Modelio User Documentation

About the Modeler End User Documentation

This user manual will tell you everything you need to know about Modelio Modeler, its features, its tools and its interface.

Modelio Modeler interface

• Main window

• Workspace view

• Model view

• Properties view

• Element view

• Notes and Constraints view

• Diagrams view

• Diagram Edition view

• Symbol view

• Outline view

• Links Editor view

• Audit view

• Script view

Managing your Modelio projects

• Migrating earlier Modelio projects

• Creating a project

• Configuring project information

• Configuring project work models

• Configuring project libraries

• Configuring project modules

• Configuring project audit

• Configuring project URLs

• Projects, work models and sub-projects

Building your models

• Creating elements

  • Creating elements in diagrams

    • Creating node-type elements

    • Creating link-type elements

    • Unmasking elements using the drag and drop

  • Creating elements in the model browser

  • Creating links in the links editor

• Modifying element properties

• Annotating elements

  • Adding stereotypes to elements

  • Adding notes/constraints to elements

  • Adding rich notes to elements

  • Adding tagged values to elements

• Editing elements using edition boxes

• Using shortcuts

Modelio diagrams

• Creating a diagram

• Opening a diagram

• Creating elements in a diagram

• Handling diagram elements

• Drawing links in a diagram

• Handling links

• Showing and masking elements in a diagram

• Free drawing

• Changing an element size in a diagram

• Setting graphic options in diagrams

• Cloning graphic options

• Using the grab function

• Using the zoom function

• Activating the grid

• Aligning elements

• Copying a diagram as an image

• Saving a diagram in a file

Import/Export

• Import from Modelio projects

• Import/export XMI

  • Glossary

  • Importing a model in XMI format

  • Exporting a model in XMI format

  • Importing a profile in XMI format

  • Exporting a profile in XMI format

  • Modelio XMI Import/Export options

  • Coverage of UML2

Modelio settings

• Modules catalog

• Macros catalog

• Preferences

• Diagrams styles

Local libraries

• Introducing model components

• Life-cycle of a model component

• Developing and packaging model components

• Deploying model components

Remote libraries

• Introducing remote libraries

• Creating and publishing a remote library

MDA services

• MDA modeling in Modelio Modeler

• Basic level – Creating a stereotype

• Advanced level – Working in the MDA model

Handy tools

• Modelio search tool

• Model audit

• Automatic diagrams

• Modeling assistant

• Scripts

• Command line options

• Modelio Maven plugin

• Model patterns

Appendix 1 Unmasking shortcuts in diagrams

• Unmasking shortcuts on actors

• Unmasking shortcuts on artifacts

• Unmasking shortcuts on attributes

• Unmasking shortcuts on parts

• Unmasking shortcuts on bindings

• Unmasking shortcuts on classes

• Unmasking shortcuts on collaborations

• Unmasking shortcuts on collaboration uses

• Unmasking shortcuts on components

• Unmasking shortcuts on information flows

• Unmasking shortcuts on datatypes

• Unmasking shortcuts on enumerations

• Unmasking shortcuts on instances

• Unmasking shortcuts on interfaces

• Unmasking shortcuts on nodes

• Unmasking shortcuts on operations

• Unmasking shortcuts on packages

• Unmasking shortcuts on ports

• Unmasking shortcuts on signals

Appendix 2 Creation shortcuts in diagrams

• Creation shortcuts in Activity diagrams

• Creation shortcuts in Class diagrams

• Creation shortcuts in Communication diagrams

• Creation shortcuts in Composite Structure diagrams

• Creation shortcuts in Deployment diagrams

• Creation shortcuts in Object diagrams

• Creation shortcuts in State diagrams

• Creation shortcuts in Use Case diagrams

Appendix 3 Diagrams specificities

• Use Case diagram System Boundaries