Version 11 adds "link" binary fact type shapes (on which, see Halpin, T. and Morgan, T., INFORMATION MODELING AND RELATIONAL DATABASES, 2d ed., Morgan-Kaufmann, 2008, pp. 440 and ff., and/or see the enclosed readme file); improves users' ability to color fact type and role shapes; improves use of the template's macro that brings some shapes "to front" when manipulated; and moves the initial position of the deontic "o" on internal uniqueness constraints, to the end that is standard in ORM 2. As of versions 3 and 9, the readme file also includes new, better discussions of stencil version management, and of installation details.
The ORM2_Draw2 Visio stencil for ORM diagrams is an updating and upgrading of the ORM2_Draw Visio stencil which itself resulted from ORM stencil development by various people, including Peter Ritson, Terry Halpin, and Andy Carver. It is an updating in that it updates (for Visio 11, 12, and ff.) the Table shape, and includes the deontic constraints and value-comparison constraints. It is an upgrading in that it adds built-in shadowing (for fact types and object types), built-in text-arrows (for fact types), built-in constraint-connectors, and some adjustable-arity fact types, as well as several relatively minor upgrades and fixes, including internal and external frequency constraints.
Version 1's stencil (.vss) and template (.vst) files were created, based on ORM2_Draw, during the Winter of 2008-9, by Andy Carver with the help and supervision of Dr. Terry Halpin. The files have been tested and used pretty extensively in both Visio 10 and Visio 12. A readme.txt file is included.
Latest ReadMe text-file date: 9 May 2011.