MySQL Workbench

Hi everybody,

I have realized that lot of people mistake ORM Designer with other visualization and ERD modeling tools. That is bad news because ORM Designer is unique with its support of ORM frameworks. To fight this, we have started a series of comparison articles.

We don’t just model ERDs or visualize the database. We enable you to view your projects, import, edit the visual model and export your projects in Doctrine, Doctrine 2, Propel or CakePHP. With ORM Designer you can just concentrate on the creative part of your work.

Our first comparison is with MySQL Workbench. It is a great and powerful tool, it just deals with databases directly and does not care about the ORM frameworks at all. If you are working with ORM you would miss on all the advantages ORM Designer can give you, if you just took it for MySQL Workbench clone.

Check out the for MySQL Workbench comparison article for more.

This is a step-by-step tutorial about importing existing MySql Workbench model to ORM Designer.

1. As first step create a new project or open your existing project where  you want to import your MySql Workbench file.
2. When you have your project created or opened, choose Import Existing Data to Modelfrom Import menu.
3. Now select MySql Workbench import and press Import.
4. On a next screen select existing MySQL workbench file and destination module where you want to import selected model.
5. When you are done press  import and ORM Designer automatically import your model. After a while you will see result like this:

And we’re done.