What is the Visual Designer application?
The Visual Designer is a customizable online modeling, presentation, flowcharting, and diagramming application that you can use to create models, views, and visualizations. You can create static, dynamic, interactive, and animated visualizations (diagrams, sketches, drawings, and impressions).
Screenshot of the Visual Designer showing an Enterprise Architecture Blueprint.
You can create view templates, so if the data in your model changes, you do not need to redraw the visualization. You update the view with one click.
Supported Modeling Languages and Standards
The visual designer supports the following standards and modeling languages out of the box:
- Flowchart
- BPMN
- UML
- ArchiMate
- TOGAF
- Dragon1
Creating Diagrams in UML
Read more about UML Diagramming here in the Visual Designer.
BPMN Business Modeling
Read more about BPMN Business Modeling here in the Visual Designer.
Dynamic Views
A unique aspect of Dragon1 is that you can create visualization templates that generate shapes in a certain pattern using available data in a model.
Read more about Dynamic Views here.
Screenshots of the Visual Designer
Screenshot of a Created model
Created UML model in the Visual Designer.
Screenshot of a Dynamic Architecture Visualization
A dynamic visualization of a BPMN Process diagram in the Visual Designer.
Screenshot of a Generated model
The entities can be instantiated and related in the Architecture Repository or in the Visual Designer.
Overview of Key Features
Below is an overview of key features of the Visual Designer per Dragon1 edition.
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| 1. Create Models, Presentations, and Diagrams |
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| 2. Design, analyze, and customize templates for blueprints, frameworks, and landscapes to your desired situation |
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| 3. Create visualizations of Views and Perspectives based on models and meta models |
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| 4. Using modeling languages UML, ArchiMate, TOGAF, Dragon1, BPMN and Flowchart. |
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| 5. Check-in/out your work |
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| 6. Visualize Artist Impressions of Work Situations |
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| 7. Create Design Sketches of Business Concepts (Canvas) |
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| 8. Work with frames and layers |
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| 9. Work with splash patterns |
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| 10. Work with scenarios and storyboards |
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11. Tracking and Traceability.
Find and highlight chains of related items via context highlighting, defined view filters, or by item selection. |
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| 12. Using Visual Items (Data / Shape Placeholders) to generate dynamic visualizations |
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