Modeling Toolset

Visual Diff

Compare diagrams visually with visual diff. Export result of comparison to PDF file for documentation purpose.

A picture worth a thousand of words, and a movie worth a thousand of pictures! Animacian can be configured and can generate animation of static design. Animacian is ready for business process diagram, sequence diagram and activity diagram. Seeing design in action increases the level of understanding of the design. In the latest release, you can define your own animation path in business process diagram.
The following movies show you how to animate your business process diagram, sequence diagram and activity diagram with Animacian. The forth movie shows you how to export animation to Adobe Flash format.

Tutorial

• Animate Business Process Using Animacian

Online training

• Using Animacian (Free)

Reference other project model elements

It is not possible to put everything in single visual paradigm project in enterprise scale project. Agilian allows visualizing different projects' model elements in a single diagram. The following movie shows how to configure dependent project and show the model elements in diagram.

Tutorial

• Reference and mirror other projects

Online training

• Reusing Model Element with Dependent Projects (Free)

View dependent project diagrams

View sub-project diagrams in the master project without switching project back and forthth.

Duplicate model elements from reference project

Automatic copy reference project model elements to current project. All model element members and properties will be copied at the same time.

Mirror model elements feature are similar to reference model elements feature that allows visualizing model elements from other projects. The referenced model element will not keep a local copy of the model element in the project and not allow adding child to the model elements. Mirror model elements feature keeps copies of the model elements in local project and allows adding child model elements to the mirrored model elements.

Reusing, refining, elaborating or transcribing portion of previous project's diagram can increase modeling efficiency dramatically. Agilian supports the use of Design Pattern, which enables you to define diagram or portion of the diagram as pattern, and apply the pattern in future. The defined patterns are highly configurable and customizable to fulfill any needs. All diagrams in Agilian supports design pattern. The defined patterns can be shared within the team through VP Teamwork Server, Subversion, Perforce or CVS.

Nick name:OriginalFrenchGermanSimplified Chinese

Agilian's market-unique Nicknamer feature lets you define multiple set of name and documentation in single model. In this connection, it allows a diagram to be presented in different languages without keeping multiple copy of the diagrams or project files. You can maintain one business process diagram with different languages for different branches of your company around the world. Besides, you can put a human readable name for each entity in ERD to increase the readability. The following movie shows you how to maintain two languages of business process diagram and make a human readable ERD. You can see the nicknamer in action by changing the combo box at the right hand side.

Translate diagrams to different languages by the automatic translation function. Both model element name and documentation can be translated. The following movie demonstrates how to translate activity diagram from English to Chinese.

Traceability and model transitor

Traceability between model elements helps to identify and locate the source of origin of specify model element in project. For example, "Process Order" use case is derived from a task called "Process customer order" in a business process diagram. Agilian supports model transitor to manage and maintain the traceability between model elements.