Chapter 5 Managing Models


Diagram properties

You can right-click any diagram background and select Diagram→Properties from the contextual menu to display the diagram properties:

Property Description
Name The name of the item which should be clear and meaningful, and should convey the item's purpose to non-technical users
Code The technical name of the item used for generating code or scripts, which may be abbreviated, and should not generally include spaces
Comment Additional information concerning the diagram
Parent Name of the parent model or package
Page scale Sets a default display for page scale. The page scale percentage lets you define a page size according to your modeling needs. If you have a lot of objects on several pages, you can reduce the page scale percentage in order for all the objects to fit on a single printable page
Default Diagram Diagram by default. This check box is automatically selected if the diagram is the first created diagram

 


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