Diagram Preferences
The Diagram Preferences dialog lets you modify some options for the
Diagram Panel.
To access the Diagram Preference dialog select Windows > Preferences... from the
menu. Then find Diagram under TopBraid Composer.
Alternatively, you can use the corresponding Edit Preferences... button in the Diagram View.
Currently, the options you can select are limited to:
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Show root class defines whether rdfs:Resource
and owl:Thing should be shown in the diagram. If you are developing
OWL ontologies, all classes you define are subclasses of owl:Thing. When
selected owl:Thing will be displayed on each diagram. Every class shown in the
diagram will have a subclass relationship path connecting it to
owl:Thing. For classes that have only a handful of
relationships with the other classes, this may work well. However, in many cases
presence of owl:Thing makes diagrams overly complicated.
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Show associations defines whether the thin
lines derived from range definitions shall be shown in the diagram.
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Automatically expand superclass relationships specifies whether
the system should pre-populate the diagram with superclass relationships
when the diagram is opened first.
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Automatically expand relationships via restrictions specifies
whether the system should pre-populate the diagram with those
relationships derived from OWL restrictions when the diagram is
opened first.
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Show attributes specifies whether attributes
shall be displayed inside of the boxes.
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Show disjointness defines whether
owl:disjointWith relationships shall be displayed (with red lines).
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Use vertical and horizontal edges only will make
sure that all edges only have 90 degree angles. This sometimes
makes diagrams look nicer, but may also lead to edges that overlap
existing nodes.
You can furthermore adjust the horizontal and vertical scaling to define
how much space the diagram shall cover
If you are using the diagram for editing, you can also specify whether
new Associations shall result in rdfs:domain/rdfs:range
or
owl:allValuesFrom
restrictions.