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Version 8, released February 2022, UA version August 2022, CZ version October 2022, FR version June 2023
Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer la disponibilité de la version française d’arc42 - merci beaucoup à Damien Lucas. Bon travail!
We are so happy to announce the availability of the Czech version of arc42 - thanx to Jakub RC. You rock!
We are incredibly happy to announce the availability of the Ukrainian version of arc42 - thanx to Ivan Bulyk and support from Larysa Visengeriyeva.
Personal note from Gernot Starke, April 2022: As a consequence to the inhuman and cruel invasion of Ukraine, we want to cut all ties to Russia. Even if it’s only a small gesture, we decided to remove the Russian version from our repositories.
On this page you find all available arc42 template downloads, various formats for various tools. For an overview of these formats, see below.
File-based formats
These formats are generated based upon their AsciiDoc sources from the Github repository.
Confluence format
Confluence versions are generated with help and come in two flavors:
- flat: all sections on a single page
- structured: one Confluence page per arc42-section
| Language | flat | structured |
|---|---|---|
| DE | .zip | .zip |
| EN | .zip | .zip |
Unfortunately, we cannot generate for the latest versions confluence. It is based upon an older version of the template - due to technical difficulties in generating confluence from asciidoc.
Notes for Confluence users
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We stopped operating a public confluence instance.
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If you consider to use confluence, the asciidoc2confluence script might be helpful.
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There is also a confluence plugin available from the atlassian market place.
Legacy Version (arc42 v6) for Confluence
If you still use confluence version 4 or 5, these legacy downloads might help you
| Confluence version | Language | With Help |
|---|---|---|
| 5.x | EN | .zip |
| >4.3 | EN | .zip |
| 5.x | DE | .zip |
| >4.3 | DE | .zip |
These legacy versions have been provided (thanx!) by arc42 users - and can not be supported by us (as we don’t have access to these legacy Confluence versions).
Doxygen format
Doxygen is the de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources, but it also supports other popular programming languages such as C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL (Corba, Microsoft, and UNO/OpenOffice flavors), Fortran, and to some extent D. Doxygen also supports the hardware description language VHDL.
| doxygen |
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| doxygen arc42 template: arc42_doxygen_template.zip |
This template is available in EN only. Contributed by Stephan Lessing, February 2023.
Enterprise Architect© format
Enterprise Architect;copy; is a commercial UML modeling tool by SparxSystems.
The Enterprise-Architect version of arc42 contains only the diagram-intensive parts of the arc42 structure without help text. It’s available in EN only.
Please use this format only as a companion to any textual or wiki format, as it does not contain any explanations or rationales. Put your diagrams into an EA model, but text and tables should be created, kept and maintained differently.
Please note: This template reflects version 6, and has not been updated since approx. 2015 (volunteer maintainers welcome!)
| Enterprise Architect EAP |
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| Short EA template: arc42-V6-short.eap.zip |
IBM Rhapsody© format
Rhapsody© is a commercial modeling tool by IBM, primarily suited for embedded systems.
The Rhapsody version of arc42 contains the complete parts of the arc42 structure with minimum help text. It’s available in EN only. This rhapsody arc42 profile includes the complete arc42 structure within Rhapsody using UML/SysML.
This version has been created and tested with Rhapsody version 8.2.1.
It contains following items in the zip archive:
- rhapsody_arc42_profile Rhapsody project. In this Rhapsody project following model is contained:
- rhapsody_arc42_profile which comprises of stereotypes required for establishing arc42 structure
- place holder to start adding your project
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rhapsody_arc42_report_generation folder for Report generation which contains IBM RPE template required to generate Report out of the Rhapsody model.
- rhapsody_example_arc42_for_arc42 example Rhapsody project called. In this Rhapsody project following model is incorporated
- example_arc42_for_arc42 a small example where all the chapters are explained on why arc42 with arc42 structure
- usage of rhapsody_arc42_profile within
- rhapsody_arc42_getting_started_guide.docx which explains the usage of rhapsody arc42 profile
We appreciate the contribution of user @nrnjnsk83 (Niranjan SK, Robert Bosch GmbH), who produced and contributed the Rhapsody version for arc42!
| IBM Rhapsody arc42 Template |
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| arc42-v1-rhapsody.zip |
Formats for other modeling tools
We currently don’t support additional modeling tools - but would love to… In case you use arc42 with such a tool, please think about contributing :-)
Please contact us!
Format overview
- docx
- Microsoft Word, usable with LibreOffice or OpenOffice
- asciidoc
- Powerful yet simple markup language, used by arc42 itself. Ideally suited for architecture documentation. See docToolchain or the original source.
- markdown
- Widespread and simple markup language, documented here by its inventor.
- markdown (strict)
- A restricted markup, documented here by its inventor.
- markdownMP
- Same format as markdown above but every chapter is located in its own file.
- gitHubMarkdown
- GitHub Flavored Markdown is a dialect of Markdown that is used on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise. See the article here .
- gitHubMarkdownMP
- Same format as gitHubMarkdown above but every chapter is located in its own file.
- latex
- No, not the rubber stuff, but the mother (despite TeX) of all markup languages, a full-blown document preparation system. For those who need beauty and are willing to invest some effort…
- rst
- ReStructuredText, markup language, heavily used by ReadTheDocs and in the Python world.
- textile
- Another simple markup language, documented on textile-lang.com/).
- html
- Used only to view the template, not to work with it.
- Confluence
- A commercial wiki system (by Atlassian Inc.).
Learn more!
arc42 offers architecture training.
Two expert trainers at all times, highly practical and pragmatic, ideal preparation for iSAQB CPSA-Foundation certification.Next available dates (in German):
- November 14-16 2023, ENGLISH + online (Trainer: Wolfgang Reimesch)
- Dec 5-8 2023, Munich (fully booked, waiting list full)
- January 23-26 2024, Munich(fully booked, waiting list available)
- March 19-22 2024, Munich (fully booked, waiting list available)
- June 11-14 2024, Mannheim
- Sept 24-27 2024, Frankfurt
- Dec 3-6 2024, Munich
iSAQB Advanced Topics
IMPROVE: Learn to effectively evolve and maintain systems.
- Nov 28-30 2023, Hamburg, Carola Lilienthal with Gernot Starke
- June 17-19 2024, Mannheim, Gernot Starke and Peter Hruschka
Req4Arc: Getting your Requirements right.
What to do if your requirements need improvement.- April 16-18 2024, München, Peter Hruschka and Gernot Starke
- September 17-19 2024, Frankfurt, Peter Hruschka and Gernot Starke
ADOC: Architecture Documentation
How to efficiently and effectively create and maintain useful technical documentation.Contact us for inhouse training.