Easy Transition from Documents to Models
Good news for modelers, who frequently exchange information with project stakeholders that are not modelers and work exclusively with documents! Information exchange becomes easier and faster, because now you can copy listed texts and tables to your MagicDraw model directly from documents, web pages, email messages, presentations, or other text sources.
When you copy a listed text, each item of this list becomes a new named element in your model (to simplify the creation, basic numbering and bullets are not reproduced in the model).
Elements can be created either in the Containment tree or on the diagram pane, as you can see in the following figures.
When you copy a table, each row becomes the corresponding element with its properties. If elements already exist in the model, the information updates.
Projects with File and Report Template Attachments
Do you use hyperlinks to external files in your project? If so, then you must be familiar with the common issues:
- The project references the file, but not its particular version. Hence, as soon as the newer version of this file is committed to your version control system, the project starts referencing inappropriate information.
- If you have a systems specification consisting of a set of models and documents, you need to manually collect the referenced files before giving the entire specification to your peers.
- It takes time to establish a commonly accessible location (e.g., a network drive) where you share hyperlinked files from models to your colleagues.
The latest version of the product includes the solution! Now you can attach any type of file to your project simply by dragging the file icon from the file system to the Model Browser. The particular file version becomes embedded in this project. The contents of the attached file can be modified and the changes are instantly saved to the project.
Attached files can be:
- Hyperlinked from model elements.
- Inserted into rich text format (HTML) and displayed on diagrams (image files only).
- Included in reports.
- Reused in other projects.
Report templates from the local report templates folder can be attached to your project too. For this, use the new functions of the Report Wizard dialog.
Projects with File and Report Template Attachments
 | Do you use hyperlinks to external files in your project? If so, then you must be familiar with several common issues that are solved in the latest version of MagicDraw. Now you can attach any type of file to your project! Report templates from the local report templates folder can be attached to your project too. Learn more |
Transferring Projects between Consciously Disconnected Environments
| Teamwork Servers, which run in consciously disconnected or secured environments, can still exchange projects! MagicDraw Teamwork Server 18.1 supports transferring project data from one Teamwork Server to another by using any external storage device, such as CD, DVD, hard disc, or flash memory device. Learn more |  |
 | Now with the Relation Map you can do more than just analysis! You can expand your model with new elements or edit the names of the existing ones directly in the relation map. Learn more |
| Smarter diagram layout, simplified search options, more efficient synchronization of elements and their properties, rake icon, and many more features save modeler's time and allow focusing on what to model, but not how to model and keep the result well-formed. Learn more |  |
Conceptual changes in modules
Miscellaneous
File Format Changes
Open API Changes