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The Inheritance tab represents classifiers, packages, data types, and stereotypes hierarchy within your project. Inheritance according to the UML Specification is shown using the generalization relationship.

To open the Inheritance tab, do one of the following

• At the top of the Model Browser, click the Inheritance tab.
• If the Inheritance tab is hidden, from the Window menu, select Inheritance.
   

The Inheritance tab consists of the following two components:

• Inheritance tab toolbar
• Inheritance tree

Inheritance tab toolbar

The Inheritance tab toolbar contains the following buttons

Button	Tooltip text	Description
Image Removed	Collapse All	Status colour Green title Available from 19.0 SP1  Collapse all of the currently elements in the Containment tree.
Image Removed	Collapse Selected Recursively	Status colour Green title Available from 19.0 SP1  Collapses only selected node and all subnodes in that node.
	Favorites	Opens the Favorites menu for choosing to do one of the following: Add a selected element to favorites Open the dialog for managing favorites  Navigate to a desired favorite in the Containment tree
	Quick Find	Opens the Quick Find dialog.
	Options	Click to open the Options menu and then select: Show Applied Stereotypes - shows or hides the applied stereotypes next to the element name in the Containment tree. Show Only Hierarchies - at the top of the hierarchy shows the parent element. Invert Tree - Inverts the tree hierarchy - shows the child element at the top of the hierarchy

The same actions you may perform using the shortcut menu of the Inheritance tree.

Working with model elements in the Inheritance tree

You can work with elements in the Inheritance tree using the commands available from the selected element's shortcut menu. The shortcut menu contains the following commands: