Cadifra UML Editor 1.3
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1. File Edit View Zoom Diagram Diagram Style Element Styles Default which will open the Diagram Style dialog Diagram Style Property Value 9 Font Assocation 3 La Typeface Arial J Class LA Size 11 Attached Text O3 Bold No _ Header B Multiplicity Role _ Free Text The left pane of the Diagram Style dialog shows a hierarchy of style nodes In the picture above the node Base is selected The properties of the selected node are displayed in the right pane In our example the node Base has the Font property with Typeface Arial Size and Bold values as shown above 16 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual By changing for example the Typeface value of the Base node you can change the Typeface of the whole diagram at once If you click the Apply button the change is applied but the dialog remains open Ok applies the changes and closes the dialog Note Style changes can be undone without limits as any other edit action Diagram Style o g Base Property value 3 Class Diagram E3 Font Assocation La Typeface Courier New w Class DY Size 11 Attached Text CY Bold No _ Header J Multiplicity Role _ Free Text Delete unused In the example above we changed the typeface of the Base node to Courier New vehicle Person If you select the sub node Header of sub node Class you can see that2. www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual 4 3 Moving and Shaping Connectors Orthogonal segments can be moved by dragging them with the mouse Position the mouse cursor over a segment make sure nothing 1s selected Person and then hold down the left mouse button while moving the mouse bese FE Additional segments are automatically added as needed e Person If you move the Bicycle class its directly attached segment follows the movement of the class Person 11 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual Select the terminals at all ends of a connector to move all segments of the connector together with the terminals In our example select the Bicycle class and the Person class hold down a shift key and left click the Person class to extend the selection and then move the Bicycle class eee a Person 4 Person You can detach connectors or reattach them to other terminals Detached ends are marked with a red diamond when their segment is selected This helps finding detached ends Ferson 12 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual Hint if two ends are too close to each other to catch one of them make sure the segment of the end you whish to move is selected This will increase its sensitivity to get caught by the mouse To move a join position the mouse cursor over it Person and then hold down th
3. Style has a Name and a Fill Color Element Styles that have not been applied to any element have an unused appended If you select one ore more elements before opening the dialog box you can assign an Element Style from the list to the selected elements Make sure the checkbox Assign to selected Elements is checked and then click Apply Cancel dismisses all changes made while the dialog was open 18 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual The first 30 Element Styles of a diagram appear at the end of the Styles menu from where they can be applied to a selection use the Element Styles dialog if you have more than 30 Element Styles Diagram1 cdd Cadifra Class Diagram File Edit View Zoom Diagram Import Diagram Style Element Styles ttn oie ett ee es Default Proposal 1 w Draft 19 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual 5 3 Diagrams and Diagram Styles Each diagram has exactly one Diagram Style Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 does not support multiple Diagram Styles in the same diagram Of course two diagrams can have differing Diagram Styles If you copy diagram parts from one diagram to another by copy paste or a drag and drop action the Diagram Styles are treated as follows If the Diagram Style in the destination diagram differs from Diagram Style in the source diagram the appearance of the pasted elements is automati cally adjusted to use
4. default style as you defined in your template diagram Each of your template diagrams may also be used as the source of a style import 21 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual 6 Attached Text Attached text appears at various places For example in class diagrams attached text may appear in the form of role names or association names Person vehicle owned In the picture above the role vehicle and the association name owned are examples for attached text If you select an attached text owned above a dashed red line is drawn to the anchor point of the attached text You can move the attached text relative to its anchor point by dragging the text with the mouse The anchor point can be moved like a connector end position the mouse cursor over it vehicle ma and drag it around The mouse cursor changes to the snapped mode when you are close enough to an element that supports attaching text vehicle vehicle _ owned 22 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual The text owned will now move together with the lower horizontal segment of the association vehicle If you move the anchor point of owned to the lower end of the association the meaning of the attached text changes from association name to role or multiplicity This may be reflected by a font change depending on the settings in the style bold to non bold in our example v
