Main menu

The main menu, which is on the top of the window, allows you to select and perform various operations in Visual Paradigm for UML.

File menu

The File menu

The File menu enables you to:

• Create a project
• Create a diagram
• Open project
• Save project
• Save and manage project template
• Import project data from the following media: VP-UML Project, Rose Project, XMI, XML, Erwin Project, Telelogic Rhapsody Project, Telelogic System Architect, Rational Model, Rational DNX, MS Word (Use Case Model documentation exported from VP), Excel (Exported from VP), Visio, NetBeans
• Export project into the following formats: VP-UML Project, XMI, XML, MS Word (for Use Case Model), Excel
• Export images (JPG, PNG, SVG, EMF, PDF)
• Printing
• Set project properties
• Exit

Edit menu

The Edit menu

The Edit menu enables you to:

• Undo and Redo
• Cut
• Copy
• Duplicate
• Delete
• Change the end model element of connector
• Repeat an action
• Select everything in diagram
• Find a model element/diagram
• Jump to a diagram or an element
• Add or manage bookmarks
• Grouping
• Shapes alignment and distribution

View menu

The View menu

The View menu enables you to:

• Show/Hide a pane
• Show and manage grid
• Manage Layers
• Change Resource Centric behavior
• Save, open and manage perspective
• Change VP-UML to show in full screen
• Zoom diagram in and out
• Manage nickname
• Manage style
• Show spell check

Modeling menu

The Modeling menu

The Modeling menu enables you to:

• Launch Animacian
• Launch Simulacian
• Perform use case scheduling
• Configure stereotypes
• Configure requirements
• Customize use case ranks
• Open Visual Diff

Tools menu

The Tools menu

The Tools menu enables you to:

• Generate report
• Publish project
• Open various kind of element grid
• Configure programming language
• Reverse and Forward engineering with Instant Reverse and Instant Generator
• Perform round-trip engineering
• Reverse DDL
• Perform Object Relational Mapping (ORM)
• Perform State Machine Code Generation
• Perform IDE integration
• Perform Visio integration
• Launch Shape Editor
• Perform Teamwork operations
• Launch DB-VA SQL
• Launch License Key Manager
• Configure application options through the Options dialog boxes

Teamwork menu

The Teamwork menu

The Teamwork menu enables you to:

• Checkout project from server
• Commit project
• Update project
• Revert
• Switch to another trunk/branch

Window menu

The Window menu

The Window menu enables you to:

• Navigate between diagram
• Rearrange diagram windows
• Switch to another diagram
• Show the Start Page
• Close Diagrams

Help menu

The Help menu

The Help menu enables you to:

• Browse the help contents
• Check the instruction of Mouse Gesture
• Visit Visual Paradigm online support
• Repair project
• Customize the user interface
• Check the environment using the About dialog box