PowerDesigner provides multiple tools and techniques for manipulating object symbols in your model diagrams.
Manipulating Symbols
You can select symbols in a PowerDesigner diagram using standard gestures. You can edit properties of the selected symbol's object or it's sub-objects, or resize the symbol by clicking and dragging on its handles.
Manipulating Link Symbols
You can add and remove corners to and from link symbols, and change the objects that they connect.
Symbol Format Properties
You can change the size, line style, fill, shadow, font, alignment, shape and content of symbols in the Symbol Format dialog. Some items may not be available if your modeling methodology restricts the modification of symbol format or content.
Using Composite View to Display Sub-Objects within a Symbol
Many objects (packages, processes, classes, activities, states, EAM objects, etc.) have the capability to display sub-objects within their symbols through one or more composite view modes. Depending on the type of object, the sub-objects can be displayed either as a static sub-diagram within the symbol or as dynamically editable symbols that you can create and arrange directly from the parent diagram.
Browsing for Images
The Select Image dialog lets you manage the images that you use in your model diagrams, and to insert them into your models as object symbols, diagram backgrounds, etc.
Decorative Symbols
Lines, ellipses, rectangles, and other decorative symbol tools available in the Toolbox have no technical meaning, but can help with readability. You can use them to surround parts of a model to, for example, distinguish domains of activity.
Text Editor Tools
PowerDesigner provides an internal rich text format (rtf) editor, and supports the use of external text editors.