Visio: Starting Usually in the Microsoft Office group Microsoft Office Visio 2008 Visio is very flexible, select a Category Software UML Model Diagram Now have a blank “canvas” named Drawing1

Visio: Using Select what you want to draw or diagram from the Shapes selection box E.g. UML Use Case Select an item to place and drag it to the canvas E.g. click on Actor and drag and drop it Drag and drop Use Case

Visio: Using Now lets join some stuff together Click on Communicates and drag it over toward Actor Note when an end with a little x on it is over a little x on Actor it turns red. Let loose of the Communicates when one end is over the Actor’s hand. The two are joined together as shown by the red square Click on the other green end and drag it over to a little x on the Use Case When they match the end turns red Let loose and the two are joined together

Visio: Using Actor and Use Case are now joined by a Communicates line Put the cursor over the actor When it turns into a big + click and drag the Actor somewhere Note the Communicates line stays joined to the actor and everything is redrawn in the new position

Visio: Using When an entity is dropped into the canvas the default name is the original name with a number. You should have an Actor named Actor1 and a Use Case named UseCase1 at this point Rename Actor1 Right click on Actor1 and select Properties In Name change Actor1 to ME and click OK Right click UseCase1 and select Properties Change UseCase1 to Uses Visio

Visio: Saving Click on File in the Action Bar Click Save As… If you are on Campus in the Novell Network you can save to your H: drive and have this work available anywhere you can log on the Novel Network Click on My Computer Select H: Select or create a new directory if desired Change the file name to one more appropriate Click Save