A free Step by Step guide to learning Sparx Enterprise Architect [closed]

Question

I have just downloaded Sparx Enterprise Architect 7.5 but unfortunately I am not able to find a getting started guide or something like that.

I have gone through official site of Sparx but there is not step by step guide to learning Sparx EA.

I want a guide that will implement a small project and give instructions step by step so that I can understand and try out Sparx EA.

I did find a few sites selling step by step guides but at this point of time I do not want to spend money on them.

Orpah

see my answer under #2388809 – Artist

The first things that were confusing to me: *Model: Each root node of the project is a model element. *Package: A grouping element that contains other elements(including other packages) and diagrams. *View: A top level package element. I learned these through the online docs pages such as this:sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.1/…, this:sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.1/modeling/… and this:sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.1/… – Tourniquet

Answer 1

You should see Getting Started docked on the left in EA

alt text http://www.cmsjr.com/img/eaGettingStarted.jpg

Abatement

Thanks, I missed the Getting Started docked on right in my case. – Orpah

I tried this link today and got a 404 not found error and the base URL www.cmsjr.com looks like a stub that hasn't been updated in 7 years, so I think this link is dead. – Herewith

Answer 2

See also Enterprise Architect Product Demonstrations and the UML Tutorials.

Keep in mind, this is a UML tool. It's possible that part of what you need is a step by step guide to understanding UML. If these tutorials don't help you, I suggest UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (3rd Edition) by Martin Fowler. Before reading this book, I felt that UML was this huge, tangled ball of twine. This book showed me the starting point, from which I was able to unravel the ball of twine.

Gustation