I was evaluating your tool for use of SysML and found one limiting factor that makes it difficult to use for my purposes. I thought I’d leave a note about the intended behavior I’d like to see.
A BDD is many times used to develop the hierarchy of a system, along with other relationships, but the hierarchy is more prominent with systems engineering. A typically work flow would be to develop the BDD, then generate the IBD from the BDD. So the components that are composite to the primary block would be shown internal to it and so on. Then you add ports to represent interfaces, and can start developing and associating interface requirements to the port type.
I could not find a way to automatically add the parts of the block to the IBD. Instead it seems like you have to completely rebuild what you did in the BDD. I think this is a key feature of SysML that should be implemented.
I am glad to inform you that an enhancement has been made to our SysML support. By updating to the latest patch build (build 16_3_20210810aj or higher), you can re-use the properties in an IBD from its parent block. The steps below show how it works:
Here is a BDD:
Open its IBD. Right-click on the diagram background and select Show Properties of Car from the popup menu.
Select the property(ies) to visualize on the diagram.
Click OK. The selected items will be shown on the diagram.
The following article shows you how to update to the latest patch build:
