Save, export, and present

Persist work, move project files, and present connected systems clearly.

AAL System Design 0.2 · Dictionary 0.2.0

Save and project transfer

Save keeps your editable work. Export a project for a portable backup, or export an image when you only need to share the diagram.

Choose the right output

Action	What it keeps
Save	Source and durable visual settings at the project’s Local or Cloud destination.
Project export	Source and visual settings in a version-2 System Design project file. Import validates it before creating a project.
SVG / PNG	A diagram image, not an editable project backup. Choose a meaningful filename and inspect labels and routes after export.

Presentation mode

Use Present to walk an audience through your system. It hides the editor, Inspector, editing toolbar, grid, minimap, connector handles, and resize controls.

Present the Orders flow

Choose Present. Pan or zoom to Customer → Orders API.
Use floating controls to choose a theme, canvas background, and Professional or Executive preset.
Click an element name to inspect its read-only details. Close the popup with ×.
Use Exit, or Escape when no dialog is open, to return to editing.

Choose a preset

Preset	Result
Professional	Keeps infrastructure detail.
Executive	Reduces secondary metadata while retaining names, provider icons, containment, and connection meaning.

Details and selection

Details can show authored metadata, placement references, direct children, tags, and additional properties for an element or parent.
The centered details popup dims the canvas, traps focus, and scrolls for long content. Escape and outside clicks leave it open.
Selected boxes glow. A selected connector highlights with its endpoints; connections between explicitly selected boxes also highlight. Selecting one box alone does not highlight every incident line.
Request and response remain separately selectable. These highlights are temporary and do not replace saved colors.

System Design presentation with editing panels hidden and infrastructure connections visible — Floating presentation controls replace editing toolbars and panels.
Names, elements, and relationship meaning remain visible; selection emphasis is transient.
Select the screenshot to inspect it at full size.

Keyboard shortcuts and themes

Use these shortcuts while working on the canvas or in the source editor. Ctrl applies on Windows/Linux; Cmd applies on macOS.

Keyboard reference

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl/Cmd+S	Save.
Ctrl/Cmd+Z	Undo.
Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z	Redo; also available through History.
Delete / Backspace	Remove selected canvas objects through validation.
Shift+Alt+F	Format System Design source.
Tab in source	Indent.