MBSE Tool Reviews: MagicDraw
| CRITERIA | RATING |
| Usability | |
| Function: Draw SysML | |
| Function: Simulate / Execute SysML | |
| Team Model & Interop | |
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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 - MBSE & SysML Support
- Product Name: MagicDraw
- Brand: Sparx Systems Pty Ltd.
- Description: SysML enterprise architect modeling tool for MBSE applications.
- Reviewer: Editor, MBSEtoolreviews.com
- Date: 01/05/2023
- Review Summary:
This Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tool review features MagicDraw, No Magic's flagship UML modeling tool which supports a SysML plugin for MBSE applications. [Note that No Magic also produces Cameo Systems Modeler, a collaborative MBSE environment based on MagicDraw that includes the SysML plugin.] The review evaluates MagicDraw's MBSE and SysML capabilities using the following weighted evaluation criteria: Usability, Major Functions (Drawing, Simulation & Execution), Standards & Interoperability, Team Modeling & Tech Support, and Value.
MagicDraw is a robust choice as a MBSE tool that strictly enforces SysML well-formedness rules for syntax (notation) and semantics. MagicDraw offers proprietary and commercial plugins to integrate with Requirements Management tools (e.g., DOORS, PTC Integrity) and Simulation tools (MATLAB/Simulink, Mathematica).
Shortcomings include, but are not limited to: gratuitously complex UI, featuritis, Activity diagrams do not nest cleanly, and Sequence diagrams do not fully grok semantics of Interfaces and Signals.
MagicDraw is recommended as a pragmatic MBSE + SysML modeling tool that supports Agile MBSE methods and intermediate-level model simulations.
- Editor Rating: 3.6 / 5 Stars
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