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Displaying images in diagrams

Next Design comes with a variety of built-in shapes, but you can display your own images instead of the built-in shapes.

Procedure

To set a custom image for a shape in the diagram view definition, follow the steps below.

Set a custom image for a shape

Procedure

Display the target diagram and select the shape you want to change.
From the ribbon, select [Home] > [Style] > [Diagram] and click [Set Image from File...].
Select the image ¹ you want to use in the [Select Image] dialog and press the [Open] button. The shape on the diagram will switch to the selected image.

tip

You can also set an image from the clipboard to a shape.
From the ribbon, select [Home] > [Style] > [Diagram] and click [Set Image from Clipboard].
The image you set will maintain the width of the shape and automatically adjust the height. However, if there are child shapes, it will not be automatically adjusted.

note

To be able to set an image to a shape, the [Allow image paste] checkbox in the setting item of the corresponding shape in the profile view definition must be ON.
For details, see User's Manual > Reference > Profile Settings and Modeling Changes.

Supported image file formats are PNG, GIF, BMP, and JPEG. ↩

Procedure