Overview and Introduction into Working with the Innovator X Generation

The program needs to be installed correctly and have a valid license so that Innovator can be used.

• Hardware and Software Prerequisites
• Installation
• Licensing

The interface of the new Innovator products differs from previous Innovator interfaces. Role-specific requirements can now be better dealt with and working in diagrams is set out in a more productive way.

• Changes to the Interface
• Wizards
• Model Views
• Plug-Ins

The Innovator X Generation interface uses the most up-to-date techniques in Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It is structured similarly to the current Microsoft Office interface.

• Interface Structure - What's Where?
• Ribbon
• Backstage View

Various roles can be defined so that the respective user can be assigned various authorizations; these roles are tailored to the user so that they can carry out their task in the team using appropriate functions and model views.

• Roles and Authorizations
• Access Control
• Adding Annotations

A model is an abstraction of the real world, i.e. a simple map of reality. A model is made up of elements and their relationships.

• Creating a New Package
• Structuring Models
• Navigating in the Model
• Creating Model Elements.

A diagram represents certain aspects of a model.Diagrams are made up of nodes and edges; their form and meaning are defined by the respective notation.

• Creating Diagrams
• Working in Diagrams
• Creating Elements in the Diagram
• Modifying Diagram Layout
• Printing Diagrams

Specification texts describe a certain aspect of a model element in the respective text definition, e.g. description or open points. Model elements can also have comments and annotations; these are designed to add more information to the element.

• Creating Specification Texts
• Commenting on Elements
• Adding Annotations to Elements