From concept to creation
We are pleased to announce that our June newsletter 2016 is available here:
https://www.threesl.com/pages/news/webletter-June16/index.php
which includes the announcement of Cradle-7.1.1 that integrates SysML into the systems lifecycle, invites you to visit us on stand B4 at INCOSE 2016, and discusses other topics of interest to all Cradle users.
We hope that you find it interesting and helpful!
We propose to start a series of regular, open, webinars in which 3SL staff will be available to answer your questions about 3SL and Cradle. The dates and times of the webinars will be listed in our website and anyone will be welcome to attend. They will be timed to allow as many people to connect as possible, wherever you may be based. The webinars will be in English.
The webinars will be one hour and can include any technical or commercial topics. We may propose some specific topic(s) for the webinar, but the emphasis will primarily be on an opportunity to get answers to your questions.
If you have any opinion on this proposal, please send an e-mail to: mark.walker@threesl.com
or send me a message through LinkedIn!
We are pleased to announce that we have released Cradle-7.1.1, an update to the Cradle-7.1 release that added SysML into the range of MBSE notations available in Cradle’s integrated modelling tools.
The Cradle-7.1.1 release changes the way that equipments and ports are drawn in Physical Architecture Diagrams, allowing public ports to be drawn more neatly and more densely inside equipment symbols. It also adds a new ability to run queries on items that are indirectly linked or not linked to other types of iterms, and a variety of other small updates.
Security Codes for Cradle-7.1 will also work with Cradle-7.1.1.
If you have a single-user Cradle-7.1 system, such as Cradle-SE Pro, then you can also upgrade to Cradle-7.1.1.
To get the new release, please go to:
and login and download the software from the Resources section of our website.
If you install Cradle-7.1.1 anywhere, please install it everywhere!
We hope that you will like this new release of Cradle!
Our 3SL colleagues in the US have posted a series of videos demonstrating the SysML support in Cradle-7.1. This is a single demonstration, split into a series of parts:
You can access these demonstration videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdnZeLWcaufRjC0MBX1iuuQ
Please look at these videos and see how SysML models can be built in Cradle and how these models can be integrated into other information, including requirements, tests, test cases, defects, issues and risks.
At 3SL we believe that MBSE is the ideal approach (whichever notations you choose to use) but only if it is integrated into all of the other information in your project.
MBSE in isolation is just a bunch of pretty pictures!
We are pleased to announce that we have a new partner in Australia – Agile Controls. The main point of contact is Simon Fearnley. Contact details are here:
https://www.threesl.com/contact/au.php
All of our existing customers in Australia will continue to deal directly with 3SL.
We welcome the opportunity to work with Agile Controls and to grow the use of Cradle in Australia!
If you find the defaults give you too many reviewers for your Configuration Management Process, then create a new custom Workflow in Cradle.
The number of reviewers, the steps on accept or reject, steps based on the owner can all be altered in the Project Schema. Each item type can have a different process flow or they can follow the built in defaults.
Hierarchy Diagrams (HIDs) are an excellent way to show the relationships between items in your database. The boxes in the diagrams are the items and their connecting lines are the cross references.
You can define a colour for each cross reference link type in the schema. If you do, then these colours are used to draw the cross references in HIDs.
This means that you can easily interpret the connections shown by the HID as, for example ‘has child’ or ‘is satisfied by’, or ‘allocated to’ relationships.
If you have not tried setting colours for your cross reference link types, please try it and see how this will transform the ease with which your HIDs can be interpreted!
A new update to 3SL website is available, includes updated, responsive, software downloads section here: https://www.threesl.com/downloads/software.php
Please visit and tell us what you think!
As you may know, there are many opportunities to extend Cradle’s functionality, including using external commands. These commands can be triggered from user-defined start pages, or the user-defined phase hierarchy, or when you work with attributes inside items.
Commands can be made variable using Command Directives. Some of these can access the username, password and project code of the current user.
For example, the Command Directive $LOGIN is replaced by the string -login user,pwd,pcode where username is the current user’s Cradle username, pwd is the current user’s plain text password and pcode is the project code of the database that the current user is logged-in to.
The Command Directives $CUSER, $PASS and $PROJC are available for each of these components.
Because of the sensitivity of this information, you can control whether or not these Command Directives are active.
You do this using the file:
eci_config
Whis is found in the admin directory of the Cradle installation on the server (so the eci_config file that may exist in Cradle client installations on end users’ computers is ignored).
You can enable / disable various ‘sensitive’ Command Directives by editing this file in the Cradle installation on your ‘Cradle server’.
Note that many of the sensitive Command Directives are enabled by default, but $LOGIN is one of those that is not enabled!
3SL will be attending the INCOSE International Symposium held in Edinburgh in the UK between 18th and 21st July 2016. Full details of the event can be found here: http://www.incose.org/symp2016/home/when-where If you are able to travel to Edinburgh, we will be delighted to meet you during the event at our stand B4.