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Webel: SysMLv1: Overview of annotated Diagram Slides and Note pages related to general high level SysML modelling principles (some specific to MagicDraw/Cameo). Recommended reading for all Webel SysML/MBSE course attendees.

TIP: SysMLv1: MagicDraw/Cameo: Activity Diagrams: Consider using the Pin display mode 'Name And Type Labels Inside' for 'Position of Labels'. Dr Darren swears by it!

TIP: UML/SysML: MagicDraw/Cameo: Activity Diagrams: Pins: You can display the 'multiplicity' of the underlying Parameter on Pins symbols using Edit Compartments. (The 'multiplicity' shows anyway if the :Type is shown.)

TIP: UML/SysML: MagicDraw/Cameo: Activity Diagrams: ActivityParameterNodes: Displaying the underlying 'parameter::multiplicity' using Edit Compartments is extremely useful!

SysML/UML: MagicDraw/Cameo: To display the body of an OpaqueBehavior on a usage (CallBehaviorAction) in an Activity Diagram use an element property callout of 'Body' into a Note with a handle to the CallBehaviorAction

[FIXED in v2022Refresh1]: BUG: MagicDraw/Cameo: 19SP3/v2022xGolden: Activity Diagrams: Pin display mode 'Position of Labels' does not stick, label positions in Diagrams have sometimes moved after re-opening a project [and "FIX"]

Webel: SysML: MagicDraw/Cameo: Strongly recommend that you set the Perspective to 'Full Featured' and 'Expert' at the very beginning at the start of every new project

Mathematica: GOTCHA: Print[] from Manipulate always goes to the Messages console notebook

Webel: WISHLIST: MagicDraw/Cameo: UML/SysML: Ability to freeze the Feature lines shown on symbols under Edit Compartments so that the diagram does not "break" when new Features are added elsewhere (reduce graphical coupling)

MagicDraw SysML: [v2022xGolden,v2022xRefresh1]: ISSUE: Automatic assignment of the Type of the 'result' of a ReadStructuralFeatureAction not working with drag & drop.

Mathematica: HOWTO Create collapsible control groups in Manipulate GUIs

MagicDraw/Cameo 19SP3/v2022xGolden: [FIXED in v2022xRefresh1]: Activity Diagrams: Pin display mode 'Position of Labels' does not work correctly for 'Name And Type Labels Inside', only shows the Name inside (not the Label) [and WORKAROUND]

Webel electronics modelling recipe for SysML: Diagrams can be made less verbose by using stereotype icon shape display mode, by not showing names and types on obvious Ports, by hiding context-specific values, and by omitting {net} tagged values.

MagicDraw/Cameo: Rule: Internal Block Diagram and Block structure compartment: only one symbol for a given Property may be shown.

MagicDraw/Cameo: Display option: You can choose whether to show Domain Specific Language (DSL) stereotypes: 'None', 'All', 'Only Last'

Webel: SysML: Electronics modelling: TIP: Use a custom Connector stereotype '<>' with the keyword '<>' to carry a 'net' property. (Use of punctuation in Stereotype names is not usually recommended and the keyword is not usually displayed.)

Webel Parsing Analysis: MagicDraw/Cameo: SysML1.6+: ElementGroup-based Snippets do not list in the compartment of Package/Model symbols because ElementGroup is based on the UML Comment, which does not list in Package/Model symbols.

Webel Parsing Analysis: An "index" Parsing Analysis Diagram (PAD) showing a collection of Snippets may optionally (but need not always) show the /member tagged value of each Snippet.

Webel Parsing Analysis: Pseudo Semantic Triple: When «pa:triple» is applied to a named uni-directional Association the name and a consistent direction arrow should be displayed on the Association symbol in diagrams.

Webel Parsing Analysis: Pseudo Semantic Triple: For «pa:triple» applied to a named one-to-one Dependency, the source is the subject, the name of the Dependency is the predicate, the target is the object.

Webel Parsing Analysis: Pseudo Semantic Triple: For «pa:triple» applied to a named one-to-one or one-to-many uni-directional Association, the non-navigable end Property is the subject, the name is the predicate, the navigable end Property is the object.

Webel Parsing Analysis: A "focus" Parsing Analysis Diagram (PAD) for one or more Snippets SHOULD always show the /member tagged value of every Snippet.

MagicDraw/Cameo v19SP3: The display of units can't be disabled on the initialValues compartment for context-specific values, which can lead to inconsistencies when an OpaqueExpression that references value property names is used.

Webel Parsing Analysis: The symbol for a Parsing Analysis Container MUST be able to indicate the unique domain source document from which its analysed text extract was quoted.

