Copy Models across Projects

Users can copy and paste models not only between diagrams, but also across projects in VP-UML. This article is going to show you how to copy and paste model across projects within the same application.

Let’s take ComputerSales as the source project and FarmManagement as the target project.

The image below is the source project:

The source project

The source project

  1. Right click on the target model, for example, Order entity and select Copy > Copy within VP-UML EEfrom the pop-up menu to copy it.

    Right click to copy the source model

    Right click to copy the source model

  2. Next, select File > Open Project… from the main menu to select and open the target project.

    Open the target project

    Open the target project

  3. When the target project is opened, right click on the diagram’s background where you want Order entity to be pasted on and select Paste Model from the pop-up menu.

    Paste model

    Paste model

  4. As a result, Orderentity is shown.

    Order entity is pasted

    Order entity is pasted

How to try the sample

Download ComputerSales and FarmManagement and then unzip it to get the .vpp file.

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