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Visio 2010 Beta can generate static UML diagram from Native C++ project, and it s great. How is it possible to solve reverse problem: given a static UML diagram from Visio, generate header files?

Or, maybe, there are free tools for architecture development and reverse engineering?

EDIT Generally speaking, I don t need diagrams to be strictly UML. They just should be clear enough to look at them and understand classes during designing application, implementing and supporting. But it must have a feature of reverse-engineering and generating code.

I ll try to use offered alternatives in several days and then write a little comparison.

ArgoUML I tried to import my existing code and failed. The reason is that C++ support is pre-alpha. Many constructions of the language are not supported yet. From MessageBox shown while importing:

The C++ reverse engineering module is pre-alpha stage. Its known limits are:

* very few C++ constructs are supported, e.g., enums, unions, templates, etc, aren t;
* no support for non-member variables and functions;
* no integration with the C++ generator => RTE won t work!;
* no operator overload support;
* very immature, certainly this list needs to grow!

Answer 1

Bring up diagram in Visio
Bring up Visual Studio, open c++ project.
Start typing in code :)

Seriously, Viso is a visual tool and represents it s data in a form best suited to rendering. This lacks information needed to construct a code model from it, unless it were to use some complex vision and edge detection algorithms.

So, I don t think there will be any such tool out there.

Answer 2

StarUML is a free (and better) alternative with code generation possibility.
Most paid UML tools generate code too.

Answer 3

ArgoUML is a nice, free tool that can generate UML class diagrams then generate source code from the diagram. ArgoUML can output code in several languages, including C++.

You can find it at: http://argouml.tigris.org

Answer 4

Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems has worked well for me.

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