Why the modification on a newly created element will reflect to an existing model element?

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Visual Paradigm’s modeling tools are running in share model basis. This is meaning that a single model element can appear on different diagrams, or even on the same diagram multiple times (we call it the “views”). Changing the model element on one of the view will automatically reflected to other views. But sometimes you can may found that when you make changes on a new model element, changes also applied to other elements in your project, which is not what you looking for. There are 2 possibilities for this problem to be happen: Read more

How to Make Referenced File Accessible under Different Environments

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00-file-ref-accessible-thumbThe file reference feature provides a handy way for you to associate your design with whatever kind of external files, to aid in the explanation and studying of design. You can make a UML use case link to a set of requirement specification, make an entity in ERD link to a scanned copy of order form, make an activity in business process diagram link to a document of instruction, etc.

Knowing that different people may store the same files in different places, in order to make the referenced files accessible in any environment, one can define a user path to the folder where the files are stored. Users can replace the user path themselves to make the file reference accessible in their own environments. Read more

How to Locate a Model Element in Model Explorer from a View?

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Locate model element in model explorer
You may have a big project, with hundred, thousand, or even more model elements in it. When you are working primarily on a diagram and you want to know the model hierarchy of certain shape, a possible way would be to find out the model element in the Model Explorer and view the hierarchy there. But with so many model elements listed in Model Explorer, how do you effectively locate the model element you want? In this article, we will show you how.

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