Version 5.0

ConceptDraw V Help System

Contents

Welcome to ConceptDraw V

• What's New in this Version
• ConceptDraw for Business and Technical Drawing
• Registration
• Subscribing to Newsletter
• Downloading Updates
• Technical Support

Starting Your Work in ConceptDraw

• Working Environment: Windows, Toolbars and Libraries
• Creating a Diagram
• What You Can Use ConceptDraw For

Reference Manual

Document

• Creating a New Document
• Creating a Document Using a Template
• Importing Files
• Saving a Document
• Exporting a Document
  • To PDF - for cross-platform viewing and printing
  • To HTML - for publishing on the Web
  • To PowerPoint - for creating presentations
  • To graphic formats
• Printing a Document
• Working with Pages
  • Adding a Page
  • Background Pages
  • Going to another Page
  • Reordering Pages
  • Naming a Page
  • Deleting a Page
  • Hyperlinking to Pages
• Layers
• Working with a Document
  • Scrolling
  • Zooming
  • Rulers and Grid
  • Guide Lines and Gluing
• Document Settings
  • Scale
  • Units of Measure
  • Color Palette
• Document Templates

Shapes

• About Shapes in ConceptDraw
• Drawing a Shape with Drawing Tools
• Inserting a Shape from a Library
• Operations on Shapes
  • Selecting
  • Copying and Pasting
  • Duplicating
  • Moving
  • Rotating and Flipping
  • Resizing
  • Reshaping
  • Changing the Front-to-Back Order
  • Distributing Shapes
  • Aligning Shapes
  • The Join, Combine and Separate Operations
  • Grouping and Ungrouping
  • Substituting a Shape with Another Shape
  • Copying Shape's Visual Attributes
  • Deleting
  • Undo and Redo
• Connecting Shapes
  • Connectors
  • Connecting to the Entire Shape
  • Connecting to a Shape's Connection Point
  • Connection Points
  • Smart Connector
  • Direct Connector
  • Connecting Multiple Shapes
  • Auto-Connection Modes
• Shape Properties
  • Line Properties
  • Fill Color and Pattern
  • Shadow
  • Behavior
  • Information
  • Double-Click Action
  • Hyperlinks
• Pictures
  • Pictures and Graphic Formats
  • Raster Pictures
  • Vector Pictures
  • Converting Vector Pictures
• Defining and Using Named Styles
• Custom Properties
  

Text

• Adding Text to a Shape
• Editing Shape's Text
• Searching and Replacing Text
• Formatting Text
• Repositioning Text
• Adjusting a Shape's Size to Fit Its Text
• The Text Auto-Expand Mode

Libraries

• Using Libraries and Library Shapes
• Creating and Editing Libraries
  • Adding Shapes to a Library
  • Replacing a Library Shape
  • Shape's Icon

Internet

• Sending a Document by E-mail
• Searching the Internet
• Using Hyperlinks
• Exporting a Document to HTML Files
• Working with Documents on a Remote FTP-Server

Shape Parameter Table

• Displaying the Shape Parameter Table
• The Table's Sections
• Formulas
• Adding Control Handles to a Shape
• Adding User-Defined Context Menu to a Shape
• Using Formulas to Control Shapes
• Variables Describing a Document
• Function Reference

OLE Objects

• Using OLE objects in ConceptDraw Documents
• Using ConceptDraw Shapes in other OLE-compatible Applications

Customizing the Working Environment

• Application Preferences
• Customizing the Toolbars
• Customizing the Floating Dialogs
• Working with Windows
• Workspace Files

ConceptDraw Basic

• Conceptual Information
  • Application, Document and Shape Level Scripts
  • How Scripts Can Be Used to Create Wizards
• Working with the Basic Editor in ConceptDraw V

Dialogs

• Modal Dialogs
  • Template Gallery
  • Document Properties
  • Preferences
  • Shape Properties
  • Text Properties
  • Add Page/Page Properties
  • Delete Page
  • Reorder Pages
  • Go to Page
  • Hyperlink
  • Color
  • Color Palette
  • Define Custom Properties
  • Custom Properties
  • Define Styles
  • Find/Replace
  • Flow Data Export Settings
  • Export Outline Settings
  • Import Outline Settings
  • Grid & Rulers
  • HTML Properties
  • Image Properties
  • Insert Section
  • View Sections
  • Library Item Properties
  • Library Properties
  • Snap & Glue
  • Open from FTP Server
  • Save to FTP Server
  • Add Bookmark
  • Open
  • Save
  • Paste Special
  • Page Setup
  • Print
  • Edit User
  • Login
  • Flash Export Properties
  • ConceptDraw License Entry
  • XML Parser Messages
  • HTML Export Results
  • Line Number
  • Edit Bookmarks
  • Customize
• Floating Dialogs
  • Line
  • Fill & Shadow
  • Protection
  • Behavior
  • Double-Click
  • Information
  • Layers
  • Page Navigator
  • Geometry

Toolbars

• Main
• Drawing Tools
• Zoom
• Views
• Formatting
• Connect Shapes
• Text
• Arrange
• Action
• Layers
• Libraries
• Pages
• Routing
• Snap & Glue
• CD Basic
• Web

Menus

• Document View Menus
• Basic Editor View Menus
• Document View Context Menu
• Library Context Menu
• Library Item Context Menu
• Basic Editor Context Menu
• Basic Output View Context Menu
• Table View Context Menu
• Text Edit Context Menu

Windows

• Document View
• Edit Group
• Shape Table
• Library
• Basic Script Editor
• Basic Output
• Print Preview (Windows only)
  

Keyboard Shortcuts