Entity Gradient Settings

These settings allow you to use color and size to represent the range of differences among entities. For example, if your model uses cities as entities, and one of the fields in your model's database is population, you could show the color gradient from yellow (smallest city) to green (largest city). Likewise, you could set the shape as a star, and the smallest city would have a small star and the largest city would have a large star. (You determine the size of the largest and smallest stars, and everything else falls in between.)

Gradient Value
  • Gradient property—Sets the field on which the gradient is based.
  • Override least/most significant values—Overrides the default lowest and highest values used for gradient.
  • Least significant value—Shows the value for the lowest gradient property.
  • Most significant value—Shows the value for the highest gradient property.
  • Low values are more significant—Specifies that low values are preferable to high values, such as with a scale of 1-5, when "1" is the highest rating.

Color Settings

  • Apply to entities color—Activates the color settings options.
  • Use these colors—Overrides the existing element's color.
  • Low value—Sets the color for the entities with the lowest value.
  • High value—Sets the color for the entities with the highest value.
  • Reduce color range—
  • Scale entity color by—Retains the entity's fill color but with varying hue, saturation or brightness (depending on each entity's gradient value).
  • Low %—Sets the low percentage for the scale. For example, if this number is "20" and you chose "Saturation" in the previous field and red as the fill color, entities with the lowest gradient value would have a 20% red color.
  • High %—Sets the high percentage for the scale. For example, if this number is "100" and you chose "Saturation" in the previous field and red as the fill color, entities with the highest gradient value would have a 100% red color.

Size Settings

  • Apply to entities size—Activates the size settings options.
  • Use these sizes—Allows you to select the sizes you want the gradient to use.
  • Low value—Sets the size for the entities with the lowest value.
  • High value—Sets the size for the entities with the highest value.
  • Scale entity size by—Changes the entities' sizes, varying overall, in height, or in width (depending on each entity's gradient value).
  • Low %—Sets the low percentage for the scale. For example, if this number is "20" and you chose "Width" in the previous field, entities with the lowest gradient value would have a width that is 20% of the highest number's width.
  • High %—Sets the high percentage for the scale. For example, if this number is "100" and you chose "Width" in the previous field, entities with the highest gradient value would have a width that is 100%.
  • Scale label size—Changes the size of the entity's label relative to the size of the entity.

Click OK to make shape and label settings changes to your model.