Learn how to import an existing UML model in UML Designer to create new representations.
First make sure you are in the ‘Modeling’ perspective.
If the ’Modeling’perspective is not active, in the title bar select Window > Open Perspective > Other > Modeling
First, you need to create an UML Project.
In the title bar, select File > New > UML Project.
Enter the name of the new project and hit ‘Next’.
On the next page, select ‘Model’ as type for the UML model root element, and then ‘Finish’.
In the ‘Model Explorer’ view a new project was created. To create a new representations for existing UML model, you can :
The selected file should be an OMG compliant XMI file and should define as extension ‘.uml’.