Nesting nodes inside other nodes

In UML modeling, you can nest nodes within nodes to represent the hardware and software components in a system that contains other components.

Before you begin

A diagram must be open in the diagram editor, and the diagram must contain at least two nodes. The Nested Nodes compartment of the container node must be visible.

About this task

To nest a node in another node, in the diagram editor, click one node and drag it into the Nested Node compartment of another node.

Results

As the following figure illustrates, a node named Node2 is displayed in the Nested Nodes Textual and Nested Nodes Graphical compartments of another node, named Node1.

Node1 has another node, named Node2, displayed in the Nested Node compartments.

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