It means you now have a search engine in addition to an index, enabling you to find the information you need quickly and efficiently. Perhaps most importantly, it means you will always be able to get the latest, most useful information. Testing System Architect enables you to specify and trace requirements, test plans, change requests, business objectives, and a multitude of other work products. Extensibility System Architect's multi-user, repository environment features a renowned ability to easily customize the underlying metamodel of information stored, enabling users to tailor the tool to meet the exact modeling needs for their project. Customizable Metamodel System Architect is renowned for the customizable metamodel to its underlying repository.
Users can create their own definition types, and add new properties to new or existing definitions.
New functionality enables users to create new diagram types and new symbol types, and to specify how symbols are depicted on diagrams. You can use industry standard Microsoft VBA to customize rules, generation, interfaces and reports in System Architect. The Microsoft VBA development environment is provided natively, and can be launched from within System Architect. A number of sample macro projects are provided, including a dozen different sample macros to start off with, from automatic coloring of relationship lines to generating a UML Class diagram from a process model. Matrix Editors M atrix editors have been introduced to support definitions within business enterprise modeling and IDEF diagrams, but they can also support any other definitions within System Architect.