Enterprise applications development often requires to deal with complex diagrams which could sometime grow too large for manipulations. For example, We would like to highlight only a group of classes in a class diagram for presentation or printing temporarily. In this new release, the Show and Hide Diagram Element feature allows you to show only those elements on the diagram pane which you are interested for performing some operations more conveniently in a temporary state and later you can make them visible again for the normal operations.

Use Case Scenarios

1. From time to time user often use Callout shapes to annotate additional information for a model element

2. Export only a portion of a diagram for presentation purpose

Hide Elements and Show Again

1. Business Process Diagrams are often annotated with Callout shapes to supplement for additional explanations.
   
   

2. Right click on the diagram, select Show/Hide > Hide > Callout to hide all Callout shapes.
   
   
   
   Note: We had illustrated how to hide a specific type of model elements in the example above, On other user case scenarios, you may wish to hide a specific shape (or a group of selected shapes) by right clicking on the shape(s) and and select “Hide”.

3. All callout shapes are hidden now.
   
   

4. Right click on the diagram and select Export > Export as Image in popup menu.
   
   

5. Input the output destination, then select PDF (diagram per file), Landscape orientation and click the Export button to export to PDF.
   
   

6. A PDF is exported without showing Callout shapes.

   

7. Right click on the diagram and select Show/Hide > Show > Callout to show all Callout shapes.
   
   

8. Now all Callout shapes are shown in the diagram again.
   
   

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