Webel Parsing Analysis: The symbol for a Parsing Analysis Container MUST be able to OPTIONALLY display a list of names of elicited model elements (a.k.a. members)

Webel Parsing Analysis: It SHOULD be possible to relate one Parsing Analysis Container to another and stereotype that relationship as an RDF/OWL-like semantic triple

Webel Parsing Analysis: It MUST be possible to collect elicited members of a Parsing Analysis Container graphically in diagrams using relationship-like path drawing (not just via a specification dialog or other indirect modelling means)

Webel Parsing Analysis: The symbol for the relationship between a Parsing Analysis Container and elicited model elements SHOULD be a dashed line (like the anchor/handle line used with a UML Comment)

Webel Parsing Analysis: The symbol for a Parsing Analysis Container MUST be text-friendly and evocative of quoting a domain source text extract

MagicDraw/Cameo v19SP3: vs SysPhS-1.1: Modelica export: Direct binding from a PhSVariable value property within a FlowProperty of a Port to an inner value property does not flatten. WORKAROUND: Use an intermediate constraint property.

MagicDraw/Cameo v19SP3: Does not support display of context-specific values on a FlowProperty symbol within a Port in an IBD

UML/SysML: In Internal Block Diagrams: If you have a Port with a name that indicates a unique role AND and if there is an ItemFlow on a Connector that implies or suggests the Type of the Port, consider hiding the Type on the Port symbol.

MagicDraw/Cameo: SysML Parametrics: To colour instance table cells to indicate broken constraints you need to create at least one Simulation Configuration Diagram, which loads a validation profile with colour coding rules.

MagicDraw/Cameo: Display options: On an 'entry', 'doActivity', or 'exit' Behavior of a State you may choose to display the specification code of an OpaqueBehavior or just its name.

MagicDraw/Cameo: HOWTO: Create a redefining value property with a default value using drag-n-drop

MagicDraw/SysML vs SysPhS-1.1: Can't reproduce the "shortcut" property path representation of some properties nested within Ports as shortcut symbols fully inside the diagram frame. (Might be a specification diagram style issue.)

MDSysML/Cameo 19SP3: Showing stereotype keywords on FlowProperty rows is UNSUPPORTED

Cameo Simulation Toolkit: GOTCHA: In the Variable pane reference properties are hidden by default (show them using the Options pulldown menu)

SysMLv1: Cameo: In Package Diagrams and Block Definition Diagrams use the owner indicator display option for Classifier symbol headers when indicating the owner (except where a containment operator suffices). The mode 'Below Element Name' is preferred.

MagicDraw/Cameo: The tagged values HTML editor can't handle overlines or all macrons.

MagicDraw/Cameo: TIP: tagged values with no specified type or String types optionally support HTML.

Webel Parsing Analysis: If the dashed-line "anchors" from your «snippet» ElementGroup symbols to elicited elements make a «pa» Parsing Analysis Diagram (PAD) too hard to read, try making them light grey using symbol properties.

MagicDraw/Cameo: HOWTO share a "Block-to-Block" ItemFlow - that was created by 'Between Part Types' mode - between two Connectors. (FYI only, not a Webel-recommended technique.)

SysMLv1: MagicDraw/Cameo: If redisplay of an Association with an InformationFlow or ItemFlow creates a strange extra dashed arrow with «ItemFlow» keywords (separate from the Association) just remove (only) that extra dashed line from the diagram.

Webel: MagicDraw/Cameo: STRONGLY RECOMMEND: On EVERY project of ANY kind set the Environment Perspective to 'Full Featured' and check the Expert box, even if you are a "novice". For SysML use 'Full-Featured' not just 'System Engineer'!

Cameo/MagicDraw: The Classifier specification setting 'isAbstract' is (for reasons that beggar belief or engineering reason) not by default visible in the Element specification dialog. Enable expertise level 'All' (and for always everwhere).

Webel: MagicDraw/Cameo: Set EVERY element properties & symbol properties filter to 'All' (yes, not just 'Expert', to 'All', even if you are a "novice" on your first project) in EVERY dialog and every project option setting. Use the search filters!

MagicDraw/Cameo: HOWTO turn off verbose context information in SysML-style diagram frames

MagicDraw/Cameo: You can control how or whether applied Sterotypes are displayed on most Element symbols using the 'Show Stereotypes' display option (and in some cases this affects how the entire symbol is displayed).

MagicDraw/Cameo: You can assign values to 'tagged values' of Stereotypes via the Tags section in the specification dialog. Make sure you have one of the 'On Shape' or 'In Compartment' Show Tagged Values display options enabled.

