Import Diagram into Teamwork Project

When you are working as a team member, the designs (diagrams) you draw in your project will be committed to server and will also be visible to other people in the team. Sometimes, you want to sketch out new ideas but without having them visible to other people as the sketches are just raw designs. One good way to perform sketching is to do it in a new project rather than the working one. At the end, import the needed part(s) back to the teamwork project and commit it to server to make it visible to others.

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How to Duplicate a UML Diagram

You can clone a source diagram into your target diagram, so that you can make modify the diagram without affecting the source diagram. This article will demonstrate how to clone a  diagram using VP-UML and modify the diagram afterward.

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Setting up Floating License Server as System Service on Mac OS X

You can setup floating license server as Mac OS X system service, the floating license server will result in automatically start up when you start Mac OS X. This article will show how to set up setup floating license server as Mac OS X system service.

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Reverse Database without Overwritting Entities

When you reverse database, you will find all existing entities are overwritten in the project. This article is going to teach you how to solve this problem.

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Installing and Removing Teamwork Server Service

You can install teamwork server as a Windows service, the teamwork server will result in automatically start up when you start Windows. On the other hand, you can remove this service as you don’t want it to be started when you start Windows. Normally this can be done by execute the install_service and remove_service script inside the scripts folder under the teamwork server installation directory. But if you experienced problem on running these 2 scripts, probably it is caused by some configuration issue on your machine. This article will show how to overcome this problem and to install and remove teamwork server service.

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Round-trip engineering with Eclipse Integration

You can update code and UML model with Eclipse Integration. In this article, you can learn how to update Eclipse in VP-UML and then how to update to UML model from Eclipse.

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Installing and Removing Floating License Service

You can install floating license server as a Windows service, the floating license server will result in automatically starting up when you start Windows. On the other hand, you can remove this service as you don’t want it to be started when you start Windows. This article will show how to install and then remove floating license service. Normally this can be done by execute the install_service and remove_service script inside the scripts folder under the floating license server installation directory. But if you experienced problem on running these 2 scripts, probably it is caused by some configuration issue on your machine. This article will show how to overcome this problem and to install and remove floating license server service.

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Visual Modeling with Mouse Gestures

Mouse gesture is one of the most useful visual modeling tools in all our VP products. It helps you to draw and manage your diagram with just a click of your mouse. Mouse gesture are mainly divided into three types: the drawing gesture, the command gesture and the connection gesture. This article will give a brief introduction of these three types of mouse gesture and another 11 basic gestures, and then show how to apply these three types of mouse gesture on the diagram.

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Updating Visual Paradigm Academic Partnership [Obsolete]

This article is out-dated. Please refer to Renew Product Subscription for Academic Partners for details about how to update Visual Paradigm Academic Partnership.

Visual Paradigm Academic Partner Program offers academic licenses for students to use Visual Paradigm products in their homework and assignments. Partnerships are valid for a year. Partners can extend the partnership, upgrade the partnership or subscribe more products in the Customer Service Center. In this page, you will see how to update the partnership.

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