ParaMagic^® Plugin

ParaMagic^™ plugin makes MagicDraw SysML models come alive! Using the quantitative information and constraint relationships displayed in SysML parametric diagrams, plus legacy models in tools like MATLAB^® and Simulink^®, SysML model-builders can run simulations and trade studies from the earliest stages of system design. Links between SysML and Excel^® make it easy to import and export data, create reports and generate graphs and charts.

In traditional domains of system engineering like aerospace and transportation, users can explore system performance, check requirements, estimate cost and allocate resources. Developers leveraging MagicDraw's UPDM and business modeling capabilities can add parametric simulation using SysML submodels for defense planning, business process analysis and computational finance.

ParaMagic^® 16.6 Release – New Trade Studies Capability

ParaMagic^™ 16.6 continues the expansion of the power of SysML parametric simulation and integration with Microsoft Excel^®, MATLAB^®/Simulink^® (The MathWorks, Inc.) and Mathematica^® (Wolfram Research, Inc.). For the first time, users can easily setup and run trade studies on their existing SysML models. Trade studies on SysML parametric models allow users to compute performance, reliability, cost, and other measures-of-effectiveness for a large set of system alternatives at each development phase, and then select the best-in-class alternatives. The full power of Excel is available for plotting and post-processing trade study results.

Building parametric models for simulation and requirements checking is easier than ever, now that legacy models and data, created and validated with many man-years invested, can be exploited within a modern systems engineering framework.

ParaMagic and MATLAB

The ParaMagic-MATLAB connection wraps MATLAB script and function M-files as constraint blocks for use in ParaMagic's parametric solving process. This includes wrapping and executing Simulink models that are invoked using script M-files. Now ParaMagic can push values from the SysML model into an existing Simulink model at the correct stage in the parametric solving process, execute the Simulink model, and pull results back into the MagicDraw model.

ParaMagic and Excel

The ParaMagic-Excel connection enables users to read and write SysML instance slot values from MS Excel spreadsheets. Data from multiple workbooks and worksheets can be written in to a single SysML model before parametric calculations are executed and the parametric results can be written back to the spreadsheets. Engineers and analysts used to working on individual spreadsheets now have a collaborative tool to synchronize their efforts using the best model-based systems engineering practices.

ParaMagic and Mathematica

The ParaMagic-Mathematica connection, previously confined to basic mathematical expressions, has been expanded to open the full power of Mathematica functions. Users can create and wrap custom Mathematica functions (m-files) as constraints blocks in SysML parametric diagrams. A number of standard graphing and statistical functions are provided with ParaMagic, making line plots, bar charts and other graphical outputs as easy as dropping a constraint block into your SysML model.

System Requirements

ParaMagic 16.6 requires MagicDraw 16.6 (or later) with the SysML 16.6 plug-in (or later). It requires either Mathematica (versions 6.0 or 7.0) or MATLAB (version 2008a or later) or both.