Archi Tutorial
(base on User Guide 5.8.0)
14 Opening, Saving and Printing 14.01 Opening an Existing Model 14.03 Closing a Model in the Model Tree 14.04 Printing A View (Diagram) 15 Exporting and Importing the Model in CSV Format 15.01 Export Model To CSV 15.02 Importing CSV Data into a Model 16 Importing Another Model into the Current Model 16.01 Importing another Archi Model 17 The Open Group Exchange File Format 17.01 Exporting and Settings 17.04 Importing from an Open Exchange XML file 24.01 Searching the model 25.01 Customizable Report (see:19.02 Creating a New Model from a Template)
25.02 User Report Template (see:23 Preferences)
19.01 Creating a New Template 19.02 Creating a New Model from a Template 19.03 Managing your Templates 20 Relationships in ArchiMate Archi® is an Open Source, cross-platform tool to create ArchiMate models ArchiMate® Tool Certification Other Open Source Alternatives Other Commercial Alternatives 02 Installing and Launching Archi 03.02 Undo/Redo (contextual per model) 04 Creating a New ArchiMate Model 05.01 Adding Elements Directly to the Model Tree
05.02 Specialized Elements in the "New" Menu
(see:23 Preferences13.03 Specializations Manager)
05.03 Folders and Organization (see:05.01 Adding Elements Directly to the Model Tree06.11 Adding New Elements to the View from the Palette)
05.03.01 User Sub-Folders 05.04 Working in the Model Tree 05.04.03 Deleting Objects from the Model Tree 05.04.04 Renaming an Object in the Model Tree (see:08 The Properties Windows)
05.04.05 Duplicating an Element or View in the Model Tree 05.05 Changing an Object's ArchiMate Concept Type in the Model Tree (see:23 Preferences)
05.06 Editing Properties for an Object in the Model Tree (see:08 The Properties Windows)
05.07 Concepts in the Model Tree and Views 05.08 Synchronizing Selections in the Model Tree and a View 05.11 Searching and Filtering in the Model Teee 05.11.01 Filtering Object Types 05.11.02 Filtering User Properties 05.11.03 Filtering Specializations 05.11.04 Show All Folders 05.11.06 Match Regular Expression 05.11.08 Find and Replace 06.02 Creating a New View (see:05.01 Adding Elements Directly to the Model Tree)
06.04.02 Using the Keyboard Instead of the Mouse in a View 06.04.03 Automatic Scrolling in a View (see:12 The Outline Windows)
06.04.05 Find and Replace 06.06 Specialized Concepts in the Palette 06.07 The Detached Palette 06.08 Palette Selection Tools (see:06.37 Alignment Tools, Guides and the Grid)
06.09 Palette Creation Tools (see:06.08 Palette Selection Tools)
06.09.02 Notes and Groups 06.09.03 ArchiMate Elements 06.11 Adding New Elements to the View from the Palette 06.11.01 Adding Elements to the View Automatically Adds them to the Model Tree 06.12 Editing the View's Elements' Properties (see:08 The Properties Windows)
06.13 Adding New Relationships (Connections) to the View from the Palette 2025/09/04: The screenshot in current (2025/09/04) version User Guide is out of date, see this post: https://forum.archimatetool.com/index.php?topic=1666.msg8454;topicseen#msg8454 , Phil will update that in next version
06.14 Information about Connections 06.15 Adding Circular Relationships (Connections) 06.16 Adding New Relationships and Elements to the View using the Magic Connector 06.17 Adding Elements and Relations from the Model Tree to a View 06.20 Adding a Note Connection 06.40 Adding a Legend (new) 06.22 Adding a Reference to Another View 06.23 Connection Bend-points 06.24 Setting the Properties of a Connection (see:08.05 Relationship Connection Appearance Properties)
06.25 Setting the Connection Router Type for a View Manhattan PBC Routing Strategy: https://www.pcbbuy.com/news/What-is-Manhattan-Routing-in-PCB-Manufacturing-Process.html#:~:text=Manhattan%20routing%20is%20a%20PCB%20routing%20strategy.%20You,vertical%20traces%20are%20used%20on%20the%20horizontal%20layer .
06.26 Container Elements and Nested Element Relationships 06.27 Creating, Showing and Hiding Relationships between Nested Parent/Child Elements 06.27.01 Example - Nested sub-processes in a Composite Relationship 06.27.02 Adding new elements to a parent element 06.27.03 Moving existing elements to a parent element 06.28 Setting the Order of Overlapping Elements 06.29 Selecting Elements in a View (see:06.08 Palette Selection Tools)
06.30 Copying and Pasting Elements in a View 06.31 Copy As Image to Clipboard 06.32 Deleting Elements and Relationships (Connections) in a View 06.33 Delete from View (keep children) This feature was added in Archi v5.5.0
06.35 Changing an Object's ArchiMate Concept Type in a View (see:05.05 Changing an Object's ArchiMate Concept Type in the Model Tree)
06.36 Select in Model Tree 06.41 Select Objects of Same Type (New) 06.37 Alignment Tools, Guides and the Grid 06.38 Showing a View in Full Screen Mode 06.39 Export View As Image 07.01 Setting the Viewpoint 08 The Properties Windows 08.03 Element Appearance Properties 08.03.01 The Appearance Tab 08.04 Relationship Properties 08.05 Relationship Connection Appearance Properties 08.07 View Reference Properties 08.10 Connection Properties 10 The Visualiser Windows 10.04 Relationship Filter 22 The Canvas Modeling Toolkit 22.02 Getting into the Details 22.02.01 The Canvas Palette 22.02.02 Construcing a new Canvas - an example 22.02.03 Adding Hints and Locking 22.07 Adding Images to Objects 22.08 Saving a Canvas as a Template 29.09 Creating a New Canvas from a Template 22.10 Managing your Canvas Templates 23.01 Appearance, Colours, and Fonts Preferences 23.02 Canvas Modelling Toolkit Preferences 23.03 Connections Preferences 23.04 Diagram Preferences 03 Paste Special behaviour 23.05 General Preferences 23.06 Jasper Reports Preferences 23.08 Validator Preferences 24.01 Using the Plug-ins Manager 24.02 Manual installation 13.01 Generate a View from Elements (see:08.12 User Properties)
13.03 Specializations Manager 16.02 Using the Specializations Manager 13.05 Preview HTML Report (see:18.01 HTML Report)