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lily
lily

Reputation: 395

How to resize my UML class diagram on MS Visio'07

How do i resize the class diagram in Visio? My operations have many parameters so the class diagram becomes too long. I need to resize the height of it,how can i do that?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3758

Answers (1)

Hippias Minor
Hippias Minor

Reputation: 1967

Well..

The short answer is

DO NOT RESIZE IT.

If still want to resize

Check

--> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/264676

--> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/visiogeneral/thread/4a8a9688-7d11-466f-b809-828d6e9b4c11/ [Emely16 answer]

And Here is the LONG ANSWER:

If you do a reverse engineering to your code [ from code to digram] to understand code base better

Well visual representation like UML also shows some "problems" visually. First it should give you a code smell about "something is wrong with my code" [ it may show a real problem or just an false alarm] Check it and ask yourself "Why i have so many parameters in my methods".

If you are designing your system [ not write the code yet ]

You are at wrong direction. UML is a visual thinking tool. Change your model-class.

But do not try to model every part of your software details with UML before coding.Use UML for hard and tricky parts to explore alternative design, to better understand system that you will code.Only the working code is the real model.

And As A general Modeling Advice [ Short Answer ]

Whether you are doing reverse engineering or use UML to explore difficult part of your design

To make your diagrams simple, you may choose NOT to show method parameters : Even sometimes you may cose not to show also methods and attributes even some classes also.This is OK.

AS A COMMON SENSE RULE

Ask yourself, if I show method parameters, what benefit will I get?

HUMANS ARE IRRATIONAL

You may find yourself in a crazy working enviroment where QA team or Boss want so. Explain them with a common sense why this is bad.

If they insist on it, and you have no choice, ask them to buy a UML modeling tools which are more easy to use. And give them complicated and unusefull diagrams since they want it. :-)

Upvotes: 2

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