Import Visio Diagrams into Visual Paradigm

Visio is a widely used diagramming tool in the market, which was also a favorite for many of our users. However after they adopted Visual Paradigm and experience its unbeatable editing capability, most of them requested for converting the legacy diagrams created by Visio to Visual Paradigm project.

In this new release, import Visio to Visual Paradigm in no longer a dream. Just a matter of a few clicks, your legacy diagram will be imported to Visual Paradigm and all the color and style which you created in Visio can be retained. Or alternatively, you can switch to the Visual Paradigm's default style of your choice.

1.	Here we have a Class Diagram drew in Visio.
2.	In order to facilitate a Visio Drawing to be able to import to Visual Paradigm, you must first save the drawing as a XML Drawing (.vdx) format. Now, let's save it an Visio Drawing in (.vdx) format frist.
3.	Let's import the Visio drawing which had been save previous in Step2 into an opening project in Visual Paradigm for UML.
4.	To import a Visio file, select File > Import > Visio... from the main menu.
	This popup the Import Visio dialog box.
	Before we select the Visio file, let's take a look at the two available options: Import Color and Font - By selecting this option, colors and fonts of the shapes to be imported will be retained of what originally stored in the Visio drawing(s). Or otherwise, Visual Paradigm's default settings would be applied. Auto Fit Size - By selecting this option, shapes' size will be optimized at the its minimum possible size. Or otherwise, the original size of the imported shapes will retained.
5.	Let's select the Visio file to import. Press the [...] button beside the File path field.
6.	Select the .vdx Visio XML Drawing file and press Open.
	This popup another Import Visio dialog box. Note that: In the dialog, the left hand side represents the structure of Visio drawing, while the right hand side represents the expected outcome in Visual Paradigm. There are some different in terms of the module element structure in between Visio and Visual Paradigm, This dialog can facilitate the resolution (re-mapping) of the inconsistency between the two element structure. Through this dialog, users can re-map the model elements, or choose not to importing them or even rename the model elements prior the importing action.
7.	Let's examine how this dialog work by renaming a shape. First, select the shape to be renamed from the right hand side of the dialog box.
8.	Click on the tiny triangle next to the selected item
	There are several available options: Not Import - Ignore this shape when importing Class/Actor/... - Change the type of shape to import. We can import a class to import as an Actor by our choice Rename - Rename the shape
9.	Select Rename
10.	Enter a new name in the editing filed. For this case, enter "User" to replace "Client", which was defined in Visio.
11.	Press the Enter key to confirm the editing.
12.	Press OK to proceed with the import process and the import dialog will be closed.
13.	Now, we can browse for the drawing just imported via the Diagram Navigator.
	This is the imported drawing:

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