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Modeling Preferences

You use modeling preferences to design and enhance the appearance of a model. Modeling preferences help you to improve the presentation of a model. For example, you can:

• Specify options for laying out relationship lines.
• Align entities, tables, and database views on a grid.
• Set the option for automatic resizing of entities, tables, and views.
• Lay out the entire diagram window.
• Set the maximum display length for definitions, comments, and view expressions.
• Define how the shadow effect will appear for entities, tables, and views within a model.
• Specify relationship phrase and foreign key phrase options.

Your preferences and settings are stored in a model template. Settings such as background color, foreign key color, and shadow offset are automatically applied to each new model based on the template.

More information:

Set Model Layout Preferences

Set Model Display Preferences