Using your own icons

Next Design comes with a variety of built-in icons, but you can use your own icons in addition to the built-in icons.

Procedure

To set a custom icon for an entity in the metamodel definition, follow the steps below.

Procedure

1. Select the target model or entity by one of the following steps:

• Select a model in the model editor.
• Select a model in the model navigator.
• Select an entity in the profile navigator.
• Select an entity in the class diagram of the metamodel definition.

2. Click the [View] > [Pane] > [Inspector] toggle button on the ribbon to display the inspector, and select the [Metamodel] tab on the top tab of the inspector.
3. On the [Metamodel] tab of the inspector, click the [Icon] selection button in the [Class] group to open the [Select icon] dialog.
4. Select the [Custom] tab at the top of the dialog and click the [+] icon at the bottom to open the [Icon registration] dialog.
5. Select the image file ¹ to use for the icon and press the [Open] button to add it to the list of available icons in the [Custom] tab.
6. Select the added icon and press the [OK] button, and the entity and model icons will change to the selected image icon.

Footnotes

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