I have added a note with about 50 lines of text to an UML diagram in Visio 2010, and I can't resize the shape. I can see connection points, but not the blue ones that you can drag to resize the shape. Modifying the height manually through View menu, Task Panes, Size & Position, doesn't work either.
How to resize a note in a Visio 2010 UML diagram
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ObjectAid UML Explorer
Is what I used. It is easily installed from the repository:
Name: ObjectAid UML Explorer
Location: http://www.objectaid.com/update/current
And produces quite nice UML diagrams:
Description from the website:
The ObjectAid UML Explorer is different from other UML tools. It uses the UML notation to show a graphical representation of existing code that is as accurate and up-to-date as your text editor, while being very easy to use. Several unique features make this possible:
- Your source code and libraries are the model that is displayed, they are not reverse engineered into a different format.
- If you update your code in Eclipse, your diagram is updated as well; there is no need to reverse engineer source code.
- Refactoring updates your diagram as well as your source code. When you rename a field or move a class, your diagram simply reflects the changes without going out of sync.
- All diagrams in your Eclipse workspace are updated with refactoring changes as appropriate. If necessary, they are checked out of your version control system.
- Diagrams are fully integrated into the Eclipse IDE. You can drag Java classes from any other view onto the diagram, and diagram-related information is shown in other views wherever applicable.
They are simply showed like this:
_______________________
| <<enumeration>> |
| DaysOfTheWeek |
|_____________________|
| Sunday |
| Monday |
| Tuesday |
| ... |
|_____________________|
And then just have an association between that and your class.
Best Answer
You can format the text using shift / enter for line breaks to change the shape of the text which will change the shape of the box. Not elegant but workable.