How to copy UML Diagram to another Visio file with non-UML Diagram template

Hi,

      I have two Visio Files, created in Visio 2010. One of the Visio File has been created under the UML Model Diagram Template and the other under non UML diagram template. I need to create a new file, which is a combination of both of these diagrams. The new file will have to two pages. One page will have the UML Sequence Diagram while the other will have the non UML Sequence Diagram. Both the pages size is same, A4.

     So I created a new Blank Visio Diagram, selected all the components from the non-UML Diagram Template by going to Home > Select > Select All option, and then pasted them in the new Visio Diagram. The new Blank Visio Diagram was created using the menu option File > New > Blank Drawing. Then I created a new blank page. Finall I went to the file which had the UML Diagram Template selected all the components by going to Home > Select > Select All option, went to the new Diagram and pasted all the UML Components over there. The components came up fine.

     However in the new Visio Diagram file when I try to open any of the UML Shapes, i.e. Message or State or any other it gives me the error,

"This UML shape exists on a drawing page which is not part of a UML model diagram.
This shape is designed to work in drawings created using the UML Model Diagram template."

     So the question is can i combine two visio files, each with their own templates into a single file? And can I add a more than one template to visio file? If answer to any or both of these questions is yes then how?

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Amardeep Verma

April 2nd, 2015 4:51am

Yes, but you'll have to copy the non-UML shapes into the UML drawing.

The UML diagrams rely on an addin within Visio that is initiated by the template, starting with a different template will stop all that functionality from working.

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April 2nd, 2015 5:20am

Hi Paul,

       So I have to create a new Visio File with UML Diagram Template then copy both the diagrams into their respective pages into the new Visio File.

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Amardeep

April 2nd, 2015 6:49am

Well, sort of, but why create a new diagram? You already have the UML diagr am, just copy the other one into it.

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April 2nd, 2015 7:21am

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