5. the Diagram Style of the same kinds of elements in the target diagram Note When copying UML elements the appearance of pasted elements is changed to conform to all existing nodes in the Diagram Style of the target diagram If transferred elements use nodes that do not exist in the Diagram Style of the target diagram the missing nodes are added to the Diagram Style of the target diagram If you have a diagram that contains your preferred Diagram Style you can import the Diagram Style of this preferred style diagram into any other diagram To do this open the destination diagram and select Import from menu Styles which will bring up a file open dialog to select the source file for the transfer Note When importing a Diagram Style the source Diagram Style will be merged into the target Diagram Style by replacing existing style nodes in the target diagram with corresponding nodes from the source diagram Nodes in the target Diagram Style that do not have corresponding nodes in the source Diagram Style remain unchanged 5 4 Used and Unused Style Nodes Let s assume you have drawn the following diagram vehicle owner reson time elapsed go wait which contains both class and state diagram parts Then further assume you deleted the class diagram parts such that the diagram now looks like this time elapsed go wait If you now open the style editor it looks like this 20 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manu
6. to Area ctrl shift left drag To zoom to an area hold down ctrl shift on the keyboard press down the left mouse button and move the mouse A dashed red rectangle follows your mouse movement The view will be zoomed to the marked area as soon as you release the mouse button 7 4 Scrolling with the Mouse Wheel wheel shift wheel If you have a mouse with a wheel turn the wheel to scroll up and down Hold down shift on the keyboard and turn the mouse wheel to scroll left and right Note If the window or a split window does not scroll or the wrong window scrolls click with the left mouse button somewhere inside the window you want to scroll 7 9 Scrolling in any Direction ctrl shift right drag Instead of using the horizontal and vertical scroll bars you can move the visible area of the diagram in any direction Hold down ctrl shift on the keyboard and hold down the right mouse button Now move the mouse the mouse cursor changes to a hand symbol and the diagram follows your mouse movement 24
7. Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 Fast and Lightweight UML Diagram Editor User s Manual www cadifra com info cadifra com Copyright 2012 Adrian amp Frank Buehlmann All rights reserved Cadifra is a trademark of Adrian amp Frank Buehlmann Microsoft Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP Windows Microsoft Word are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation UML and Unified Modeling Language are trademarks or registered trademarks of Object Management Group Inc Last modified 2012 04 12 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual 1 Introduction Caditra UML Editor is a graphical editor to draw Unified Modeling Language UML diagrams on Windows 7 Windows Vista or Windows XP As of version 1 3 Cadifra UML Editor supports the following kinds of UML diagrams Class Object Sequence State and Use Case With Caditra UML Editor you can create and edit Cadifra diagram files cdd The file format is xml With Cadifra UML Editor you cannot generate code nor does it build a database But you can draw good looking UML diagrams easy and very fast Diagrams can be embedded in text processing documents like Microsoft Word without loss of quality or ease of use The document you are reading right now was created with Microsoft Word and Cadifra UML Editor and then converted to pdf format Here is an example of a small class diagram created with Cadifra UML Editor and embedded into this document P
8. al Diagram Style Property Value Class Diagram unused E Font Association unused 3 Typeface Arial 3 Class unused gt Size ii F Attached Text unused Cy Bold No Header unused Multiplicity Role unused Free Text 3 State Diagram aj State E Header Transition _ Delete unused OK Cancel Now there are style nodes marked as unused This happens because style nodes are not deleted when you delete diagram elements To delete the unused style nodes mark Delete unused in the Diagram Style dialog and click the OO button Clicking Apply does not delete unused nodes Note There may be style nodes that are not marked as unused in the Style dialog even though no corresponding element exists in the diagram at all Free Text in the example above This is intentional The term unused is not used strictly here On the other hand if you start with a blank diagram style nodes are added as needed when you create new elements Note that those automatically added style nodes get default values which are hard wired into Cadifra UML Editor 5 5 Creating Template Diagrams Cadifra UML Editor does not directly support diagram templates However you may create one or more template diagrams by creating normal diagrams containing exemplary UML elements that you usually use and adjust their style as you like If you always copy a template diagram when starting a new diagram your newly created elements will use your
9. e lt Shape gt Rectangle www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual 2 Creating an Example Diagram After starting Cadifra UML Editor you have a window with an empty diagram Cadifra UML Editor starts in Class Diagram mode which is shown on the title bar of the window and in the toolbar F 4 gt rr raa Diagram1 cdd Cadifra Class Diagram T 4 aor Pete be Warr zorri Cy l Sct roll LIEL 3 z Byr m ae a d i e f id 1 r eh ae ae A SH dt 55 E Pii In Class Diagram mode only UML elements that belong to a UML class diagram can be created but you can mix UML elements from different UML diagram kinds in the same Cadifra UML Editor diagram as you like Just switch between the different UML diagram kinds by changing the diagram mode in menu Diagram or by using the drop down list in the toolbar Ei Diagram1 cdd Cadifra Class Diagram Eee Styles Window Help e Class Object Use Case Sequence State Note The diagram mode is saved together with the diagram data If you open an existing diagram the diagram mode is the one that was present when the diagram was saved Let s assume we keep with the Class Diagram mode for now To create a new class right click somewhere in the white space of the document window A context menu appears showing the possible UML elements that can be created here Ei Diagram1 cdd Cadifra Class Diagram File Edit Vi
