Visual Paradigm Installation and User's Guide

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Visual Paradigm Installation

Download, Install and Activate Visual Paradigm

1. Download the latest version of Visual Paradigm, and then install the Visual Paradigm by following the instructions of the installation wizard.
2. Start Visual Paradigm. When you see the following screen, select Subscription/Academic License.

   

   Select Subscription / Academic License

3. Expand Academic 'Training Partner Program License'.
4. Copy the activation code from DTU Learn (Under Content -> UML Modelling Tools -> Visual Paradigm Academic License).
5. Paste the activation code to the textbox called Activation Code. And then enter your name and email address.

   

   Activating Visual Paradigm

6. Click Activate. You are prompted for an activation code.
7. Go to your email inbox and Check your new email for the verification code.
8. Copy the verification code and paste it to Visual Paradigm.

   

   Pasting the verification code

9. Click OK to confirm. Visual Paradigm will be activated if the verification code is valid.

Visual Paradigm User's Guide

Create your first project in Visual Paradigm

To create a project, select Project -> New from the toolbar.

Create a new project

The New Project window appears.

An overview of New Project window

No.	Name	Description
1	Name	The name of the project.
2	Author	The person who creates the project.
3	Data type set	It lets you select the programming/scripting language for the project. The language you selected mainly affects class modelling. For example, the selectable visibilities and primitive types vary among languages.
4	Description	The project description.
5	Create Project Management Lookup	Check it to automatically fill the project management lookups such as iteration, version, etc with default lookup values.
6	Create Blank Project	Click to create the project.
7	Cancel	Click to cancel creating the project, and close the window.

Enter the name of the project and your name. And then you should choose UML as the Data type set and click Create Blank Project.