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General Board / Re: Next build of 16.1? or 16.x?

« on: April 08, 2024, 08:49:55 am »

Just for your information,

The information about version 17 being the next release was mentioned in Tom's session at the last Sparx Global Summit.

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General Board / Re: Hiding flow connectors trouble

« on: March 21, 2024, 10:25:01 am »

This is not related to the main topic, but I would like to give an example where we want to hide connectors in other diagrams.

In the UAF (Unified Architecture Framework) there are often the same elements in 2 or more diagrams. For example, St-Tx and St-Sr have the same elements, but we show 'is-a' relationships in St-Tx and we show 'has-a' relationships in St-Sr.

So in Enterprise Architect we show only Generalisations in the St-Tx and only Aggregations in the St-Sr and we hide other types of connectors. In this case, the Freeze Visible feature in Enterprise Architect is necessary. (Please see the example model in the UAF specification.)

I mean, it might not be wrong if we want to hide some connectors in some diagrams. It depends on what we want to show in each view (diagram).

HTH,

33

Suggestions and Requests / Re: New connector visibility and other diagrams

« on: March 21, 2024, 10:10:07 am »

Hello Thomas,

The Freeze Visible property may help. When this property is enabled in the Properties window for diagrams, connectors added in other diagrams are not added to the diagram.

I think it must be very annoying to be asked to show or hide every time we create a connector.

HTH,

34

Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Integration with Aras Innovator PLM

« on: March 14, 2024, 10:29:02 am »

I am not a user of it, but we can find an integration by googling with the keywords 'Enterprise Architect - Aras Integration'.

HTH,

35

Bugs and Issues / Re: v16 Diagram Frames

« on: March 14, 2024, 10:16:05 am »

Helllo all,

This issue can still be reproduced when diagram frames are on the SysML diagrams. I have already reported this issue, but it has not been fixed yet because there is no release after my report. I hope in the next release. (To do so, please post the bug report to Sparx. Number of reports for the same issue could raise the priority.)

HTH,

36

Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: UPDM Add-In Model Validation

« on: March 13, 2024, 05:02:17 pm »

Hello,

If you have downloaded and installed from the following URL, the UPDM does not work on the 64-bit version of Enterprise Architect.
https://sparxsystems.com/products/mdg/#updm

Now we can use the UPDM profile (and also UAF 1.1) without the add-in when we use the Unified or Ultimate editions because the UPDM profile is now built-in.
But the built-in profile does not have the validation rule, so you cannot use the validation.

I do not know if we can use the UPDM add-in on 32-bit Enterprise Architect because, as I wrote above, Enterprise Architect already has a built-in UPDM profile, so the profiles will be duplicated.

I think the UPDM add-in is useless because the latest add-in was released 10 years ago. We cannot use the validation, but it is better to use the latest built-in UPDM (or UAF 1.1).

HTH,

37

PCS General Board / Re: PCS + http + Floating License server ?

« on: March 11, 2024, 10:10:39 am »

Hi Guillaume,

You must always set up HTTPS to use the Pro Cloud Server as a license server.

HTH,

38

General Board / Re: Display a subset of part properties

« on: February 29, 2024, 10:18:59 am »

Hello bechbp,

if you allow to apply a stereotype to Parts, you can hide part of them by the following steps.
1. add any stereotype to Parts which you want to hide
2. reload diagram, now the stereotyped Parts are moved to a new compartment
3. right-click the Block and select the Compartment Visibility, then uncheck the stereotyped compartment in the Show Element Compartments checkboxes

HTH,

39

Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Navigation Cell Hyperlink Property

« on: February 22, 2024, 10:36:04 am »

Hello Phil,

In the t_object, StyleEx has its image (icon) information and Alias has its display name. And we need to set Ntype (Subtype) to 82.

Maybe there are all about the Navigation cells, so there is no other information in other tables.

HTH,

40

Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: AddPropertiesTab XML documentation missing

« on: January 19, 2024, 10:23:16 am »

Hello Michael,

I am sorry, I did not realize that the example is in the another help page.
Please ignore my post...

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: AddPropertiesTab XML documentation missing

« on: January 18, 2024, 10:00:10 am »

Hello Michael,

You might have already found the XML format, but you can find the XML example in the Enterprise Architect Example model:

1. Open Example Model
2. double-click the 'Model Based Add-ins' Navigation cell in the default diagram
3. click the MyDemoAddin class and then click the ShowPropertiesList method in the Class
4. select 'Develop' Ribbon | Behaviour button | Edit Internal Code

HTH,

42

General Board / Re: SysML simulation, Send Signal, AcceptEvent how to use the Signal Parameters

« on: January 17, 2024, 11:13:13 am »

Just FYI,

Serge posted the same question to another forum and I added a reply. The reply might help you and all other people who have the same question.
https://sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php/topic,48028.0.html

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General Board / Re: Script Automation - add asynchronous signal to sequence diagram

« on: December 19, 2023, 01:05:29 pm »

Hello tweber,

You can use Connector.Properties collection. In this collection, when Property.Name = "Kind", set Property.Value = "Signal" and similart to "IsAsync".

HTH,

44

Bugs and Issues / Re: Images with transparent background.

« on: December 13, 2023, 10:55:50 am »

Maybe this is the same as what Geert says, but we need to drag the png file in the Explorer and drop the file onto a diagram and paste as an image.
The copy-and-paste via the clipboard will lost its transparent information. (I do not know that this is a limitation of Windows or EA.)

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Uml Process / Re: SysML SendMessage, AcceptEvent, State Machine effect, Signal data and simulation

« on: November 30, 2023, 04:12:54 pm »

Hello Serge,

Please try the following steps.

1. Create a Trigger ('Trigger1') and a Signal ('Signal1')
2. specify the type of Trigger1 to 'Signal' and assign Signal1 as its signal
3. add an attribute 'att' to Signal1
4. create a Statemachine diagram and assign Trigger1 to a Transition
5. create an Action and enter the following code as its effect

UIBroadcastSignal("Signal1",{'att' : 1});
// 1 is an example value

6. for a State after the Transition, you can refer the passed value (1 in this case) like:

sim.x = sim.Signal1.att;
// sim.x will be 1 (you need to define sim.x before this code)

This means that we (maybe) cannot use SendSignal Action with specified parameters but use the UIBroadcastSignal macro with parameters.

HTH,