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What's New in Visual Paradigm for UML 9.0?
Release date: March 13, 2012 (Latest Build: 20120418)View release notes
New Features for
Enterprise Edition includes new features below
ArchiMate enterprise architecture diagram
Study enterprise architecture by using a simple yet powerful independent modeling language called ArchiMate. Understand the relationships between components from different angles and view them concurrently on the diagrams.
Business process diagram
Design workflow with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 standard.
The first movie demonstrates the modeling of typical sales order processing process using BPMN. The movie shows how to create pools, lanes, events, tasks, sub-process, gateway and data object. It also demonstrates how to present the change of states within the process.
The second movie shows some handy functions that can help in business process modeling such as real-time model validation, moving large amount of shapes with sweeper, insert task in existing process...
Animacian
A picture worth a thousand of words, and a movie worth a thousand of pictures! Animacian can configure and generate animation of static design. Animacian supports in business process diagram, sequence diagram and activity diagram. Seeing design in action increase the level of understanding of the design. In 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.
Professional Edition includes new features below
Flow of events editor
Flow of events sample with steps and extension
Document the interactions between user and system (function) using the flow of events editor. The robust editor enables you to enter the steps involved to complete a use case. You may document direct flow with or without extended flow. The editor also comes with a set of advanced tools to help you describe flows in detail. You may document conditional flow with if-then-else and looping clause, add actor/use case reference into the flow, generate report of flow, etc.
- Documenting flow of events
User's Guide
- Document use case with use case detail (Free)
Online training
Standard Edition includes new features below
All editions includes new features below
Converting a Model Element Type
After spending hours on drawing and organizing an activity diagram, you may find that some "Action" shape should be changed to an "Activity" shape. Fixing it manually could take a little while. But, with the "Change Type" feature, you can do that in just a few clicks. In a list readily available to you, simply review which properties need to be copied from the "Action" shape to the "Activity" shape, select them and click OK.
Stereotyped element appearance
Stereotypes are extensibility mechanism in Unified Modeling Language (UML). Stereotypes allow modeler to extend the vocabulary of UML. Visual Paradigm for UML supports defining and applying stereotype for UML model elements. In addition, you may define formatting attributes (fill, line and font) in stereotype. When you apply stereotype(s) to UML model elements the formatting of the element will be updated to follow the definitions defined for the stereotype. The following movie demonstrates how to define and apply formatting attributes with stereotype.
- Applying stereotype to model element
User's Guide
- Define and specify stereotype in BPD
Know-how
Extend Properties to Your Needs
Want to describe your model element with attributes beyond the defaults? Simply add custom properties by using tagged values. Let's say you are working with an actor called "employee" in a UML use case diagram. You could add a tag called "Work Hours Per Week" of integer type and assign "40" to it, as an example. To centralize these tag definitions for reuse, you can group them under a stereotype which you can add to a model element afterwards.
