PlantUML Tips

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The PlantUML is an editor that you can use to generate UML diagrams with plain text.

Styles

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hide empty members

Class diagrams will hide theirs method or property rows that are empty.

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allowmixing

You can mix multiple kinds of diagrams into one canvas.

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skinparam nodesep 100
skinparam ranksep 50

Control padding sizes or line lengths among these diagrams.

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skinparam component {
  backgroundColor<<third>> Yellow
}

skinparam class {
  backgroundColor<<third>> Yellow
}

Control display styles of the class diagram.