Create a Basic Architecture Visualization

This tutorial introduces the Dragon1 software to you as a novice user. In small steps, you work towards a complete architecture visualization.

This tutorial consists of 12 steps, and each step is a lesson of about 45 min. Including exercise questions and assignments.

This is an example of the architecture visualization you will create.

An Example Architecture Visualization created in this Tutorial.

At any time, if you are a holder of a valid Dragon1 user account, you can use the Dragon1 ITSM portal to ask questions about this tutorial.

Overview of the twelve steps as modules

1. Module 1: Setup default dossier and folder structure
2. Module 2: Insert an Entity
3. Module 3: Create a Visualization Canvas
4. Module 4: Insert a Visual Item
5. Module 5: Create a Model and a View
6. Module 6: Create a Visualization
7. Module 7: Insert a View layout and text items in the border
8. Module 8: Insert Bitmaps, Models, and Visualizations on a Visualization
9. Module 9: Insert Domains, Functions, and Services on a Visualization
10. Module 10: Define Indicators to show dependencies
11. Module 11: Create a Viewpoint to Highlight status with colors
12. Module 12: Generate a document with the visualization and text

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