Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering is used by partners to easily retrieve detailed information
about the structures and relationships of the Microsoft Dynamics AX business
logic and data model. The goals of reverse engineering are to extract
relationships, and integrate and view collections in Microsoft Office Visio as
UML diagrams.
The feature handles both reverse engineering of the data model and the object
model.
You can use the Reverse Engineering tool to visualize data and object models
generated from projects in Microsoft Dynamics AX. These models are created as
Microsoft Visio documents.
To open the Reverse Engineering tool, right-click a project and select Add- ins >
Reverse engineer.
The information Microsoft Dynamics AX provides Visio depends on whether
you are creating a data or an object model from a project. The following table
shows what is provided for each model type:

Data Model	Object Model
Tables	●	●
Table Group property	●
Table Fields	●	●
Table Index information	●
Table Methods and parameters	●

Data Model	Object Model
Classes (extended and referenced)	●
All Extended Data Types	●	●
All Base Enums	●	●
All X++ Data Types	●	●

Procedure: Reverse Engineering an Object ModelPerform the following steps to generate an object model that is based on elements
included in a project.
1. Create a project.
2. Drag AOT elements into the project you want to reverse engineer
into an object model.
3. Right-click the project and select Add- ins > Reverse engineer.
4. Click Visio UML Object model to create a UML object model.
5. Select a name and path for the file and then click OK.
6. From Microsoft Visio, drag object nodes into the center grid to lay
out the desired model.Procedure: Reverse Engineering a Data ModelPerform the following steps to generate a data model that is based on elements
included in a project.
1. Create a project.
2. Drag the AOT elements into the project you want to reverse engineer
into a data model.
3. Right-click the project and select Add-ins > Reverse engineer.
4. Click Visio UML Data model to create a UML data model.
5. Select a name and path for the file and then click OK.
6. From Microsoft Visio drag table nodes into the center grid to lay out
the desired model

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Hossein Karimi