Setting a Perspective

Enterprise Architect is a tool packed with features for a wide range of disciplines, methods, languages and frameworks. Perspectives provide a way for a user to select a facet of the tool that allows them to focus on a particular subset of the tools features and facilities.  The Systems Engineering group of Perspectives provides a natural starting point for Systems Engineers, but at any point if you decide to use other facilities in the tool you can simply change Perspectives and the tool will change to provide a focus on the selected area.

Selecting one of the Systems Engineering Perspectives will change the tools to focus on the selected aspect of Systems Engineering. For example, choosing the SysML Perspective will display a series of model patterns giving a user a jump start by being able to load a pattern for a standard model fragment or diagram. The 'New Diagram' dialog will also just display SysML diagram types.

There is also the convenient facility for a user to create any number of their own Perspectives, adding sets of technologies to each Perspective. This allows a modeler whose primary concern is SysML diagrams to add other facilities such as strategic models, Kanban diagrams and dozens of other useful diagramming and modeling mechanisms. For more information see the Model Perspectives topic.