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Unfortunately i realized that in SIM it's actually very bad with ER-diagram. It's much better to do in erwin, but it's completely commercial and not portable, and dont even have project tree. Then why can you just copy its advantages? It won't be "stealing" because it's just already STANDART!!! Its called IDEF1X + absolutely correct rectangular behavior of lines. SIM use Crow's foot notation and without correct rectangular style "foot" looks crooked - middle "fingers" attached to border (it's right), but two others just follow for rotation of line. it looks slovenly and not can be used in serious official diagrams. if rectangular style (rs) would work correct it could be avoid, but even without rs it's desirable to hold foot direct.

To erwin features you can add configurability and possibility dont follow strictly rules of notification like an option.

not to follow. sorry.

Crow's foot also usefull thing, but not the way you made it.

Hi, sorry for bad English.

In er-diagramm how can i turn entity "Structure" style to simple rectangle without any atributes and title of the entity in the middle? It's very inconvinient that entity title not clear. I mean it's very often when atributes is not required at all.

Also as "structure" style i mean such things like showing nulability setting. Actually not null string is so annoying that i spent all the day in searching er-diagramm tools without such thing. Then i figure out how to remove the NOT NULL string, but it dosent belong to visual style and can not be saved for all entitis. i really must set this for any new entity? Maybe you will make structure style too?

I like SIM, but it's usability very very low. You need a very good usability and interface designer.

I've just known that NOT NULL showing setting isn't even saved when SIM restarts!!!! WTF.

rectangular line style rather dosent work than does.

I prefer improvents like this, a little like this than a lot of new.))

I'm working on a sequence diagram with fairly long triggers and guards, and if I do a"top-down" layout the texts wrap in a way that meks them incomprehenceable. Is there a way to control these wraps?

Otherwise I would suggest that the resizing handles of connecting objects such as the transition will control the text wrapping.

This is the same for all connectors of all diagram types.

OK, but using custom style is annoying since selecting that does not retain the styles set on the project.

For instance the text font is set to Bold Microsoft dlg, which means that I have to manually edit ALL settings of each text I need to unwrap.

How to I enter pre- and post conditions with use cases?

Ok. Thanks for the reply. I will be patient :)

Is there a particular version of the XMI standard needed for import?

It looks like "auto-implemented properties" are not imported from C# source:

public string MyProperty { get; set; }

is ignored when imported.

A visibility filter would also be a nice to have on class diagrams (i.e. show/hide private fields/methods).

This after a 5 minute evaluation of the ultimate version. Looks extremely promising and the price is certainly right. Will have to play some more with it.

Danny