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Cradle from 3SL, the complete Model Based Systems Engineering Toolsuite, specialising in requirements management, requirements capture, model based systems engineering and for systems engineering software, support and consultancy, the logical choice: Cradle from 3SL.

Welcome to 3SL Requirements Management & SE tools

Overview:

Cradle comprises several interfaces or modules. These include:

Cradle Project Manager

Feel the confidence which comes from knowing that your projects are managed properly and the data is safe.

Screenshot of the Cradle Project Manager interface

Project Manager may be used as the entry point to Cradle tools and projects. Project Manager allows a project hierarchy to be defined for each Cradle system that has some or all of the projects defined in the project register of that system, grouped into any tree structure that is meaningful to end users. This is where you create, delete, start and stop Cradle projects.

 

Cradle Document Loader

Relish the simplicity of pointing Document Loader at your source documents and sit back and watch as it effortlessly reads your data into Cradle and have that data categorised, numbered as individual items of a user defined type and securely registered and positioned ready for full traceability.

Screenshot of the Cradle Document Loader interface

Document Loader is a Requirements Capture tool and forms part of the Cradle Toolsuite for Microsoft Office®. Document Loader offers a complete solution for capturing information held in Microsoft Word documents into your Cradle Project Database (PDB).

A typical source document may contain requirements, project-specific items or specifications grouped as paragraph hierarchies. Document Loader reads or parses each paragraph and creates a hierarchy of items in the database. Cross references are created between levels in this structure. Body text, figures and tables are captured into frames of these items.

 

Cradle WorkBench

You can enjoy the convenience of accessing all the information you need in one tool in one interface in one location. Be assured that this gives you maximum control over your project.

Screenshot of the Cradle WorkBench interface

WorkBench is suitable for a wide variety of types of user, and can be used for a wide variety of tasks within Requirements Management and Systems Engineering processes.

WorkBench is a customisable tool which can be used for both browsing and manipulating Cradle Databases. WorkBench is fully integrated with all desktop tools, including Word, to view any type of data in database items’ frames. Audio, video, figures, documents and tables embedded in database items can be accessed from WorkBench forms or table cells, launching applications as necessary.

WorkBench allows tailored views of the Cradle Database to be created for different groups of project engineers and external stakeholders. It is for groups who benefit from a tailored environment. It can provide a view of just what they want to see and how they want to see it.

WorkBench can become a portal into all project data, showing the project as one or more tables whose cells link to any type of data.

 

Cradle Spellchecker

Professional appearance in your data and the documents produced there from, unspoield by spelling errors*. The Spellchecker can be launched as a standalone application or can be started from WorkBench.

Screenshot of the Spellchecker interface

However started, Spellchecker checks the spelling of a collection of items. The items to be checked are those found by running a query, either the current query (when it is started from WorkBench) or a query chosen by the user (when started standalone). These items are shown in the Spellchecker UI, where you can select or de-select items to further refine which items are checked.

*unspoield is deliberate and proves the value of this tool.

 

Cradle Plug-ins

Cradle provides plug-in modules for Microsoft Word and Excel. These are loaded when Cradle is installed on PCs that have Word or Excel 2003, 2007 or XP already installed on them:

Cradle Capture Screenshot

The plug-ins provide facilities to capture data from documents and spreadsheets into items in the database. You can capture:
  • All selected paragraphs into a single item
  • Each selected paragraph into a separate item
  • Each table row into a separate item
  • Each spreadsheet row into a separate item

 

Cradle Web Access

You can enjoy the flexibility of being able to access and interact with your Cradle data from anywhere on earth via a secure web front-end.

Screenshot of a table view of items

Web Access (Cradle WEB-A module) allows users access to Cradle Databases by directing their web browsers to a Cradle Web Server (CWS). This allows the user to gain access from anywhere on the LAN, WAN or across the Internet. Such users do not need any Cradle software installed and there is no installation of a Cradle-specific web browser plug-in required.

The tool provided to web users is really the contents of web pages displayed in their browsers. These pages are created by the CWS from:

  • A set of HTML templates, at least one for each type of item in the database
  • A set of page designs supplied with the CWS
  • The items in your database

The CWS dynamically creates a web interface containing data drawn from the user’s project database. The web interface provides facilities that allow web users to interact with this database information, to query it, view or edit it, and navigate from it. Exactly what facilities are provided to the user are determined solely by the contents of the HTML templates used to define the form and content of this web interface.

The user has full control of the contents of these HTML templates, e.g.:

  • What the web interface looks like
  • What facilities it provides
  • How these facilities are accessed

Cradle Document Publisher

Cradle offers an approach to automated report writing and document generation, capturing data from the Cradle Systems Engineering technical database without the design and layout of cumbersome publication templates, graphical editors or the writing of complex scripting languages. This approach is called the Document Publisher.

Screenshot of the Cradle Document Publisher interface

The Cradle Document Publisher allows you to use Microsoft Word® to construct arbitrarily large and complex documents from datasets in a Cradle Project Database (PDB). Word documents or reports are user-defined through Word documents constructed with tags or bookmarks that are keyed to access database information and define the layout/format of the information in the output document. These documents are regular doc files but are referred to as templates.

Documents can contain embedded text, tables and diagrams. Cross referenced information at any level of complexity can be accessed and reported in the output document. Filtering of data is provided to access information relative to specific conditions when publishing and to control the level or type of data published.

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