The current 10.2 release of ArcGIS Diagrammer does not work with ArcGIS Desktop 10.3 and will be the final Diagrammer release according to the link here.
ArcGIS Diagrmmer functionality is needed for ArcGIS Desktop 10.3.
I have been using the Geodatabase Designer a lot in previous versions of ArcGIS. It is a really helpfull tool for buliding and maintaining geodatabases. Once you understand the concepts, you can do all of your changes in the XML file, and then import the file into a new version of the geodatabase. For instance changing/adding/removing domain values, fields and field types etc. The HTML-presentation of the geodatabase is also very helpfull, it gives you much better overview then you can get in Catalog. Without this tool, I think my work with building and maintaining geodatabases will be much more cumbersome. Please include it in ArcGIS 10!
GD2 was integral in facilitating our rebuilds of geometric networks. The ability to quickly export a GMN schema and re-import all the carefully designed rules into the rebuilt network has been a lifesaver. Even if one ignores the possibility of human error, the manual method of adding rules to a new GMN in ArcCatalog can take a long long time.
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I'm not completely on board with merging all of these into one extension. The geodatabase CASE tools (Designer, Diagrammer & Reporter) should be combined in a single extension.
GDBT is for managing an existing geodatabase and has nothing to do with schema design; it should be a separate extension.
Likewise, MXDPERFSTAT is for tuning mxd's; it has nothing to do with either schema design or geodatabase management. It should be a separate extension.
All of these tools are extremely useful and should be enhanced, extended and incorporated into the base product at 10.x. (But as three extensions, not one.)
It provides some simple ArcGIS 10 add-ins that make designing and documentation GDBs and maps simpler. It provides a practical alternative to CASE tools and Diagrammer tools with Excel editing and HTML document/SVG diagrams for output.
I've been using ArcGIS Diagrammer to build a fairly complex electric distribution and transmission model, and one thing I just found that it could do that would have saved me a couple of days of sleuthing is detecting incompatible relationship classes. I had accidentally created 2 feature classes duplicated composite relationships, and no good way to tell which one was faulty. My only recourse was to import into arccatalog repeatedly until I narrowed it down to a small enough set to analyze. This would be a good thing to catch on the Validate command.
