Setup of Eclipse for MagicDraw development

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Preparatory on macOS

  1. Ensure that ~/windows-shared is shared between the VMware Windows OS and macOS.
  2. In that directory, create subdirectories mac-workspace, windows-workspace, and projects-shared
  3. Also create projects-shared/magicdraw and projects-shared/smartfacts
  4. If setting up as if new, rm -rf ~/.eclipse /Applications/Eclipse.app eclipse-workspace/.metadata ~/Library/*/org.eclipse* (or substitute workspace to delete .metadata)

On macOS

  1. Open MagicDraw .dmg, drag Eclipse.app to /Applications
  2. Choose ~/windows-shared/mac-workspace as workspace (and check “Use this as the default and do not ask again”)
  3. Open Eclipse -> Help -> Install New Software...
    • Choose “All Available Sites"
    • Enter filter text: “eclipse sdk"
    • Select “Eclipse SDK”. Do not select anything else.
    • Next, Next, accept the terms, Finish
    • Wait for Eclipse to finish the install, but don’t restart
    • Quit
  4. Open /Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/Eclipse/eclipse.ini and delete the lines referencing “smallFonts”. Start Eclipse
  5. In bash, cd into ~/windows-shared/projects-shared/magicdraw
  6. In bash, unzip /Applications/MagicDraw/openapi/ide/eclipse.zip
  7. In bash, rm -rf com.nomagic.*
  8. In Eclipse
  • File -> Import… -> Existing files into workspace
  • Select root directory: ~/windows-shared/projects-shared/magicdraw
  • Choose all six available projects
  • Select Finish

9. In Eclipse: 1. Right-click on MAGIC_DRAW_INSTALL_DIRECTORY, select Properties 2. Click on Location Edit 3. Choose Folder, and brows to /Applications/MagicDraw 4. OK 5. Apply and Close 10. In Eclipse: 1. Double-click on MagicDraw bundles+Running Platform.target 2. Click Set as Active Target Platform 3. You should now have no errors 4. You may have a few warnings; these can be ignored for now 11. In Eclipse: 1. Open Run -> Run Configurations 2. Choose OSGI Framework -> MagicDraw with all plugins 3. Run 12. In Eclipse: 1. Select com.nomagic.magicdraw.integration* projects 2. Choose Delete 3. Yes, delete on-disk contents too 13. In Eclipse: 1. Eclipse -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts -> Text Font -> Edit: set to 13 or 14 point. Apply. 2. Eclipse -> Preferences -> General -> Keys 

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