Understand the art of the possible. My mission is to make executable Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) easy with the Object Management Group's Systems Modeling Language™ (SysML®) and UML® to make simple modeling easy to deploy to the masses. This site provides practical experience of tuning IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® - a precision engineering UML/SysML tool. Rhapsody tips and ideas will be posted with links to videos. You can follow by email (if google app is allowed).
Monday, 14 January 2019
Rational Rhapsody Tip #51 - SysML vs UML: The RepresentParts property (Intermediate)
Despite being a software engineer adept at model-driven software development with Rhapsody (I maintained the C++ training for 4 years), in recent years I’ve been doing a lot with SysML and sometimes I get so used to the fact that a composition creates a part. I forget that this wasn’t always the case. In this video I explain the property that controls this. The property is called ObjectModelGe::Composition::RepresentParts. The video is also a reflection, in a way, of one of the differences systems modeling in the SysML and software modeling in the UML. SysML puts a strong emphasis on the hierarchical decomposition of systems using composition relations, whereas software modelers often use associations. The RepresentParts property switches Rhapsody behavior on BDDs so that composition relations = parts. This brings the bdd and ibd diagrams closer together, allowing bdds to be used to draw hierarchies of Blocks and Parts (which is why I often say that they dance in pairs). This short tips and tricks video illustrates the difference!
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