Working In Diagrams

Create a UML diagram, Extended diagram or MDG Technology diagram in your model, through the Project Browser.

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.

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.

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.

Add new elements and connectors to a diagram using the Quick Linker facilities.

Drop existing elements from the Project Browser into the diagram.

Drop elements copied from a diagram into another diagram.

Change the Z-order of selected elements on the diagram, to define which elements might lie over or underneath other elements.

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 sections of the diagram independent of the rest of the diagram.

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.

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.

Generate virtual images of connector end elements, to simplify complex and extended relationships on a diagram.

Control the display of labels around elements and connectors on the diagram.

More precisely represent realized interfaces of a Class on your diagram.

Expand the contents of a Package element within a diagram.

Manage the visibility of a range of element features on the diagram.

Undo and redo the immediately previous changes to the diagram.

Pan across and down a large diagram, and zoom into or out of the diagram display.

Select and move elements on the diagram using keyboard keys ('hotkeys').

Switch between the currently-open diagrams and views in the Diagram View.

Change a diagram from one type (such as Class) to another (such as Data Modeling).

Flag a selected diagram as the Model Default diagram for your project, or your User Default diagram.

Scale down the Printable image of the diagram to fit the size of paper it is being printed on.

Set the scrollable/printable area of the diagram display area.

Present a set of diagrams in a Model Views slideshow.

Lock the current diagram so that it cannot be updated.

Create a duplicate copy of an existing diagram.

Copy an image of the diagram to a file on disk, in a range of graphic file formats.

Copy an image of the diagram to the MS Windows clipboard.

Delete one or more diagrams from the model.