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Diagram Facilities
Enterprise Architect provides a wide range of facilities for creating, editing and managing the diagrams that represent aspects of your models.
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Create a UML diagram, Extended diagram or MDG Technology diagram in your model, through the Project Browser.
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Set or change various properties of a diagram, such as the diagram name, through the diagram Properties dialog. Some properties influence the display of the diagram and some are logical attributes that appear in the documentation.
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Add new elements and connectors to a diagram using the Diagram Toolbox pages specific to the diagram type, or other Toolbox pages as you need.
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Add new elements and connectors to a diagram using the Quick Linker facilities.
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Drop existing elements from the Project Browser into the diagram.
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Drop elements copied from a diagram into another diagram.
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You can convert a tabbed diagram in the Diagram View into a floating diagram. In this case, you can move or copy elements between that diagram and another floating diagram or tabbed diagram. |
Move/Copy Elements To & From Floating Diagrams
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Identify which other elements are related to a selected element on the diagram and, if necessary, add one or more of those other elements to the diagram.
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Delete one or more diagrams from the model.
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Change a diagram from one type (such as Class) to another (such as Data Modeling).
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Select and move elements on the diagram using keyboard keys ('hotkeys').
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Copy an image of the diagram to a file on disk, in a range of graphic file formats.
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Copy an image of the diagram to the MS Windows clipboard.
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Create a duplicate copy of an existing diagram.
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Change the Z-order of selected elements on the diagram, to define which elements might lie over or underneath other elements.
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Flag a selected diagram as the Model Default diagram for your project, or your User Default diagram.
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Expand the contents of a Package element within a diagram.
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Manage the visibility of a range of element features on the diagram.
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Display a Diagram Properties Note on the diagram. A Diagram Properties Note is a simple fixed-text box containing the diagram name, author, version, creation date and modification date. You can move this text box to any point on the diagram.
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Create and edit Legend boxes, which provide a key to the colors and styles you have used to group elements and connectors on the diagram.
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Automatically resize the selected elements on the diagram to the default size for the element type, or as close to it as the element contents allow.
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Partition diagrams of any type, either vertically into columns or horizontally into rows, using Swimlanes.
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Partition diagrams into a grid of cells, using a Swimlanes Matrix.
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Lay out your diagram as a Kanban chart, partitioned according to the elements' project management properties.
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Change the appearance of one or more elements on the diagram to a graphical image, using the Image Manager.
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More precisely represent realized interfaces of a Class on your diagram.
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Show Realized Interfaces for a Class
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Control the display of labels around elements and connectors on the diagram.
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Pan across and down a large diagram, and zoom into or out of the diagram display.
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Move sections of the diagram independent of the rest of the diagram.
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Switch between the currently-open diagrams and views in the Diagram View.
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Set the scrollable/printable area of the diagram display area.
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Scale down the Printable image of the diagram to fit the size of paper it is being printed on.
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Lock the current diagram so that it cannot be updated.
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Undo and redo the immediately previous changes to the diagram.
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Present a set of diagrams in a Model Views slideshow.
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Present Diagrams in a Model Views Slideshow
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Automatically lay out a diagram in one of a range of formats.
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Notes
| · | In the Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering and Ultimate editions of Enterprise Architect, if security is enabled you must have Update Element permission to update or delete items on a diagram, and Manage Diagram permission to create, copy or delete diagrams |
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