The tools in the vertical toolbar on the left of the EER Diagram tab are used for designing an EER diagram. Start by creating a table using the table tool. The table tool is the rectangular grid in the middle of the vertical toolbar. Mousing over it shows the message, Place a New Table (T).

Clicking this tool changes the mouse pointer to a hand with a rectangular grid. Create a table on the canvas by clicking anywhere on the EER Diagram grid.

Right-click the table and choose Edit in New Window from the pop-up menu. This opens the table editor, docked at the bottom of the application.

The table name defaults to table1. Change the name by entering invoice into the Name: text box. Notice that the name of the tab in the table editor and the name of the table on the canvas, both change to this new value.

Pressing Tab or Enter while the cursor is in the table name text box, selects the Columns tab of the table editor and creates a default column named, idinvoice.

Pressing Tab or Enter again sets the focus on the Datatype drop-down list box with INT selected. Notice that a field has been added to the table on the EER canvas.

Pressing Tab yet again and the focus shifts to adding a second column. Add a Description and a Customer_id column. When you are finished, close the table editor, by clicking the x button on the top left of the table editor.

Select the table tool again and place another table on the canvas. Name this table invoice_item. Next click the 1:n Non-Identifying Relationship tool.

First click the invoice_item table; notice that a red border indicates that this table is selected. Next click the invoice table. Doing this creates a foreign key in the invoice_item table, the table on the “many” side of the relationship. This relationship between the two tables is shown graphically in crow's foot notation.

Revert to the default mouse pointer by clicking the arrow at the top of the vertical toolbar. Click on the invoice_item table and select the Foreign keys tab.

Click the Foreign key Name text box. The referenced table should show in the Referenced Table column and the appropriate column in the Referenced Column column.

To delete the relationship between two tables, click the line joining the tables and then press Ctrl Delete.

Experiment with the other tools on the vertical toolbar. Delete a relationship by selecting the eraser tool and clicking the line joining two tables. Create a view, add a text object, or add a layer.

Save your changes to a MySQL Workbench Models file (MWB) by choosing Save from the File menu or by using the keyboard command Ctrl S.