Diagramming Toolset
Create and maintain business and engineering diagrams with Visual Paradigm cutting edge visual modeling toolset such as resource-centric interface, mouse gesture, sweeper, magnet, styles and layer.
Formatting shapes and connectors
You may format shapes and connectors in your drawing by changing their background color, foreground color, weight and font settings. Besides, there is a format copier function for replicating the format from one shape to others.
Manage and apply styles
Style is a set of formatting attributes for diagram elements. Applying style to diagram element enables you to quickly change the formatting of diagram element without setting attributes one by one. The manage style function allows you to change formatting attributes of existing style, and all changes will be applied to all diagram elements applied the same style.
Stereotyped element appearance
Stereotypes are extensibility mechanism in Unified Modeling Language (UML). Stereotypes allow modeler to extend the vocabulary of UML. Smart Development Environment for Visual Studio supports defining and applying stereotype for UML model elements. In addition, you may define formatting attributes (fill, line and font) in stereotype. When you apply stereotype(s) to UML model elements the formatting of the element will be updated to follow the definitions defined for the stereotype.