Setting preferences for UML diagrams

You can set several default preferences for UML diagrams. For example, you can specify the appearance style, font, and colors that are displayed in UML diagrams when you create them. You might want to change the font and the colors to add visual interest or to convey conceptual groupings between elements in a new diagram.
You can specify the default visibility style for attributes and operations and the default operation signature format for new diagrams. You might also want to change the default settings for showing or hiding attributes and operations, operation signatures, or parent names of classifiers.

After you specify preferences, the settings apply to any new diagrams or elements that you create, but do not affect existing diagrams or elements.

To set preferences for UML diagrams:

  1. Click Window > Preferences.
  2. In the Preferences window, expand Modeling > Diagrams.
  3. On the Diagrams page, and the pages beneath it, specify the appropriate preferences and click OK.
Related tasks
Resizing elements in UML diagrams
Changing zoom levels in UML diagrams
Making elements the same size in UML diagrams
Changing the appearance of elements in UML diagrams
Aligning elements in UML diagrams
Opening UML diagrams
Selecting elements in UML diagrams
Specifying aliases for UML diagram elements
Showing and hiding aliases in UML diagrams
Specifying parent name styles in UML diagrams

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