StarUML documentation
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v7
  • Introduction
  • User Guide
    • Introduction
    • Basic Concepts
    • Managing Project
    • Managing Diagrams
    • Diagram Editor
    • Editing Elements
    • Formatting Elements
    • Annotation Elements
    • Managing Extensions
    • User Interface
    • CLI (Command Line Interface)
    • Validation Rules
    • Keyboard Shortcuts
    • TouchBar (MacBook)
    • Customization
  • Mermaid Support
  • Working with UML Diagrams
    • Class Diagram
    • Package Diagram
    • Composite Structure Diagram
    • Object Diagram
    • Component Diagram
    • Deployment Diagram
    • Use Case Diagram
    • Sequence Diagram
    • Communication Diagram
    • Timing Diagram
    • Interaction Overview Diagram
    • Statechart Diagram
    • Activity Diagram
    • Information Flow Diagram
    • Profile Diagram
  • Working with SysML Diagrams
    • Requirement Diagram
    • Block Definition Diagram
    • Internal Block Diagram
    • Parametric Diagram
  • Working with Additional Diagrams
    • Entity-Relationship Diagram
    • Flowchart Diagram
    • Data Flow Diagram
    • C4 Diagram
    • BPMN Diagram
    • Mindmap Diagram
    • Wireframe Diagram
    • AWS Architecture Diagram
    • GCP Architecture Diagram
  • Developing Extensions
    • Getting Started
    • Commands
    • Menus
    • Keymaps
    • Toolbox
    • Accessing Elements
    • Creating, Deleting and Modifying Elements
    • Working with Selections
    • Defining Preferences
    • Using Dialogs
    • Registering to Extension Registry
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  • Create C4 Diagram
  • C4 Model
  • Element (Person, Software System, Container, Component)
  • Relationship
  1. Working with Additional Diagrams

C4 Diagram

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Create C4 Diagram

To create a C4 Diagram:

  1. Select first an element where a new C4 Diagram to be contained as a child.

  2. Select Model | Add Diagram | C4 Diagram in Menu Bar or select Add Diagram | C4 Diagram in Context Menu.

C4 Model

To create a C4 Model (model element only) by Menu:

  1. Select an Element where a new C4 Model to be contained.

  2. Select Model | Add | C4 Model in Menu Bar or Add | C4 Model in Context Menu.

Element (Person, Software System, Container, Component)

To create a C4 element:

  1. Select Person, Software System, Container, Component or Element in Toolbox.

  2. Drag on the diagram as the size.

You can use QuickEdit for element by double-click or press Enter on a selected element.

  • Name : Edit name.

  • Add Note : Add a linked note.

You can edit description or technology properties in Property Editor.

An element is shown as a dashed boundary if it is shown in a diagram which is one of children of the element.

If you need elements other than Person, Software System, Container or Component, you can use (general) Element in Toolbox for Deployment Node, Infrastructure Node, etc.

Relationship

To create a relationship:

  1. Select Relationship in Toolbox.

  2. Drag from an element and drop on another element.

You can use QuickEdit by double-click or press Enter on a selected relationship.

  • Name : Edit description.

  • Add Note : Add a linked note.

You can edit description or technology properties in Property Editor.

C4 Diagram