MagicDraw/Cameo: You and can choose which Features, element properties, or tagged values of Stereotypes to show on most symbol compartment types

ALL Model-Based Engineering: Just because you can't see a Feature or some other aspect of a SysML (or UML) Element in a tool on a symbol does NOT mean it does not exist in the underlying model (repository)! The model is not just what is DISPLAYED!

Rule #1: A UML or SysML Element in a tool is NOT just an Element symbol in a diagram! A Note is not an Element (compare with a Comment).

Webel: Recommend maintain a basic black-and-white style file for starting new projects. Webel course attendees have access to a basic Webel.stl file (or clone and tune the 'OMG SysML style').

Webel: MagicDraw/Cameo: First recommended display style settings and project option steps for every SysML (and UML) project. [Includes TIP: DO NOT show the Diagram Name in the optional Diagram Info adornment, show it on the Diagram frame only]

In a SysML Activity Diagram a control flow may be notated with a dashed line and stick arrowhead; this helps distinguish a ControlFlow from an ObjectFlow symbol.

MagicDraw/Cameo: The ordering of feature in a SysML IBD :features compartment may differ from that in its defining Block (and there are no corresponding display options for controlling sorting).

MagicDraw/Cameo: BUG: Sometimes the 'Show Inherited' display feature does not work immediately on Class and Block compartments or SysML IBD :features compartments unless you toggle a compartment (close then re-open it).

MagicDraw/Cameo: The display option 'Show Value Type Units' does not seem to work on the Slots of an InstanceSpecification in a BDD

MagicDraw/Cameo v19SP3: The SysML 'properties' compartment of a ValueType is called 'attributes' like in UML2.5.1 for DataTypes [CLAIMED FIXED in v2021x]

MagicDraw/Cameo has many tool-specific Stereotype icons, most of which can be hidden in most diagrams using Stereotype and icon display options.

MagicDraw/Cameo: If you want to show a Property or Port listed both in its corresponding compartment on a Class or Block symbol and as the end of an Association in the same diagram, set the display option Show Association Ends As Attributes/Ports to 'all'

MagicDraw/Cameo: Has a symbol display option 'Show Inherited' applicable to (amongst others) Features of Class and Block symbols, Property symbols, and underlying Featured of Property symbols in SysML IBDs when using SysML Feature Compartments

MagicDraw/Cameo: Does not show the “structure” label at the top of an internal structure compartment.

Webel Parsing Analysis: If you wish to show a «snippet» comment symbol (with its body text) in a presentation diagram (that is NOT a «pa» diagram) remove the '/member' tagged value from display so the only visible tagged value is 'source'.

MagicDraw/Cameo: The default swimlanes in SysML Activity Diagrams are AllocateActivityPartition swimlanes with the «allocate» keyword applied.

MagicDraw/Cameo: In a Dependency Matrix the mode 'Show Element = All' can lead to very large matrices (but it enables you to interactively create relationships for elements that don't yet have any).

MagicDraw/Cameo: A Requirement may appear on many kinds of such as a Block Definition Diagram or Package Diagram, not just a Requirement Diagram

MagicDraw/Cameo: If a particular symbol for a tool does not support compartments for the requirements relationships 'refines', 'satisfies', 'tracedFrom' and 'verifies' use a callout into a Note instead

The ProxyPort «proxy» and FullPort «full» stereotype keywords can quickly lead to clutter in diagrams. The SysML Revision Task Force is working on some new concise notational indicators on the Port rectangle symbol itself.

MagicDraw/Cameo: Using the display option to show labels inside Port rectangle symbols or to use SysML compartments on Port symbols hides any flow direction indicators.

UML/SysML: In Internal Block Diagrams: Consider hiding the name of a named Port or Property in a Diagram if its Type is sufficient to indicate its role.

The UML InformationFlow notation and the SysML ItemFlow notation can sometimes clash with the notation of named Associations and named and typed Connectors

MagicDraw/Cameo: Stereotypes should be created/managed in UML Profile Diagrams and owned by Profile packages, but Stereotypes and Metaclasses can be displayed on UML Class Diagrams and SysML Block Definition Diagrams

Provided/required Interface "lollipop" and "socket" (a.k.a. ball-and-socket) notation can quickly lead to clutter in UML Composite Structure Diagrams and SysML Internal Block Diagrams. SysML provided/required DirectedFeature notation is cleaner.

[HISTORICAL] ISSUE: UML: MagicDraw UML: Showing Port labels (name and type) inside Port rectangle symbols does not always work well with provided/required Interface "lollipop" and "socket" (a.k.a. ball-and-socket) notation

MagicDraw/Cameo: To callout the element properties of Diagram's context Element into a Note in that Diagram use the context menu item Represent Diagram Context on the Note!