10. e left mouse button while moving the mouse 13 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual If you press down the ctrl key toggle mode adjacent segments will become oblique Person the join is automatically eliminated Person If you happen to look at the context menu of an orthogonal connector segment you will find a check marked menu entry named Keep Orthogonal Hew Text New Dependency ut Copy Person If you remove the check mark the segment will forget its orthogonal state You will recognize the effect when you move the attached terminal i Person 14 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 4 4 Creating Connectors in Tree Form To create a connector in tree form Person simply attach a new connector to an existing one User s Manual Note Not every kind of connector supports tree form If the mouse cursor does not get bold when you try attaching a connector to another one then that connector kind may not support tree form 15 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual 5 Styles 5 1 Diagram Style The Diagram style defines the font characteristics for texts Every diagram has its Diagram Style Let s assume you have drawn the following diagram vehicle Person To edit the Diagram Style of this diagram choose Diagram Style from menu Styles Diagram1 cdd Cadifra Class Diagram geg Window Help Import
11. ehicle a a Attached text can be detached as you can see if you take a look at the context menu vehicle You can also create detached or Free Text by choosing New Free Text from the default context menu New Note ee You can attach a detached text or Free Text to any element that supports it by selecting Attach from its context menu and clicking at the desired place of the anchor point Note Cadifra UML Editor infers the meaning of an attached text from where it is attached to The program therefore knows if an attached text is for example an association name However Cadifra UML Editor will not keep you from attaching multiple conflicting names to the same element 23 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual 7 Zoom and Scrolling 7 1 Zoom with the Mouse Wheel ctr wheel If you have a mouse with a wheel you can use the wheel to zoom in and out Hold down the ctrl key on the keyboard and turn the mouse wheel forward to zoom in Turn the wheel backward to zoom out Note The point on the diagram at the mouse cursor keeps its position on the screen during mouse wheel zooming 7 2 Zoom with Mouse Clicks ctrl shift left right click Hold down ctrl shift on the keyboard and click with the left mouse button to zoom in Click the right mouse button to zoom out Note The point on the diagram at the mouse cursor keeps its position on the screen on mouse click Zooming 7 3 Zoom
12. ew Zoom Diagram Styles Window Help New Package New Note New Free Text www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual Select New Class from the menu The class is placed nearby to the point where the context menu was opened Now you should have your first UML element in Cadifra UML Editor Note Bold text marks the default command Every context menu saves the chosen command as the new default As an easy shortcut you can call the default command with ctrl right click Diagram1 cdd Cadifra Class Diagram File Edit View Zoom Diagram Styles Window Help Note the star appearing after the name of the diagram Diagram1 cdd in the title bar The star appears whenever the diagram needs to be saved Ei Diagram1 cdd Cadifra Class Diagram If you undo the creation of the class ctrl z or Edit gt Undo the star disappears If you redo ctrl y it reappears again By the way you can always undo redo any number of steps There is no limit in the number of steps that can be undone Undo redo is also available in the toolbar Note The undo stack is not saved with the diagram The undo stack is always discarded when you close a diagram So we still have our new class The newly created or undone and redone class is selected If a single element with a text 1s selected you can start typing its name on the keyboard The name is replaced by the text you enter No need to double click No ugly dialog b
13. ion Composition With Qualifier Select New Role from the context menu E lt role gt a Bicycle Ferson and enter the text vehicle _ H You can move the vehicle text around by dragging it While doing this a dashed red line is drawn to the end of the association to show where it belongs to www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual This was a first little tour on using Cadifra UML Editor We recommend experimenting yourself with Cadifra UML Editor to explore other features or read on in the following chapters www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual 3 Resizing 3 1 Single Element Resizing UML elements can be resized by dragging one of their resize controls they appear when the element it is selected Position the mouse cursor over one of the controls and press down the left mouse button while moving the mouse a ela a Bicycle Person Note You can always escape from the resizing mode by hitting the ESC key Release the mouse button when the red dashed line has the requested size of the element 3 2 Multi Element Resizing Cadifra UML Editor supports multi element resizing Select the elements that you wish to resize and do the resize on one of the elements All other selected elements of the same type follow that resizing Bicycle www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual 4 Connectors 4 1 Creating Connectors with Multiple Segmen
14. or over the Person class until the mouse cursor gets bold Now click the left mouse button to fix the end of the association This ends the connector drawing mode and you should have completed the new association www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual 4 2 Creating Connectors with Oblique Segments Let s assume we wanted to draw the following class diagram with an association consisting of two segments one of them being oblique Bicycle Person To draw this kind of association use the instructions from the previous chapter up until you are in the following state New Association starting from class Bicycle and two mouse clicks BICVEIE peeceetean r q SSE EEE Ferson L I When you are in the situation shown above hold down the ctrl key on the keyboard The last two orthogonal segments will then be replaced by an oblique segment that follows your mouse movements Bicycle Person Note ctrl toggles between orthogonal and oblique connector drawing mode While still holding down the ctrl key move the mouse cursor over the person class BIGYEIE ensrensnciessenes Ca tale Person L l and then click the left mouse button to complete the association The default mode for drawing associations in class diagrams is orthogonal oblique with ctrl key down For note connectors and use case associations the default is oblique orthogonal with ctrl key down 10
