Public diagrams from Model Xtractor are shared and can be easily published on any other site, using one of our plugins. You’ll instantly get the real size image, eventually shrinked to fit within available space, with nice Edit/View/Print buttons below. Protected diagrams, created by and available only to registered subscribers, expose only their 200 pixels wide shadowed thumbnails.

Removing a shape will always delete the shape from the diagram with all its incoming and outgoing connectors. Removing a connector will also collapse back all items expanded into that connector. When last item of a connector is manually collapsed, the connector is also automatically removed from the diagram. Items cannot be deleted, but they can be hidden.

A common practice in object-oriented programming is to use the dot notation recursively on existing objects: to extract another object from some member returned type, then call another method on this object and so on, until you get to the piece of information you really look for. The intermediate objects serve only as extractors for the next object. Model Xtractor adds a small but very powerful feature to a shape, in order to adjust and better represent object scenarios, directly from the class diagrams: the possibility to minimize it. Minimized shapes appear as small circles with just the icon inside. Only the inner/outer connectors and their items are visible. A particular application of minimized shapes is for arrays and collections, that represent intermediate container types and appear minimized by default. Other kinds of minimal shapes, that look like small circles, are annotations (i.e. minimized comment shapes), implementors (for implemented interfaces) and instantiators (for public instance constructors). Instantiators can be used as entry points, for instantiable types, along with static type members or global functions.

Shape and connector selections are moved around by grabbing the header area of any selected shape. Connectors are automatically rerouted, unless you opt for manual routing, by changing their selector positions. Default order of shape or connector items can be changed by selecting one or more items, then dragging and dropping them over another similar item of the parent element.

Index or dictionary or terms used in the Model Xtractor platform, specific to X-Model or other modeling languages.