PowerDesigner is highly customizable. You can modify its interface to suit your work habits, , set default naming conventions, change the appearance of object symbols, add new properties to objects, and even create your own types of objects.
User Profiles
User profiles help you to standardize the look and feel of your models and to support standards across your organization.
Guiding Model Creation through Categories and Templates
You can create model templates with predefined targets, extensions, and first diagrams to help guide users through model creation. You can organize these templates in categories and share them with your team, supplementing or even replacing the default New Model dialog with these categories.
Display Preferences
You can set default display preferences for the symbols in your model. Using the Display Preferences dialog box you can:
General Options
You can control the look and behavior of the PowerDesigner interface through the general options. These options are saved in the registry of your local machine.
Naming Conventions
You can define naming conventions for your model objects in the Model Options dialog box. You can:
Windows and Toolbars
You can customize the windows and toolbars that are available in the PowerDesigner window.
Resource Files and Extended Model Definitions
The PowerDesigner modeling environment is powered by resource files, which define the objects available in each model along with the methods for generating and reverse-engineering them. You can view, copy, and edit these XML-format resource files in order to customize and extend the behavior of the environment.
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