15. ox to fight with So let s say we enter Bicycle as the new name of the class Note the dashed red box inside the class box and the flashing text insertion cursor You can leave the text editing mode of the class name by left clicking somewhere in the white space or hitting the ESC key Note You can also switch to text edit mode by double clicking on a text Now let s drag the newly created class around Just hold down the left mouse button over the Bicycle class and move the mouse Bicycle 4 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual A dashed red rectangle follows the mouse movement Note the faint lines they appear when the moving box is in exact alignment with another element Note You can always escape from the moving mode by hitting the ESC key Now while still dragging moving mouse while holding left mouse button down press and hold the ctrl key on the keyboard The mouse cursor gets a small plus sign this is copy move Bicycle ie 4 If you release the left mouse button during copy moving a copy is created and the drag operation is terminated Rename the second Bicycle to Person just type on the keyboard So now we have a Bicycle and a Person class Bicycle Person Now let s create an association Position the mouse cursor over the Bicycle class and hold down the right mouse button to display the context menu of the Bicycle class element Bicycle Person i Hew As
16. sociation l New Dependency New Generalization New Compartment New Text New Association Class Connector Cut Copy Abstract Template Select New Association from the context menu to enter the association drawing mode rT 1 BICYCIE s s5 Person In association drawing mode the mouse cursor changes to the connector sign as shown above Note You can always escape from the association drawing mode by hitting the ESC key www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual Move the mouse and see how a dashed red line follows your mouse movement from the box of the Bicycle class Now position the mouse cursor over the Person class Note how the mouse curser gets bold when it s over the Person class This is a hint that the association can snap to the Person class rja Bieyele c Person While the mouse cursor looks bold click the left mouse button to finish the creation of the association Now you should have a new association as shown below Bicycle Ferson connected Note that the newly created association is selected with small green squares at its ends Now let s add a role to the Bicycle side of the association To do this position the mouse cursor over the Bicycle end of the association oa L and click the right mouse button to display the context menu of the association end Person Hew Multiplicity 1 New Multiplicity Traversed amp Direct Aggregat
17. the typeface and size values are inherited This means that they inherit their real values from the ancestor node Diagram Style Property Value Z Association LA Typeface inherits gt e Class La Size lt inherits gt LA Bold Yes Jj Multiplicity Role J Free Text Delete unused OK Apply In sub nodes you can override values from ancestor nodes Per default Header of Class for example overrides Bold to yes Note Cadifra UML Editor allows you to change the fonts of all instances of each kind of UML element of a diagram at once Setting font overrides for a single instance of an element is not possible 17 www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual 5 2 Element Styles Element Styles can be applied to selected diagram elements As of version 1 3 Element Styles contain color information Fill Color To edit the Element Styles of a diagram choose Element Styles from menu Styles S Diagram1 cdd Cadifra State Diagram File Edit View Zoom Window Help Import ae Diagram Style Diagram Element Styles Default which will open the Element Styles dialog Below you can see an example of a diagram with two Element Styles Proposal 1 and Draft Element Styles Fill Color Red 255 gt geen Assign to selected Elements There is a Default Element Style with transparent fill color New Element Styles can be added with New Each Element
18. ts Let s assume we wanted to draw the following class diagram with an association consisting of three segments Bicycle Person We will use the term join to denote the point where two segment ends of a connector coincide The above association has two joins The start situation 1s this Bicycle Person To create the association select New Association from the context menu of the bicycle class You are then in connector drawing mode where a dashed red line follows the position of the mouse cursor Note You can always escape from the connector drawing mode by hitting the ESC key Move the mouse to the right and click with the left mouse button at the position of the upper join and move the mouse a bit downwards Bicycle rin L J Person The position of the start of the association at the Bicycle class is now fixed and you have one join The horizontal position of the newly created join is not yet fixed See how the vertical segment of the dashed red line and the new join follow your horizontal mouse movements www cadifra com Cadifra UML Editor 1 3 User s Manual To fix the horizontal position of the new upper join click again with the left mouse button and move the mouse a bit to the right sn Person The vertical position of the new lower join is not yet fixed the lower horizontal segment still follows your vertical mouse movements Finally position the mouse curs
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