New Features: 6.6

Features	Astah Professional	Astah UML	Astah Community
Floating Topics in Mind Map	✓	✓	-
Activity Diagram 2.x Support	✓	✓	✓
New look on Plug-in dialog	✓	✓	✓
Note anchor to Attributes/Operations	✓	✓	✓
Launching with .exe (For Windows)	✓	✓	✓
Dashed line support in DFD	✓	-	-
Better visualization for diagram changes	✓	-	-
Instant visibility setting for diagrams	✓	✓	✓
Tab key to create new Mind Map topic	✓	✓	-
API Extension	✓	✓	✓

Please read the release notes for all the new features, improvements, and fixed bugs.

Floating Topics in Mind Map

Meet new feature "Floating Topic" in Astah's Mind Map! "Floating Topic" is a topic that does not belong to any branches. In version 6.5 or before, when you create new topics, you had to attach them to other relating topics. But you no longer have to. Now you can create new topics as many as you want as they pop in your head without having to worry about where they belong. They can be placed on Mind Map without finding where they should belong right away and place them in the right branches later when you sort them out. Also now you can put plural Mind Maps in one Mind Map editor which makes it very useful when you compare several Mind Maps on a same canvas or integrating them all together to complete one Mind Map.

Three ways to create a Floating Topic

Select "Floating Topic" from tool bar and click on Mind Map

Double-click on Mind Map
Select "Change to Floating" from existing Mind Map Topic's Pop-up menu to detach

Now you can have mulitple Mind Maps in one editor

Activity Diagram 2.x Support

More Activity Diagram 2.x options are now available.

Input Pin
Output Pin
Accept Time Event Action
Weight for Control Flow/Object Flow
Property settings for Ordering, Upper Bound, Control, Effect, Exception and Stream

New look for Plug-in dialogs

Handling Plug-ins has become much easier with new dialog. All installed Plug-ins appears in the list and now you can switch ON/Off from this dialog to use it.

Note anchor to Attributes/Operations

Now you can attach Notes to each Attributes and Operations for individual descriptions.

Launching with .exe (For Windows)

Astah now launches via an .exe file (previously a .bat file). A black dialog won't appear when launching Astah and you can add Astah to the quick launch bar in the task bar (in Windows).

Dashed line support in DFD

You are now able to draw DataFlow with a dashed line in a Data Flow Diagram.

Better visualization for diagram changes

The diagram difference guide has become more clear and intuitive to show every difference between two diagrams visually. ([Compare Project] - [Show Diagram Difference]).

Instant visibility setting for diagrams

[Apply to existing elements] button is added in the property of Class Diagram and Requirement Diagram to apply the display setting to the existing models instantly.

[Tab] key to create new topics in Mind Map

The [Tab] key will make it easier to insert new topics with these new shortcut keys!

[Tab] to insert a new Child Topic
[Shift] + [Tab] to insert a Parent Topic

All Astah Shortcut Keys

API Extension

Now the Astah API can detect when a model is selected in the Structure Tree or Diagram Editor in real time
API extension for floating topics in Mind Map
API extension for new models in Activity Diagram
API extension for Note anchors for Attributes/Operations
Now Shared line style of Generalization is available by API
Now Shared line style of nested relationship is available by API
Now Subtype relationship in ER diagram is available by API
API now enables Plug-in to receive the selection of models with Event

See the full Astah API.