Enabling UPIA viewpoints

You can select one of five predefined UPIA viewpoints to change the set of capabilities that you want to use. When you change the viewpoint, the available tools, including pop-up menu items and Palette items, are updated to provide the corresponding modeling tools. You can also enable custom viewpoints that you have defined.

Before you begin

Before you can enable custom viewpoints, you must first create them.

About this task

To enable UPIA viewpoints:

Procedure

  1. On the toolbar, click the drop-down arrow beside the viewpoint button (""), select Integrated Architecture Modeling, and then select a viewpoint from the list.
  2. Optional: To change the available viewpoints that you can use in the Modeling perspective, click the viewpoint button and, in the Preferences window, enable or disable the corresponding check boxes.

Results

The related capabilities are enabled in the user interface.

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