Open a graph & choose a variant

Understand can draw the relationships in your analyzed code as an interactive graph — a node-and-edge diagram for things like what a function calls, what a file depends on, how data flows through a variable, or how classes relate. Graphs are available for a single entity, an architecture, or the whole project, and always reflect your most recent analysis. See which graph should I use? to map a question to a specific graph, or the graph catalog for the full list.

Open a graph

• For an entity or architecture: right-click it (in source, the IB, the Architecture Browser, or any list) → Graphical Views, then pick a graph. This works anywhere an entity or architecture appears.
• For the project: Graphs → Project Graphs.
• The toolbar's graph button ( Show Graphic Views Menu) opens Graphical Views for whatever's currently selected.

Other shortcuts on the Graphs menu

The Graphs menu also holds shortcuts unrelated to opening a project graph: an architecture's Dependency Graphs and UML Class Diagram, quick access to Graphical Views for the currently selected entity/architecture, and Load Saved Graph….

A Calls graph opens in its own tab. The Variant selector sits at the left of the graph toolbar; the panel on the right holds the graph's display options.

Switch between variants

Related graphs are grouped, so once a graph is open you can switch variants without starting over — pick one from the Variant dropdown in the graph toolbar:

The Variant menu for a Calls graph — the current variant is checked.

Common variants:

Variant	What it shows
Simplified	A clean, modern view (e.g. a simple call / called-by tree).
Classic	The legacy view.
Cluster	Groups nodes into collapsible clusters — good for large graphs.
Butterfly	Both directions at once (callers and callees, or depends-on and depended-on-by).
Internal	Restricts to relationships within the selected scope.
Relationship	Prompts you to click a second entity and shows how the two relate.
Compare	The cross-version comparison variant.
Custom	The default variant name for a plugin graph.

The variants available depend on the target (entity, architecture, or project) and the graph you chose, and different variants can offer different right-click menu options.

Butterfly: graph or variant?

Butterfly shows both directions around a root, but where it lives depends on the root. For an entity (e.g. a function) it's a graph in its own right — pick it directly under Graphical Views (see the graph catalog). For an architecture it's a variant — of the Dependencies graph and other architecture graphs — which you switch to from the Variant menu.