Reverse Engineering Tool

The Reverse Engineering tool enables you to visualize the data and classes in Microsoft Dynamics AX by creating UML data and object models. These models are created as Microsoft Office Visio 2003 UML diagrams. This tool replaces the Visual MorphXplorer tool available in previous versions of Microsoft Dynamics AX.

NoteNote

To use the Reverse Engineering tool, Microsoft Office Visio 2003 or greater is required.


The Reverse Engineering tool creates models from application elements within a private or shared project. Therefore you must first create a project and move the elements that you want to model into the project. This tool is used to create the following types of models:

  • Data model - A data model reports on the tables in your implementation. It contains a class for each table in the project. The model contains the attributes and associations for each table, as well as field data types, indexes, and relationships. For more information about creating a data model, see Create a Data Model.

  • Object model - An object model reports on the classes, tables, and interfaces in your implementation. The object model contains an entity for each class, table, or interface in the project. The model contains the attributes for each class as well referenced tables and classes, extended data types, base enums, and native data types. The model also contains any classes that extend other classes, classes that implement an interface, and classes that call each other. For more information about creating an object model, see Create an Object Model.

The following table lists the elements that are included in the diagram for each model type.

Object model

Data model

Tables

Tables

Table fields

Each table's group property

Table methods

Table fields

Table method parameters

Field index information

Classes

All extended data types

All extended data types

All base enums

All base enums

All X++ data types

All X++ data types

All referenced tables

All referenced tables and classes

For more information about the reverse engineering tool, see Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0, Greef, Pontoppidan, et al, (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 2006), 66. For more information about this book, see Microsoft Learning.

Use the following procedure to open the Visio Reverse Engineering Form.

  • Right-click the project and select > .

Fields

Field

Description

This field defines the path and file name of the Visio file to be created. Click the folder icon to open the file browse dialog.

Select this option to create a .

Select this option to create an .

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