What are templates for?

Using the templates included or those you create yourself will enable you to easily customize your models according to your requirements. You can specify that certain or all objects and/or connections in a model will be shown in the style you want simply by assigning templates. You can also use a template to specify that attributes are to be placed at certain positions on objects and connections.

Moreover, you can assign multiple templates to models . This means that you can assign a template to a model to change the size of objects, for example, and another that places the desired attributes. Based on this possibility, it can be very useful to create templates for specific model types, which can also be applied to other model types, for example.

Additive template assignment is possible for existing objects only. If you create new objects, only the template you assigned last will be applied to them.

You can also apply templates to individual items of a model and specify that only existing model items or only future model items are to be changed and that all changes that are made with templates can be reversed .