Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Icons

You can cut, copy, and paste icons between different diagram windows using commands on the Edit menu or the tools on the toolbar.

To cut, copy, and paste:

Clicking Edit > Cut, Copy, or Paste can manipulate selections containing icons and text in diagrams, and text information in specification fields. Clicking Edit > Cut performs a delete operation on some diagrams and a delete from model operation on others.

Clicking Copy will copy the selected icons to the platform Clipboard. Clicking Cut performs this same operation and then performs a delete operation. You can use these commands to move portions or all of a class diagram to other tools that support the platform Clipboard.

Clicking Paste in a class diagram adds icons from the Clipboard to the center of the current diagram as if you manually created them with the toolbox.

To use other menu commands:

Clicking Edit > Undo reverses the last Delete, Delete From Model, or Cut.

The Edit menu also provides commands that allow you to Select All, Find, and Rename icons.

The Browse menu provides commands to navigate among diagrams, and create, rename, and delete them.

When you right-click an icon, Rational Rose displays a shortcut menu. This menu allows you to modify properties (for icons that represent relationships) or select properties to be displayed within the icon.

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Deleting Model Elements

There are two ways to delete model elements in Rational Rose: you can perform a shallow delete or a deep delete. A shallow delete removes the element icon from a diagram. A deep delete removes model elements from a model completely.