Diagramming Toolset
Various handy visual modeling features, including voice document, sweeper, 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. The following movie shows how to set the format of shapes and connectors and how to use the format copier.
- Changing diagram elements styles
User's Guide
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. The following movie shows you how to manage and apply styles.
- Manage and apply styles
User's Guide
Stereotyped element appearance
Stereotypes are extensibility mechanism in Unified Modeling Language (UML). Stereotypes allow modeler to extend the vocabulary of UML. Visual Paradigm for UML 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. The following movie demonstrates how to define and apply formatting attributes with stereotype.
- Applying stereotype to model element
User's Guide