How to create an auxiliary view of a Model Element using the API?

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Hi, I’m developing a plug-in and for a specific functionality I need to get an existing Model Element and create an auxiliary view in a specific diagram using the API methods, but I’m struggling to do that.
One way of doing this on VP is by opening Model Explorer, right-click a Model Element > Create View in Active Diagram.
I tried to use the createDiagramElement() method from IDiagramUIModel and then change the name of the element to the same as the one I wanna replicate, but it didn’t work. I also tried to use addDiagramElement(), but I would need to pass the auxiliary view as an argument, and I just have the master view. Is there a method that creates an auxiliary view by passing the master view?
Or is there any other way to solve this problem?

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Hi. You need to method createDiagramElement(IDiagramUIModel d,IModelElement m) in the DiagramManager Class. if IDiagramElement master is the Masterview you can create an auxilary view in IDiagramUIModel dia with the following code:
IDiagramElement aux=DiagramManager.instance().createDiagramElement(dia,master.getModelElement());

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