3SL is pleased to announce the release of Cradle-7.3.2. This is available for download from the 3SL website. As you currently have an active Cradle maintenance agreement you can download this Cradle release free of charge.
Please note that even the website states Cradle-7.3 this IS the Cradle-7.3.2 software.
Cradle 7.3.2
To download the latest release please visit our website at www.threesl.com and login. Once you have logged in navigate to the Resources section to download this release.
Details of the fixes in this release are in the Cradle help.
Upgrading
If you upgrade to Cradle-7.3.2 anywhere, you must upgrade everywhere, the server and all clients. Visit the download area.
If you are upgrading from a version prior to Cradle-7.3 you will require a Security Code. Contact our Support Department to get your new Security Code.
How would we work without those ubiquitous columns and rows?
It may have started with Visicalc but these days it is hard to find an aspect of our organisational life that doesn’t have a spreadsheet in it. So during spreadsheet day 2017 try and think what it would be like adding up your budget by hand, working out hours worked per project, or even listing the office Christmas dinner totals.
Cradle supports a Microsoft Excel® capture utility directly bringing data in or CSV import from any spreadsheet’s saved output.
Capture
When the Office Toolsuite has been installed with Cradle you are able to capture information from Microsoft Excel® directly into Cradle. On the sheet of interest select the Cradle Toolbar and Login to Cradle. Then select Capture and in the resultant Data Capture dialog, assign the correct columns to the item attributes in the database. You can change the Options… to overwrite or merge the data and you can Validate the data before Capture. The resultant capture can be viewed in Cradle via Workbench or Web Access. You will of course need the privilege to ITEM_CREATE.
Excel® Capture Facility
Import CSV
To import items into Cradle you will additionally need the IMPORT privilege. This is similar to the Capture utility, but can be run with any CSV source. Selecting CSV as the import type and then assigning each of the columns to the attributes of the item, will allow the data to be imported into Cradle. More details about the CSV format can be found in the Cradle Help.
So why not celebrate everything columnar on spreadsheet day 2017 and capture some information into Cradle.
If you have a really old version of Cradle you may need to remove the old plug-ins
The second Tuesday of October (Ada Lovelace Day 2017) sees the celebration of women’s achievements in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths).
Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace is known for her work on Babbage’s Analytical Engine. By taking maths beyond calculations to create algorithms to run on general machines. To coin a phrase “One of the first computer programmers”
Ada is a structured high-level programming language designed in the late seventies and takes its name from the countess.
ASGs are used to provide a visual representation of the program units (packages, tasks and subprograms) in an Ada software system. You can draw these in Cradle, and of course link them to other Cradle components from requirements to tests.
Whatever you Carbohydrate Requirement – There’s a Noodle for You!
OnInternational Noodle Day 2017, we celebrate this humble food universally eaten worldwide. There, are of course, variants, rice, wheat, eggs in various proportions, wholemeal noodles with a higher fibre content and noodles made from courgettes for people who want the convenience of a noodle without the carbs.
Now trying to put a product slant on Noodle Day may appear tricky. We’ve opted for pointing out that Cradle comes in many variants too! From Single user Requirements Management to Multi User Enterprise Product Lifecycle design and control.
So whether today you choose to have them from a pot with boiling water as a lunch time snack or coated in sesame oil and chilli with chicken and shredded pak-choi for your evening meal. Enjoy a Noodle today! #InternationalNoodleDay
Different Views
Now whether you see a Noodle as a type of Pasta or Pasta as a type of Noodle is a topic for debate. World Pasta Day celebrates the multi variants of this card dish. These opinions can be seen as different viewpoints on the same data (the flour / egg / oil in the recipe). Unlike the traditional classic functional modelling, where the diagram is king, in SysML data is prime. SysML diagrams allow you to show different views on the same data, unlike classic models they don’t need to tell the whole story or balance in the same way. Different user groups may choose to focus on different aspects of the same project and have the same underlying stereotypes, but offer a different top level perspective in their diagram.
3SL are the Proud Suppliers of Cradle, and recognise the importance to good engineering. We also recognise that when students move into industry it is important that they have the skills necessary to make an impact and hit the ground running. This is why we are offering copies of our Requirements Management and Systems Engineering tool at a vastly reduced cost under a special academic discount.
