Version 15 adds nicer automatic positioning of the predicate text upon rotation of a fact type: the text never overlaps the fact-type shape; adds fact-type and object-type rotation in 90-degree increments, when rotating them via their rotation handle(s) (thanks to Dr. Roger Cass for both these great ideas!); and improves the text-parsing code used by the shadow-setting macro, making it more robust. 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. Since version 1, many other improvements have been added (see the readme file).
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: 1 September 2011.