First I'm new in the Astah world so please have patience, thanks. Let's go to the problem, I'm working in a project and I need to make a new diagram type, I know there is Class, Use Case, Sequence and more diagrams but I need to make X. This diagram that I want to make has its own logical, entities and relations (So I'll need to make these too). So with last Astah SDK can I do this? I am asking because I looked at the API and I didn't find a clean way.


Thanks.

Thank you for using Astah.

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We are afraid you could not create a new diagram type with Astah SDK.
Currently you can develop an extra view in Astah.
- Astah Plug-in Development Tutorial
http://astah.net/tutorials/plug-ins/plugin_tutorial_en/html/index.html

Thank you!

Thanks for the fast reply. So I can't make a new diagram type but can I make a new entity or relation type to an existing diagram? If not there's future plans to support this?

Thanks.

Hello,

We are afraid that you cannot make new entities or relation types even to exsting diagrams.

Only thing I can suggest is to use "Customized Icon". What it does is that you can specify an image for each Stereotype. By adding a stereotype to model, the model element will be displayed as a specified image. This isn't exactly what you are looking for but could help if you want new entities with specific notation that Astah doesn't have. This feature is available for Astah Professional only though.

Reference: How to use customized Icon P.118 of Astah Professional Reference Manual

Please let us know if you have any questions about how to set customized icons..etc.

Thanks,
SJ