Open a View from Model

In order to avoid complex design, you may want to break down a model and present it in different diagrams base on different contexts. Model sharing is designed to serve this purpose. You may create multiple views in different diagrams from a model. The properties of the views will clearly preserved as they belong to the same model.

When the design grows bigger, you may want to review the diagram which contains a particular model to get better understanding for that model. Now, it is possible to open a view from a model, you can even open a view from source code in SDE.



Belows we will show you how to open a view from model as well as source code in SDE.

As mentioned before, a model can appear in multiple diagrams as multiple instances of view. To create a view from model, you can simply drag a model from Model Tree and drop to a diagram. Alternatively, you can make use of Copy-and-Paste. After copying a view with Ctrl-C (or selecting Edit > Copy from the main menu), you can create a view by pressing Ctrl-V (or selecting Edit > Paste View from the main menu).

1. Drag the view to be created to the diagram.
2. Release the mouse button and the view is created from the model.
   
   
   

1. Open the Model Tree.
   
   
   
2. Right click on a model you want to open its view.
   
   
   
3. Select Show View... from the popup menu.
   
   
   
4. In the Show View dialog box, select the view to go to.
   
   
   
5. Click Go to View.
   
   
   
6. The view selected is shown. At the same time, the model selected is indicated.
   
   
   

We can open other views of the model by clicking on its shape.

1. Right-click on the model shape.
2. Select Show Other Views... in the popup menu.
   
   
   

1. Right click on the code editor.
   
   
   
2. Select Select In Diagram from the popup menu.
   
   
   
3. In the Show View dialog box, select the view to go to.
   
   
   
4. Click Go to View.
   
   
   
5. The view selected is shown. At the same time, the model selected is indicated.
   
   
   

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