System Design
We would like to give your students the ability to use industry leading MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) tools in Functional Analysis and Design such as Yourdon, or SysML (Systems Modelling Language). These link together with the requirements, constraints, risks and test-cases to produce a fully holistic design. This process is understood by engineers worldwide. Cradle is a fully tailorable cradle-to-grave design management tool.
Cradle Enterprise a Full Multi-user Multi-discipline Design Tool
Whilst you can purchase copies of Cradle that support many aspects of the engineering lifecycle for as little as £249 per seat, these are not multi user and have some restrictions. In order to collaborate and teach and make use of all the features users would generally install an Enterprise system. They would then licence each of the features they use for their business. Whilst these licences are fully floating, the users share some resources reducing their costs.
Massive Discount – Save Over £20,000
Discount
We would like to offer any academic department who wish to teach Requirements Management or Systems Engineering techniques to their students ten FREE sets of licences for EVERY module in Cradle. This discount for 10 academic licences gives you a product normally costing approximately £22,200 pounds* All we ask is you pay an annual maintenance cost of £1K.
Opportunities / Jobs with 3SL, producers of Cradle
As an SME 3SL are interested in multi-disciplined individuals to join our team. We value team players who are able to lend a hand to many areas of the business in addition to their core activity. As such, rather than provide a specific job role, we would like to outline the areas that are of most interest to us. For the right individual we will consider creating a suitable role. For more about the opportunities working with 3SL, visit threesl.com/opportunities
We are pleased to announce the release of Cradle-7.3.1, with some useful new features and some fixes. We’ll be sending announcement e-mails to all customers with active maintenance, and e-mails to the customers whose enhancements have been added, and whose reported bugs have been fixed.
Cradle 7.3.1
Some of the new features in this release are:
Excel Capture Utility, allow auto numbered items to be created when a column is mapped to the Identity attribute and the identity is blank.
Update Windows builds to support Microsoft .NET Framework v4.7.
Performance improvement in Doc Viewer control.
Web Access, for a parametric query using category picklists, display the picklist in the parametric UI.
Allow multi-value view cell containing ID, Key etc., to trigger heading behaviour in Document View
Improve Schema Report – Coloursets.
Upgrading
If you upgrade to Cradle-7.3.1 anywhere, you must upgrade everywhere, the server and all clients. Visit the download area.
If you are upgrading from a version prior to Cradle-7.3 you will require a Security Code. Contact our Support Department to get your new Security Code.
One of the most popular vacations is the package holiday. A Package Diagram is a popular SysML grouping of system components. It shows components and sub systems in a hierarchical manner. In the same way as our Package Holiday would contain flights, accommodation and possible a day out or two. Your system may comprise of housings, machinery and software or packages. It may contain, tablets and microbial formula or road networks, service stations and petrol pumps.
Package Diagram
Whatever your system and subsystems or comprise, breaking down the model into its components makes managing development and change easier. The Package diagram in SysML does not have to show all components, but it can usefully draw to mind those that are dependent or interrelated in some way.
Go on Holiday, be a Tourist!
If your business is well organised and you have confidence in your systems, enjoying a break should not be a worry. Feel free on World Tourism Day, which promotes sustainable holidaying, to plan your next vacation, or purchase a package from 3SL.
“So me Lads and Lasses, what brings you to 3SL’s shores today?”
“You say your project’s all headed to Davy Jones’s locker?” “What do you say you’ve been using to organise it?”
Pirate
“Parchment and a pen ye say? Well no surprise it’s not shipshape”
“A landlubber salesman wanted how much silver to give you tools for the job?” “Shiver me timbers, that’d be a right hornswaggle of a deal. Let me at him and I’ll have the scallywag keelhauled” “He’s trying to make you into shark bait, he’ll give pirates a bad name”
“Trust an old seadog like me, more of a privateer you see. Here to keep the pirate salesmen at bay. If you cross me palm with a mere four hundred coins I’ll have ye a top of the range tool for the job. What more could ye want?”
Cradle SE Pro
You’ don’t need to talk like a pirate to speak with 3SL, and we certainly won’t be giving you a bad deal. With Single user products in the £249 to £399(Sept 2017 prices) and competitive Enterprise products, there’s always a Cradle to suit your loot.
