Q04. I want to use my own icon instead of the built-in icon¶
Various icons are built into Next Design as standard, but you can use your own icons in addition to the built-in icons.
Operating procedure¶
To set your own icon for an entity in the metamodel definition:
Operating procedure
- Select the target model or entity using one of the following procedures.
- Select the model in the model editor.
- Select the model in the model navigator.
- Select an entity in the Profile Navigator.
- Select the entity in the class diagram of the metamodel definition.
- From the ribbon, click the Display> Pane> Inspector toggle button to display the Inspector and select the Metamodel tab at the top of the Inspector.
- In the Metamodel tab of the Inspector, click the Icon selection button from the Class group to display a list of icons.
- Click Other icons at the bottom of the icon list to open the Select icon dialog.
- Select the Custom tab at the top of the dialog and click the + icon at the bottom to open the Icon registration dialog.
- Select the image file 1 to use for the icon and click the [Open] button to add it as an available icon to the icon list on the [Custom] tab.
- Select the added icon and click the [OK] button to switch the entity and model icons to the icon of the selected image.
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Supported image file formats are PNG, SVG, GIF, BMP, JPEG. ↩