With this script you can change set all the lines styles on a diagram at once, to your preferred style per type of connector.
In Enterprise Architect you can choose from no less then 9 different line styles for the connectors.
Unfortunately you can only choose from the first three to be the default line style for new connectors. Additionally you can also specify the default for Generalization to be Tree Style, but that is it.
For me that is not enough.… Read more
Following these 5 rules will make your UML diagrams easier to understand, cleaner, and more consistent.
Although that has no effect on the actual model, it will improve the communication with the stakeholders.
Large diagrams containing heaps of elements actually convey less information then small focussed diagrams.
When reading such a large diagram your audience will not know what to focus on, and since there’s too much on there to actually pay attention to all elements, they will quickly give up trying altogether.… Read more
There seem to be a lot of misconceptions about UML in the industry, but one of the most persistent is that UML is all about diagrams.
I’ve heard/read phrases like “UML is a collection of diagrams”, and even the Wikipedia page about UML mostly talks about the different diagrams rather then the actual elements and their structure.
Well let me tell you, UML is NOT about diagrams.
Even OMG thinks so as diagrams are hardly defined in the UML superstructure specification.… Read more