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Changing Element Types After Creation
You might have spent days on drawing some business process diagrams. Then you realize some "Task" shape should be changed to a "Gateway" shape. It may take quite a bit of time to replace it. With the "Change Type" feature, you only need to review and decide which properties to carry over from the "Task" to the "Gateway". Sit back and let the system to take care of the rest of the conversion.
Create turning points when create shape
Save diagramming time by create connecting objects with multiple turning points at once.
- Bending connectors during creation
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Resources-centric modeling interface
Drawing diagram in traditional diagramming tool is a tedious work, as modeler need to go back and forth between diagram and toolbars for performing different tasks. Visual Paradigm introduces resource-centric modeling interface, which increase the productivity and make a lot of fun in diagramming. Let's see resource-centric in action in the following movie. The first part of movie shows how to create tasks using resource icon. The second part shows how to use resource to connect tasks with sequence flow. Part 3 shows how to use group resource in data flow diagram. Part 4 shows how "Quick Connect" resource helps in drawing large data flow diagram. The final part shows how to use generic resource to create any type of shapes and relationship.
Annotating diagram
UML, BPMN, SysML and ERD are good graphical notation for describing engineering and business concepts. Having text annotation in diagram increases the readability of the diagram. Business Process Visual ARCHITECT support various annotation options, such as callout shape and freehand shape.
Voice documentation
Express your thought and detail with voice documentation feature. Voice documentation lets you records or link any audio recording to business process elements in your project.
- Documenting your model with voice
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Diagram navigation
Search and locate diagram and model element is a critical feature when project and diagrams are growing bigger and bigger. Business Process Visual ARCHITECT provides a lot of navigation functions for modeler to search and locate diagrams and model elements in a project. These navigation functions include jumping to diagram, jumping to shape, finding alternative views of model element, bookmark shapes and navigating between relationship ends.
Reference to internal and external resources
Business Process Visual ARCHITECT provides a reference feature for linking internal and external resources with model elements. Internal resources include diagrams and shapes. External resources include any type of document (e.g. MS Word, PDF...) and website URL. Modeler may open the linked resource by opening the reference dialog box or by using the reference resource-centric icon attached to each shape. The following movie shows reference feature in action.
Selection facilities
Selection function is a crucial function of drawing tool but people usually not aware good selection function can save a lot of time in diagramming. Visual Paradigm has invented a lot of selection function to increase the usability, including inverse shapes selection, selecting same type of shapes in diagram, handi-selection and set selectable on and off.
Mouse gestures
The mouse gestures function is designed for modeler to create and connect shapes in diagram with simple mouse cursor movements. The mouse gestures function can be used with mouse (Windows: dragging with right mouse button down, Mac OSX: dragging with Cmd button down and Linux: dragging with Ctrl button down). The following movie shows mouse gestures in action.
Reclaiming and eliminating spaces with sweeper and magnet
Modeling is not just about creating diagrams but also the ease of refinement. Good visual modeling tool allows modeler to create and manipulate diagrams in effective way. Business Process Visual ARCHITECT provides sweeper and magnet functions for expanding and compacting diagram without messing up the layout. Please see how sweeper and magnet in action in the following movie.
Layout facilities
Business Process Visual ARCHITECT provides several semi-automatic and automatic layout functions. Semi-automatic layout functions include aligning shapes in different directions, making shapes in same width/height, and distributing shapes evenly. Business Process Visual ARCHITECT also supports automatic layout function to tidy up reverse engineered diagrams.You may check out the effects of circular, organic and orthogonal style automatic layout below.
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Model element name completion
Business Process Visual ARCHITECT allows reusing same model element in different diagrams. This function called multiple views of single model element. You may drag a model element from model explorer tree to diagram, or use the completion popup when creating the shapes.
Model organization
Organize diagrams and model elements systematically is important when modeling middle to large scale projects. The Model Explorer in Business Process Visual ARCHITECT provides a flexible tree structure to organize diagrams and model elements. The "Model" acts like a folder in file system for organizing project contents. Model explorer allows creating unlimited number and levels of model. A well structured project can increase the performance of the tool significantly.
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