Automatically populating existing diagrams

Use the Populate Diagram window to automatically add elements and their relations to an existing and already populated class, object model, use case, or structure diagram.

To open this window, do any of the following actions:

See the details for the Populate Diagram window in Automatically populating a diagram when you create it.

Note: Rational Rhapsody does not change the location of existing elements, it just adds the new elements.

Reverse engineering and automatically populating object model diagrams

During reverse engineering with the Populate Diagrams check box selected, Rational Rhapsody creates object model diagrams visualizing the elements added during reverse engineering. If you run reverse engineering later with the Merge existing package option, the product updates the visualized diagrams to show the new elements added and the dependencies between the diagram elements.

Restriction to populating existing diagrams automatically

The Populate feature does not support the adding of ports, though existing ports on the diagram will be preserved.


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