You don’t need to do the import every time when you want to have those special shapes in your diagrams.

 

Easy to manage The imported shapes can be organized into different categories so that your favorite shapes can be found easily.

 

Software Requirements

This feature is available for both VP-UML 4.0 and SDE 2.0 (Modeler Edition or above). In order to use this powerful functionality, you need to have Microsoft^® .NET Framework 1.1 and Microsoft Office Visio^® installed. It is important that you MUST install the .NET Framework before installing Visio^®. Besides, the “Visio Send to VP” Plug-in must be installed. The plug-in can be found in the “bundled” directory under the installation directory.

 

Related Resources

Interactive demonstration of the Modeler

Create shapes in Visio® and import to VP-UML