Begin a new drawing from scratch. The current modifications can be saved or discarded.
Open an existing document from disk. See 'Save As' for a description of the available file formats.
Save the current document using the current file name and file format. The current file is always displayed in the title bar.
Save the current drawing to a file. This lets you specify the file name and file format to be used. yEd supports different file formats. Note that only some of them can be used for persistence purposes since not all of them represent a lossless format.
Opens a dialog, which enables the user to print either the whole graph or the visible contents of the current view only. The size of the output can be controlled by either specifying a scaling factor to be applied before printing the graph or by specifying on how many page rows and columns the output should fit. When choosing the latter option the scaling factor will be adjusted automatically so that the graph nicely fits on the poster.
Opens a dialog, which lets you specify the behavior and display of the editor. See The Preferences Dialog for more details.
Opens a dialog, which lets you specify the default visual appearance of newly created nodes. See The Default Dialog for more details.
Opens a dialog, which lets you specify the default visual appearance of newly created group nodes. See The Default Dialog for more details.
Opens a dialog, which lets you specify the default visual appearance of newly created edges. See The Default Dialog for more details.
Loads previously saved editor settings.
Saves the current editor settings to a file. Among the saved settings are the current settings in most of the option dialogs, default node and edge appearance and the application geometry.
Applies default settings to the editor.
Displays a list of graphs that recently have been loaded or saved.
Saves the current editor settings and quits yEd. Upon a restart the saved settings will be initially applied to the application. Note that settings will be stored in the user's home directory within a folder named '.yed'.
Undoes the last modification to the document.
Redoes the last undo step.
Copies the current node selection and all induced edges to the clipboard and removes it from the document.
Copies the current node selection and all induced edges to the clipboard.
Pastes the contents of the clipboard
Removes the current selection from the document
Select all nodes contained in the document.
Clear the current selection.
Moves the current selection to the front.
Moves the current selection to the back.
Opens a dialog, which lets you find elements in the graph structure. See The Find Dialog for more details.
Highlights the next element, that matches the criteria, that were specified during the last call to Find.
Highlights the previous element, that matches the criteria, that were specified during the last call to Find.
Zooms into the current view one step.
Zooms out of the current view one step.
Sets the zoom level to 100%.
Zooms and moves the viewport, so that the whole graph gets visible.
Repaints the current viewport.
This submenu can be used to switch to different modes. See The different view modes for a more detailed description of the different modes.
The layout menu provides access to the powerful layout algorithms that are part of the yFiles API. Layout Algorithms contains a more detailed description of the different options.
The tools menu provides access to a wealth of useful tools that can be used to gain information about, the currently edited document, modify the document visually and structurally and to create all new documents from scratch. Tools offers a more detailed description of the available tools.
This method is only available in the non-classic version of yEd. It provides access to the hierarchic features that are available in yEd. These are described in more detail in Working with Hierarchic and Nested Graphs.
Shows the help file.
Displays version and legal information.