By default, when you draw ‘node’ symbols in System Architect, they are represented in their ‘conventional’ style – a rectangle, circle, or oblong depending on the symbol type. You can right-click any symbol and choose to:
•Display with Alternate Depiction
•Display with Alternate Depiction (without resizing)
•Display with Adornment
•Display with Adornment (without resizing)
•Display Conventionally
•Display Conventionally (without resizing)
Note By default, System Architect turns on the node shadows mode on any diagram you create. When displaying a symbol with Alternate Depiction, it might look distorted because it is being shadowed (see below). To turn off symbol node shadows:
1 Select Format > Diagram Format > Display Options to open the Display Options dialog.
2 In the Display Options dialog, toggle off Shadow > Node Symbols.
Above, a diagram with Security Constraint symbol shown as Alternate Depiction, with diagram Node Shadows turned off, and below – the same symbols with Node Shadows turned on for the diagram.
Below is the same diagram with the Security Constraint symbols set to display with Adornment.
