Software Ideas Modeler 15.50 – Model Health, Diagram Readability, and Enhanced Mind Maps
New Diagram Readability Feature
The new Diagram Readability sidebar helps you improve the visual quality of your diagrams. It analyzes common readability problems and provides feedback about issues that may make diagrams harder to understand.
The readability analysis can detect overlapping elements, crossing connectors, low contrast text, isolated clusters, elements outside the visible diagram area, and overly complex diagrams or connectors. UML-specific readability rules were also added for use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and state diagrams.
New Model Health Feature
Software Ideas Modeler 15.50 adds a new Model Health sidebar that checks the structure and consistency of your model. It helps you identify problems that may affect the quality, completeness, and maintainability of your project.
Model Health can analyze documentation coverage, missing and duplicate names, empty diagrams and folders, unused model elements, broken references, incomplete relationships, and circular dependencies across multiple UML relationship types.
Improved Status Bar Feedback
The status bar now includes model health and diagram readability indicators. This gives you quick feedback about the current state of your model and diagram without opening the sidebars manually.
The indicators make it easier to notice quality issues early and keep your project cleaner while you work.
New Mind Map Node Types
Mind maps now support several additional node types, allowing you to better express different kinds of ideas and information. New node types include topics, central topics, ideas, notes, questions, tasks, goals, problems, resources, groups, decisions, and plain text nodes.
This makes mind maps more flexible for brainstorming, planning, analysis, and lightweight project organization.
Toolbox Ordering Options
The toolbox context menu now includes new options for ordering tools. You can keep the default order, sort tools alphabetically, or order them by priority.
This makes it easier to customize how tools are presented in the toolbox and quickly access the elements you use most often.
New Context Bar Action for UI Scrollbars
A new context bar action was added for UI scrollbars: Switch Orientation. This provides a faster way to change scrollbar orientation directly from the context bar when working with UI wireframes and interface designs.
Release Notes
New Features and Improvements
- New Diagram Readability feature
- New Diagram Readability sidebar
- Detects overlapping elements
- Detects crossing connectors
- Detects low contrast text
- Detects isolated clusters
- Detects elements outside the visible area
- Detects overly complex diagrams and connectors
- Added UML-specific readability rules for use case, activity, and state diagrams
- New Model Health feature
- New Model Health sidebar
- Documentation coverage analysis
- Detection of missing and duplicate names
- Detection of empty diagrams and folders
- Detection of unused model elements
- Detection of broken references
- Detection of incomplete relationships
- Detection of circular dependencies across multiple UML relationship types
- Added support for various mind map node types
- Improved status bar with model health and diagram readability statuses
- Added context menu options for ordering tools in the toolbox
- Tools can be ordered by priority
- Tools can be ordered alphabetically
- Added new context bar action for UI scrollbars: Switch Orientation
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