Layout Properties Sheet
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The Layout properties sheet lets you specify how you want your UML system diagrams to be laid out. For most types of diagrams, the Layout property sheet offers a selection of options to help you fine-tune each layout style for the specific needs of your diagrams and your UML Project.
Tabs
- Disconnected Tab. Lets you specify connectedness between diagram elements and between nodes, and the aspect ratio.
- Hierarchical Tab. Lets you specify orientation, level alignment, layout quality, spacing, routing, and other parameters for diagrams that use the hierarchical layout.
- Orthogonal Tab. Lets you specify node and edge spacing, layout quality, and aspect ratio for diagrams that use the orthogonal, or squared-line, layout.
- Symmetric Tab. Lets you specify node spacing options and layout quality for diagrams that use the symmetric layout.
- Routing Tab. Lets you specify horizontal and vertical spacing, and whether to fix node sizes and positions.
- General Tab. Not Supported.
Command Buttons
- OK. Accepts your specifications for all applicable diagrams, and then closes the dialog box.
- Cancel. Closes the Layout property sheet without applying any of your settings.
- Apply. Applies your specifications to all applicable diagrams without closing the dialog box.
- Layout. Applies your specifications to all applicable diagrams without closing the dialog box, and immediately displays any specification changes in the active Diagram editor.
- Reset. Resets all values in the dialog box to the values that were displayed when you opened the dialog box.
- Defaults. Resets all values in the dialog box to the values that were originally specified when you installed the IDE.
- See Also
- Specifying Layout Properties
- Modifying Diagram Layouts
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