Review: MagicDraw - SysML & MBSE Support
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| Function: Draw SysML | |
| Function: Simulate / Execute SysML | |
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- Strictly enforces most of OMG SysML syntax and semantics (see CONS for exceptions)
- Enterprise edition bundles Cameo Simulation Toolkit (otherwise must buy separately)
- Supports plugins for integration with Requirements Management tools (e.g., DOORS, RequisitePro)
- Suffers from tool featuritis and UX is gratuitously complex (needs extreme makeover)
- Activity diagrams are awkward to nest
- Sequence diagrams do not properly support semantics of Interfaces and Signals
- Tool itself is relatively expensive, and cost of plugins (Simulation Toolkit, DataHub, DoDAF, etc.) is excessive. Simulation Tookit should be bundled, as it is with Cameo System Modeler.
- XMI interoperability does not work as advertised with competitive tools
- Recommended as a pragmatic SysML modeling tool that supports Agile MBSE and intermediate-level model simulations.
Review: MagicDraw - SysML & MBSE Support
- Product Name: MagicDraw w/ SysML Plugin
- Brand: DS CATIA / No Magic
- Description: SysML architecture modeling tool for MBSE applications. Optional Cameo Simulation Toolkit plugin supports behavioral and parametric simulations.
- Reviewer: Editor, SysMLforum.com
- Date: 06/15/2018
- Review Summary
MagicDraw is No Magic's flagship UML 2 architecture modeling tool which supports a plugin for the SysML dialect (profile) of UML 2. MagicDraw with its SysML plugin is a robust Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tool that strictly enforces most of OMG SysML's syntax and semantics, and offers support for basic requirements traceability, intermediate model-based simulation, and automated document generation. Plugins available include a Simulation Toolkit, a DataHub which integrates with selected Requirements Management tools (e.g., DOORS, RequisitePro), and enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., DoDAF 2, MODAF). Simulation Toolkit should be bundled with MagicDraw, as it is for Cameo Systems Modeler.
Shortcomings include, but are not limited to: unintuitive and gratuitously complex UX, Activity diagrams do not nest cleanly, Sequence diagrams do not properly support Interface and Signal semantics, and dysfunctional XMI interoperability.
Recommended as a pragmatic SysML modeling tool that supports Agile MBSE and intermediate model simulations.
- Editor Rating: 3.3 / 5 Stars
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