Exporting and Importing Models

How to export and import your model as a file, and copy or export diagrams as images.

Metapad can export your whole model as a file, and copy or export any diagram as a picture.

Exporting a Model

1. In the top bar, click Export
2. Choose Export as JSON, or Export as ZIP (with assets) to include uploaded files such as images and documents
3. The file is downloaded and contains your complete model:
   • All Node Types and Relationship Types (metamodel)
   • All Nodes and Relationships (model instances)
   • All Diagrams and their layouts
   • All property values and descriptions

Copying and exporting a diagram

The zoom toolbar on every diagram, including metamodel diagrams and simulation dashboards, has four buttons. The same entries are in the canvas right-click menu.

Button	What you get	Best for
Copy as Image	A sharp PNG on your clipboard	Pasting into Miro, PowerPoint, Word or Slack
Copy as SVG	The vector drawing on your clipboard	Figma, Miro or any vector editor, as editable shapes
Export diagram as SVG	An .svg file	Documentation and websites; stays sharp at any size
Export diagram as PNG	A .png file	Anywhere that takes images

Live charts on a dashboard are included in the picture. A single chart also has Export chart (SVG / PNG) and Copy as Image in its properties. The Explorer has the same copy and export buttons.

Very large diagrams: images are automatically scaled down to fit what browsers and tools like Miro can handle. If a diagram is still too large, Metapad suggests SVG instead, which has no size limit.

Importing a Model

1. In the top bar, click Import
2. Select a file previously exported from Metapad
3. Importing in the editor replaces the open model's contents, and elements keep their IDs

Tips

• Export regularly as a backup of your model
• Exports are complete — they contain everything needed to recreate the model
• SVG exports are great for embedding diagrams in documentation