Author: Phillipus

Presented a preview of the new features of Archi 1.5 at the EAPG meeting in Liverpool. The Magic Connector went down well. I took a tip from Apple’s marketing with “The Magic Connector”. You can remember something with a name like that. Nice people in the EAPG.

I’m coding like a madman on Archi to implement the brown paper Sketch View, requiring lots of refactoring. The Sketch View is inspired by the ArchiMate specification document defining an “Introductory viewpoint”: “The Introductory viewpoint forms a subset of the full ArchiMate language using a simplified notation. It is typically used at the start of […]

Another update, adding a few features and fixing some niggles. + A model and its views can be exported as an HTML report + User-created sub-folders can be added to the “Views” folder + Can now set font colour for elements and connections in Views + Extraneous white space is trimmed off exported images + […]

Another version of Archi out today. Ladies and Gentlemen, we bring you…1.3… + User-created sub-folders can be added to the Model Tree + Model Tree elements and user-folders are automatically sorted alphabetically + Drag and drop elements to user-folders in the Model Tree + Search Bar added to the Model Tree for filtered search of […]

Stephen Powell of IEC has published a nice blog post on Archi – Why is Archi Significant?

Today we released Archi version 1.2. A lot of time was spent investigating and implementing some support for Derived Relations. That wasn’t easy. + Implemented Derived Relations (FR #3038359) + Export Model to BizzDesign XML format + Windows version has installer + Launch Archi from .archimate files on Windows (that’s why we need a Windows […]

Today we released Archi version 1.1. + Font support for View figures and connections + Can set the default font to use for elements’ text in Preferences + Elements in Model Tree that are not referenced in any View are shown in italic font (FR #3025595) + Added table to “Analysis” Properties tab for an […]

We released Archi version 1.0 today. Hope you like it.

A Post from the JISC Curriculum and Design Blog here.

To a Birmingham EAPG meeting to give the first public demo of a beta version of the tool. It went well. Many people are using [another vendor’s shit], a very comprehensive tool, though fucking expensive.