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General Board / Re: Application of SysML parametric blocks

« on: October 18, 2012, 09:55:40 am »

Hi Phil,

I get all the way to this step in your instructions: "Right click on a Constraint Block and select SysML > Edit Constraint Script to view an example script"

When I right click on a Constraint Block the list does not include SysML > Edit Constraint Script

I have the SysML add on loaded.  Maybe that's interferring somehow.

Thanks, Art

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General Board / Application of SysML parametric blocks

« on: October 18, 2012, 04:42:53 am »

I'm building a model using EA SysML of the automobile design in chapter 3 of the book "A Practical Guide to SysML."  The depiction of the constraint blocks is different in EA than in the book.  I've built the model using both approaches.  For the EA approach I'm using the audio player example that comes with the tool.  

I don't see in the EA example where in the constraint blocks the equations are actually formally defined.  There is a great writeup of the equation in the notes section.  I guess I was also expecting the equations to be in the constraints compartment, but I don't see them at all.  

The parametric diagram of the constraint block EchoDSP wires together the constraintproperty blocks to execute the constraints.  In the constraintproperty blocks is a property field that identifies constraint block for the type.  

I'm assuming the definition of the constraints is somewhere in the model, I just can't find it where I would expect it.  It looks like the book and the EA example deviate here.  

I am stuck on this.  Does anyone know where the constraints are actually defined?

Thanks ahead.

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General Board / Re: Diagram I/O edge connectors

« on: October 17, 2012, 10:53:42 am »

Thanks that did the job!

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General Board / Diagram I/O edge connectors

« on: October 17, 2012, 03:42:26 am »

I'm using SysML.  In the book "A Practical Guide to SysML" many of the diagrams show the outline of the diagram (the frame of the diagram) as an object in the window.  That makes it possible to drag and drop I/O (ports) from other diagrams onto the edge of the diagram of interest.  I can't seem to find an option in EA that makes the outline (frame) of the diagram of interest an object in the window.  So the drag and drop doesn't work.  Any ideas on how to make this work with EA?

Thanks

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Single object used on multiple diagrams

« on: October 16, 2012, 05:01:42 am »

I'm using SysML.  I don't know how to confirm an object created on one diagram is the same object of the same name on another diagram.  The following example is a specific case, but it pretty much applies across the board for me.  

Example:  A block is created on a BDD, called "Car."  A part is created on an IBD called "Car."  I don't know how to confirm the Car on the BDD is the same Car as on IBD.  I suspect they are not.  Since I want them to refer to the same car, I want to know how to make that happen in EA.  

This could be a general SysML question.  My apology ahead for being only partially SysML literate.

Thanks