PowerDesigner is highly customizable. You can modify its interface to suit your work habits, set default naming conventions, change the appearance of object symbols, add new properties to objects, and even create your own types of objects.
User Profiles
User profiles help you to standardize the look and feel of your models and to support standards. Profiles allow you to group options and preferences together for sharing and reuse across your organization. Various profiles are provided with PowerDesigner, and you can create your own.
General Options
You can control the look and behavior of the PowerDesigner interface through the general options, the values for which are saved in the registry of your local machine.
Organizing Views
The PowerDesigner window contains the Browser, Toolbox, Canvas, Result List, and Output sub-windows or views, which you can move, group, split, hide, or auto-hide to suit your workflow.
Organizing Toolbars
The PowerDesigner window provides various toolbars, which you can show, hide, organize, and customize to suit your workflow.
Resource Files and Extensions
The PowerDesigner modeling environment is powered by resource files, which define the objects available in each model along with the methods for generating and reverse-engineering them. You can view, copy, and edit these XML-format resource files in order to customize and extend the behavior of the environment.
Shortcut Keys
PowerDesigner provides many shortcut keys to accelerate your workflow.