Software Ideas Viewer Portable

While Software Ideas Modeler is a comprehensive utility that packs a multitude of tools you could turn to when creating diagrams, its stripped-down counterpart, Software Ideas Viewer Portable, simply enables you to explore projects and make adjustments to a limited number of aspects.

Being a portable program, it requires no installation, which makes your interaction with it hassle-free. As for the GUI you are prompted with, it need be mentioned that it looks and feels approachable, and it organizes the feature set in a neat way.

Accessing the “File” menu is the way to open a Software Ideas Modeler diagram, at which point you can see its thumbnail in the main window. There are multiple options in terms of viewing your diagram since you can fit it to the window, width, or height as well as turn to fullscreen.

As for how you can interact with these projects, it should be pointed out that the “Home” section lets you change various project, folder, and diagram properties.

As such, the name, author, description, documentation, and tagged values can be modified, along with all used elements. In this regard, the Element Browser should really come in handy since it allows you to inspect each element’s name, ID, type, system type, and repository.

Aside from that, it should be noted that Software Ideas Viewer Portable lets you associate multiple diagrams or renounce this link between them. Displaying or hiding creators and participants should raise no difficulty either and is supposed to be done just as easily as revealing info on whether a specific element has been used more than once.

The quality of the diagram rendering can be selected as well, with four different options being available for you to choose from, namely draft, normal, best, and anti-aliasing.

On an ending note, Software Ideas Viewer Portable is a complementary tool aimed at Software Ideas Modeler users. It serves a rather narrow purpose, namely that of offering a clutter-free environment to view diagrams, and while it does deliver on this front, we have noticed some performance issues during its runtime. The app crashed at random times, which could be a deal-breaker for those of you who plan on working with it for more than a couple of minutes.