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Noteworthy news articles about Structured Software Systems Limited (3SL) , Cradle, or related customer / industry stories.

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Cradle-7.1 Beta Period Has Ended

It is time to announce the end of the Beta test period for Cradle-7.1, our release that introduces SysML into the set of notations that are supported by Cradle’s modelling tools.

We would like to express our thanks to all of the people who provided their time to study Cradle-7.1, and we would also like to thank their organisations for agreeing to this use of their time.

We have received much valuable feedback from the Beta testing and we have included as much of this feedback as possible into the Cradle-7.1 release.

We expect to make an announcement about the release of Cradle-7.1 very soon!

As has been the case with all previous releases of Cradle:

– Security Codes for previous versions of Cradle will not work with Cradle-7.1
– New Security Codes for Cradle-7.1 will be provided, on request, to anyone who has an active maintenance agreement with 3SL

Once again, to all Beta testers, thank you very much!

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Cradle-7.1 Beta Test Progressing Well

The Beta testing of Cradle-7.1 has been underway for a little while.

The testing is going very well, with useful feedback from the Beta testers about the new SysML capability and the other enhancements in this latest Cradle release.

We expect to make an announcement about Cradle-7.1 at the end of this month.

We would like to express our thanks to those who have been able to get involved, your help is very much appreciated!

With best regards

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February 2016 Newsletter is Available!

We are pleased to advise that the February 2016 newsletter is now available. You can view it here:

https://www.threesl.com/pages/news/webletter-February16/index.php

We have sent several thousand e-mails announcing this newsletter. If you did not receive one, and would like to be added to our distribution list, please send your e-mail address to me at: mark.walker@threesl.com

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Force Directed Graphs

We are curious to know what people think of using force directed graphs as a way to display the relationships between items in Hierarchy Diagrams (HIDs).

At the moment, HIDs are drawn using a fixed algorithm, in which you can control:

  • The orientation (vertical or horizontal)
  • If the HID will pivot (change orientation) and if so, the level at which it pivots.

Force directed graphs are an alternative way to arrange the same boxes (items) and lines (cross references) in a HID.

What do you think?

ARTICLE UPDATED 13/09/2018 – CHANGED CATEGORY AND FIXED READABILTY
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3SL Presenting at SEDC 2016

We are pleased to announce that we will be presenting a paper at the forthcoming SEDC 2016 conference, either:

– “Executives Will Want to use MBSE”, or
– “Learn a Simple MBSE Process by Connecting the Dots Using SysML Tutorial”

Details of the SEDC conference can be found here:

http://www.sedcconference.org/

We look forward to meeting you there!

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January Newsletter is Available!

We are pleased to announce that our January newsletter is now available at:

https://www.threesl.com/pages/news/webletter-January16/index.php

You may have already received an e-mail about the new newsletter, we sent several thousand e-mails about it.

If you did not receive an e-mail from us, please contact me at: mark.walker@threesl.com and I will add you to our e-mail distribution list!

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Which Anti-Virus Software Do You Use?

Viruses

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Anti Virus

As we all know viruses are a sad reality of today’s world. Just like their biological cousins they cause havoc as they move and infect their hosts.

The never ending war against them is fought by many corporations with their anti-virus software. We should all try and ensure our machines are inoculated with the latest databases. We ourselves protect all our machines, and monitor the content of incoming emails (see Related Articles)

False Positives

While most businesses agree a false positive is better than a missed virus, it can cause significant impact for the customer and the vendor.

We have noticed some issue with another false positive from anti-virus software from Symantec. We therefore try to pre-register all of the Cradle executables with anti-virus (AV) software providers. This will ensure that you have no problems installing the Cradle suite.

Registration Mitigation and Issue Notification

We currently white-list register with AVG†, McAfee†, Kaspersky† and Avast† and notify Symantec† of any problems.
This should lead to trouble free installation for all our customers.

†No endorsement or guarantee is implied or given by these third party vendors.

Problems

It would assist 3SL if you have any flavour of AV software that incorrectly highlights Cradle components as problematic.

support@threesl.com

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Another Anti-Virus False Positive – Symantec – Norton 360

I am sorry to say that we have been advised that Symantec’s Norton 360 product is, once again, reporting false positive errors against the Cradle Database Server (crsvr.exe), Project Manager (prjman.exe), Cradle Services Manager (csm_service.exe) and the ping_cds.exe test and debug utility in Cradle-7.0.6 – and possibly other versions.

This applies to Norton 360 version v21.7.0.11.

We will report it to Symantec and, once again, urge them to correct their database.

I know that this is not the first time that Symantec have reported false positives against Cradle executables, and it is also not the first time that some of the executables listed above have been reported.

I will update this discussion as soon as we have more information.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by these Symantec errors.