What is Model-Based Engineering?

Model-Based Engineering quickly generates diagrams for your Block Definition, Internal Block, and Parametric Diagrams. It saves systems engineers from hours of time manipulating incomplete and inelegantly arranged drawings to meet the demands of various stakeholders.

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The ultimate tool for systems engineers

Model-Based Engineering quickly generates diagrams for your Block Definition, Internal Block, and Parametric Diagrams. The application mines the data that describes your SysML model, finds the elements and connections that need to appear in your diagram, and then creates it. Voila!

Model-Based Engineering saves systems engineers from hours of time manipulating incomplete and inelegantly arranged drawings to meet the demands of various stakeholders.

Quick

Generates rigorous SysML diagrams in seconds

Detailed

Shows varying levels of detail on demand

Model-Based Engineering allows end-user to navigate, filter, and zoom.

Interactive

Allows end users to navigate, filter, and zoom

Flexible

Saves and restores drawings across user sessions

Instantly create presentation-quality diagrams

Previously, systems engineers spent 80% of their time arranging diagrams. Using Model-Based Engineering, that number drops to only 5%.

Focus your time and effort on modeling and analysis. Easily and automatically enforce standard drawing conventions for consistent, readable, and dynamic diagrams using built-in layout algorithms.

See it in action

Watch this short video to see Model-Based Engineering in action. Or sign up and try the demo for yourself.

Integrate with leading modeling tools

Model-Based Engineering can handle complex diagrams with thousands of elements and relationships by rendering diagrams directly from model definitions in Teamwork Cloud on the web and in MagicDraw on the desktop.

If you use other tooling programs for your systems engineering, talk to us about support for IBM Rhapsody, Open MBEE, or other model stores and data providers.

Innovative diagramming features

Add custom element coloring by stereotype or metaclass
Identify bus nodes quickly with special rendering in the diagram
Set node and port constraints to control port placement—left or right side, inside or outside the node, or rotated with the text
Group elements into a nested drawing structure to control the level of detail shown
Incrementally load related elements directly from the SysML model

Our customers

Tom Sawyer Software continues to add useful visualization and analysis capabilities to its MBSE plug-in. These enable modelers to focus on modeling, not chartsmithing, and help stakeholders obtain clear, powerful representations of model content.

Advancing the practice of digital engineering will increasingly depend upon intelligent use of automation, and Tom Sawyer Software’s engagement with the worldwide modeling community is helping facilitate that transformation.

Michael J. Vinarcik, ESEP-Acq, FESD, Adjunct Professor, University of Detroit Mercy

Know your audience

You understand your system design objectives. But often you need to clearly explain those objectives to different kinds of audiences.

With Model-Based Engineering, a single click transforms your diagram from a highly technical layout to an inviting iconic style.

Validate the consistency of your Internal Block model.

Validate your model

Use the generated drawings to validate the consistency of your model by ignoring drawing boundaries and finding hidden or missing connections and inconsistencies.

Control what's shown in your drawing

View exactly the elements you need through advanced filtering and selective hide and show features.

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Facilitating the future

In addition to being proud members of OMG, Tom Sawyer Software co-leads the visualization focus area of the OMG SysML 2.0 Working Group.

Plug-in

Add the Model-Based Engineering plug-in to MagicDraw or Cameo Systems Modeler and render diagrams directly from existing model definitions on your desktop.

Web Application

Access highly interactive and customizable Model-Based Engineering visualizations in the Teamwork Cloud environment where systems engineers can collaborate to analyze models.

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Custom

Use Perspectives to create your own, customized Model-Based Engineering visualization and analysis application with views and arrangements that perfectly fit your use case.

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