Visual modeling with diagrams

MetaEdit+ supports modeling with graphical diagrams. Diagram Editor is a tool for creating, managing and maintaining design information as diagrams. It supports visual modeling of graphs and linking of several graphs through explosions, decompositions and reused components. You can reuse your designs, link design models at different phases and levels, and export to other tools, such as web-browsers, image viewers and text editors.

Diagram Editor supports a variety of design activities:

• Model creation is automated with context sensitive relationship and role selection
• Selecting modeling concepts from toolbar
• Components can be browsed, selected and reused with the Component Selection Tool
• Connections between design information can be inspected and navigated with the Info Tool
• Matrices and tables can be viewed as diagrams
• All design information can be accessed from property dialogs with a mouse click
• Models can be checked with predefined reports and own checking reports can be made
• Designs can be published with documention generation reports into web or word processors
• Code can be generated from designs into C++, Smalltalk, Java, CORBA IDL, Delphi, SQL and into other user defined languages
• Support modeling with help texts about the modeling technique, its components, reports and links to other techniques

Diagram Editor has all the functionality for viewing and formatting the diagrams:

• Scaling sizes of symbols
• Showing overlapping and transparent symbols
• Setting grid and using snap to grid
• Zooming diagrams
• Exporting diagrams to clipboard, GIF, PICT files
• Printing diagrams to several pages
• On-line help with hypertext features