Software Ideas Modeler 15.30 – Smarter Layouts, Better UI, and Enhanced Documentation

Enhanced Quick Diagrams

Creating diagrams is now faster and more intuitive thanks to improvements in the Quick Diagram feature. You can use new options like Specific Box/Connector and Last Used Box/Connector, which significantly speed up repetitive modeling tasks and reduce the need for constant tool switching.

Additionally, whenever you create a new type of element in the diagram, it is automatically added to the toolbox, allowing you to insert it again instantly without searching through the full element selection dialog.

Improved Snaplines in Complex Scenarios

Snaplines have been further refined to behave more reliably even in dense and complex diagrams. This ensures precise alignment across multiple elements and helps maintain clean, professional layouts without extra manual adjustments.

Improved Snaplines

New “Add into Container” Workflow

A new context menu action “Add into Container” introduces a more streamlined way to organize elements within containers. Combined with a redesigned layout behavior, this makes structuring diagrams more efficient and predictable.

Add into a container with a specific layout

Smarter Layouts for Wireframes and Funnels

Basic smart layout has been refined and optimized especially for wireframe diagrams, improving automatic arrangement of UI elements. Additionally, vertical and horizontal funnel layouts have been enhanced, offering better visual clarity for process and flow modeling.

Refined User Interface Visual Style

This version delivers a noticeable visual refresh across the application. Updates include a redesigned tree view, improved menus and list selections, and a more polished settings panel.

Extended Support for UI Elements

Breadcrumb elements are now supported in User Interface Diagrams, along with auto-size functionality for Breadcrumb and Button Group elements. Auto-sizing has also been extended to labeled elements such as UML Decision, Merge, Initial/Final State, Flow Final, History, and Entry/Exit Point, ensuring better adaptability and cleaner visuals.

Enhanced Interactive Documentation

Interactive documentation generation has been expanded with several powerful additions. A new Glossary section helps organize terminology, while support for Styles allows more customization of generated outputs. A new pack of 5 predefined styles is also included, making it easier to create visually appealing documentation.

Stability and Reliability Improvements

This release resolves several issues affecting stability and usability. Crashes related to sequence diagram fragments, stereotype editing, and invalid element dimensions have been fixed. Improvements were also made to undo behavior when working with containers and to UI interactions such as combo box selection. Additionally, incorrect links in generated documentation have been corrected.

Release Notes

New Features and Improvements

Enhanced Quick Diagram with Specific Box/Connector and Last Used Box/Connector
Improved snaplines in complex diagrams
Added “Add into Container” context menu action with new layout behavior
Refined smart layout optimized for wireframes
Improved vertical and horizontal funnel layouts
Updated visual style of tree view, menus, list selections, and settings panel
Enhanced Breadcrumb rendering and introduced new style with small arrows
Added Breadcrumb support to User Interface Diagrams
Added auto-size support for Breadcrumb, Button Group, and multiple labeled elements
Added Glossary section to interactive documentation
Added support for Styles in documentation generation
Introduced 5 new styles for interactive documentation