Changing the default visibility style for attributes and operations

You can change the default visibility style for attributes and operations that appears when you create new class diagrams or add classifiers to existing ones.

Note: This setting affects only new classifiers that you add to a class diagram and do not affect existing classifiers in a diagram.
To change the default visibility style for attributes and operations:
  1. Click Window > Preferences.
  2. In the Preferences window, expand Modeling, expand Appearance, and click Shapes.
  3. On the Shapes page, from the Visibility style list, complete one of the following steps:
    • To display visibility styles with decoration icons, select Decoration.
    • To displays visibility styles with text symbols, select Text.
    • To suppress the display of visibility styles, select None.
  4. Click OK.
Related concepts
Visibility attributes in UML diagrams
Attributes
Operations
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Setting the default for showing parent names
Setting the default for showing operation signatures
Changing the default for showing attribute and operation compartments
Defining default Java collection types
Customizing the default Java types to be shown or filtered out in diagrams
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