SysML-1.6: double-callout into one Note from 2 part Property symbols in 'Figure 16.4: Requirement satisfaction in an internal block diagram' is not tool friendly

MagicDraw/Cameo: How disable icons in requirement relationship compartments and tagged values compartment on Requirement symbol?

SysML-1.6: Consistency: either show the [metaclass] on all Stereotype symbols in profile diagrams or on none

MagicDraw/Cameo: For the "rake" symbol to show on a CallBehaviorAction typed by a Behavior you must have the Show Rake Icon display option on AND the Behavior must have a Diagram (such as an Activity Diagram)

MagicDraw/Cameo: Does not seem to support showing a trailing colon ':' in labels of Properties or Connectors that are untyped OR are typed by anonymous Classes, Blocks, or Associations. (The notation is used in some SysML specification diagrams.)

Webel recommends (usually) display the header of a Package, Model, ModelLibrary, or Profile in the 'tab' (rather than 'top')

MagicDraw/Cameo: To show the type of initialValues (context-specific values) use the display option Show Slot Type

MagicDraw/Cameo: The display option Apply SysML Callout Style shows elements with their Metaclass or Stereotype keywords and no vendor-specific icons

MagicDraw/Cameo 19SP3: If Continuous or Discrete are applied to the underlying Parameter of an InputPin or an OutputPin the keywords «continuous» or «discrete» can't be displayed

MagicDraw/Cameo 19SP3: if Continuous or Discrete are applied to the Parameter of an ActivityParameterNode the keywords «continuous» or «discrete» can be optionally displayed on the ActivityParameterNode symbol

MagicDraw/Cameo: If the underlying Parameter of an InputPin or OutputPin on a CallBehaviorAction or CallOperationAction is set to streaming, the indicator {stream} optionally displays on the Pin

Webel recommends when using MagicDraw/Cameo: AVOID the "elided Pin" abstract ObjectNode notation on Activity Diagrams, use explicit Pins!

Webel: SysMLv1/UML: Prefer the Name Display Mode 'both' on CallBehaviorAction symbols (rather than 'Show Action Name', 'Show Behavior Name', or 'Show Both or Behavior Name')

MagicDraw/Cameo: Does not support ConstraintNote: Can't callout the Constraint of the ConstraintBlock of a constraint property into a Note on a Parametric Diagram (show on the constraint property symbol instead)

Showing lots of Expose relationships can be unwieldy! Consider instead just showing them in a compartment once they have been created (then remove the relationships visually from the diagram)

The MagicDraw/Cameo feature "Enable Parts Compartments" really means "Enable SysML Compartments"

MagicDraw/Cameo: the (not so well named) "Enable Parts Compartment" feature on Ports is highly recommended and can make diagrams much easier to read.

SysML directed features displayed on Port symbols are often far clearer than UML-style provided/required Interface "ball (lollipop) and socket" notation

MagicDraw/Cameo tool support for Association composition "trees" is not good, and they end up being fiddly to maintain (and they can also cause issues for InformationFlows). Avoid them!

As an alternative to composition Association "trees" consider instead using symbol resize to visually "bracket" composed items (can however be a bit fiddly).

HSUV trail slide: Figure D.4: IBD: Could not show Connector typed by an anonymous Association as 'connectorName:' with trailing colon

MagicDraw/Cameo: the coloured stereotype icons for some kinds of elements can't be removed from all diagrams, tables, or matrix views

In MagicDraw/Cameo the name and any stereotype keywords of a Classifier subject of a UseCase may be shown in the top-middle (not just top-left)

In SysML diagrams, showing the context name and type in the diagram frame can lead to clutter and is not always clear to non-SysML stakeholders (although that is the style used in the specification samples)

Webel: SysMLv1: Highly recommend creating a "focus" Block Definition Diagram (BDD) for each main Block with expanded feature details and relationships to at least nearest neighbours

Style: use line width 2 or 3 on the border of the "focus" element in "focus" diagrams (such as the main Block or Class of a dedicated Block Definition Diagram or Class Diagram)

SysML: MagicDraw/Cameo: Diagram Style: Recommend DO NOT use shadows or gradient fill adornments on diagrams! [TIP OFTEN IGNORED]

Webel: SysML symbol colour styles: Recommend use black symbol borders and no symbol fill (or white symbol fill) EXCEPT for special highlighting. Recommend DO NOT use the default VENDOR-SPECIFIC line and fill colours for symbols! [TIP IS MOSTLY IGNORED]

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