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Working In Diagrams
Enterprise Architect provides a wide range of facilities for creating, editing and managing the diagrams that represent aspects of your models.
Facilities
Facility |
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Create a UML diagram, Extended diagram or MDG Technology diagram in your model, through the Browser window. |
Add New Diagrams |
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. |
Set Diagram Properties |
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. |
Insert Diagram Properties Note |
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. |
Diagram Toolbox |
Add new elements and connectors to a diagram using the Quick Linker facilities. |
The Quick Linker |
Drop existing elements from the Browser window into the diagram. |
Drop Elements from Browser Window |
Drop elements copied from a diagram into another diagram. |
Copy Elements Between Diagrams |
Change the Z-order of selected elements on the diagram, to define which elements might lie over or underneath other elements. |
Z Order 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. |
Diagram Tabs Move/Copy Elements To & From Floating Diagrams |
Move sections of the diagram independent of the rest of the diagram. |
Move Elements In Diagram Sections |
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. |
Autosize Elements |
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. |
Locate Related Elements |
Generate virtual images of connector end elements, to simplify complex and extended relationships on a diagram. |
Virtual Connector Ends - Represent One Element Several Times on a Diagram |
Control the display of labels around elements and connectors on the diagram. |
Manage Object Labels |
More precisely represent realized interfaces of a Class on your diagram. |
Show Realized Interfaces of Class |
Expand the contents of a Package element within a diagram. |
Open Package From Diagram |
Manage the visibility of a range of element features on the diagram. |
Feature Visibility |
Undo and redo the immediately previous changes to the diagram. |
Undo Last Action |
Pan across and down a large diagram, and zoom into or out of the diagram display. |
Pan and Zoom a Diagram |
Select and move elements on the diagram using keyboard keys ('hotkeys'). |
Diagram Navigation Hotkeys |
Switch between the currently-open diagrams and views in the Diagram View. |
View Last and Next Diagram |
Change a diagram from one type (such as Class) to another (such as Data Modeling). |
Change Diagram Type |
Flag a selected diagram as the Model Default diagram for your project, or your User Default diagram. |
User and Model Default Diagrams |
Scale down the Printable image of the diagram to fit the size of paper it is being printed on. |
Scale Image to Page Size |
Set the scrollable/printable area of the diagram display area. |
Set Up Diagram Page |
Present a set of diagrams in a Model Views slideshow. |
Diagram Slide Show |
Lock the current diagram so that it cannot be updated. |
Lock Diagram |
Create a duplicate copy of an existing diagram. |
Copy (Duplicate) or Move Diagram |
Save an image of the diagram to a file, in a range of graphic file formats. |
Save Diagram Image to File |
Copy an image of the diagram to the MS Windows clipboard. |
Copy Image to Clipboard |
Delete one or more diagrams from the model. |
Delete Diagrams |
Notes
- In the Corporate, Unified 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