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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.

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Yogi Yang 007
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    see my answer under http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2388309/sparx-system-enterprise-architect-book – rk. May 01 '10 at 14:54
  • 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:https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.1/modeling_tools/packagetasks.html, this:https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.1/modeling/manageviews.html and this:https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.1/model_navigation/viewcontextmenu.html – aderchox May 22 '20 at 20:58

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You should see Getting Started docked on the left in EA

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

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  • Thanks, I missed the Getting Started docked on right in my case. – Yogi Yang 007 Jun 10 '09 at 07:02
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    I tried this link today and got a `404 not found` error and the base URL [www.cmsjr.com](http://www.cmsjr.com) looks like a stub that hasn't been updated in 7 years, so I think this link is dead. – Gdalya May 14 '18 at 19:21
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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.

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