If you need to open a model of a different format or created with another UML tool, you have to import it to MagicDraw instead of simply opening it. MagicDraw allows importing projects from the following file formats:

• Another .mdzip project
• Excel/CSV File
• UML 2.1/2.5 XMI File
• MagicDraw Native XML File
• MOF XMI File
• CA ERwin Data Modeler v7.x
• Requirements Interchange Format (ReqIF) File
• OWL Ontology File
• Eclipse UML2 (v2.x, v3.x, v4.x, v5.x) XMI file
• XPDL File
• FMU File
• Simulink File
• Modelica Library

• Enterprise Architect UML 2.1 XMI 2.1 File. Data can be imported from an Enterprise Architect 7.1, 7.5, or 8.0 file.

  Please note that Enterprise Architect does not export 100% standard UML 2.1 XMI, and this causes some data loss during the import.

  
  

• Use Sodius to import data from the following products:
  
  • Publisher for Rational Software Architect

  • Publisher for System Architect

  • Publisher for Rhapsody

• UML diagrams from Microsoft Visio using XMI files.
  

  Microsoft Visio 2007 and earlier requires extra add-ons for exporting UML model to XMI files.

  
  

To import an external model

1. Select File > Import From.
2. Select a file format you want to import a model from.