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PowerDesigner® is a graphical
enterprise modeling solution supporting standard methodologies and notations and
providing automated code reverse engineering and generation through customizable
templates. PowerDesigner provides powerful reporting capabilities, is highly
extensible, and offers a scalable enterprise repository solution with strong
security and versioning capabilities to aid multi-user development.
Creating Models and Projects
Models are the basic working unit in PowerDesigner, and contain one or more diagrams. Projects contain one or more models and can also include a framework diagram or matrix to guide how your project should be modeled:
To create a new model, select .
To create a new model by importing an Excel, Word, ERwin, XMI, Rational Rose, or SIMUL8 file, select .
To create a new model by reverse-engineering a database, process or object language files, or an XML schema, select .
- To create a new project, select .
Setting Up Your Modeling Environment
- To connect to a repository, select .
- To set model options including naming conventions for your objects, select .
- To control the look of and information displayed on your diagram symbols, select .
- To set general options for dialog boxes, editors, variables, etc, select .
- To customize the commands in your menus and tools in your toolbars, select .
The PowerDesigner Interface
These core features are available in all or many models:
- To create an object in a diagram, select the appropriate tool in the Toolbox and then click in the diagram.
- To create an object in the Browser, right-click the model or a package and select .
- To open an object property sheet, double-click its Browser entry or diagram symbol.
- To add a diagram to your model, right-click the model node in the Browser and select .
- To find objects, select (or press Ctrl+F).
- To find the Browser entry for an object symbol, right-click the symbol and select Find in Browser.
- To find the diagram symbol for an object in the Browser, right-click the Browser item and select Find in Diagram.
- To check the validity of your model, select (or press F4).
- To add a dependency matrix to your model, right-click the model node in the Browser and select .
- To create a report on your model, select (or press Ctrl+F12).
- To enable the use of the glossary in your model, select , choose the Naming Convention category, and select Use glossary for autcompletion and compliance checking
.
Linking and Syncing
These features help you to create and review connections in and between your models:
- To create a connection from one object to any other object, open its property sheet and click the Traceability Links tab.
- To generate one model from another (where available), select .
- To generate objects from one model to another, select .
- To create a shortcut to an object in another model or package, right-click on the target object in the Browser (or its symbol in a diagram) and drag and drop it into the diagram where you want to create the shortcut (or onto a model or package in the Browser). Release the right mouse button, and select Create Shortcut(s) Here.
- To create a synchronized replica of an object in another model or package, right-click on the target object in the Browser (or its symbol in a diagram) and drag and drop it into the diagram where you want to create the replica (or onto a model or package in the Browser). Release the right mouse button, and select Replicate Here.
- To create or review mappings between two models (where available), select
- To compare two models, select (or press Ctrl+F6).
- To merge two models, select (or press Shift+F6).
- To analyze the impact of a change to an object, select (or press Ctrl+F11).
Documentation
For detailed documentation, see Core Features Guide.