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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].

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