Interactive SysML Diagrams using a Web Browser

Abstract: Managing and maintaining a system requires knowledge of its structure, along with the relations and interactions between its components. Systems Model- ing Language, SysML, is a language used to describe systems and enables the practice of Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE). Having a model of a system is one key to understand the system and useful for future management and maintenance. Apart from being an advanced language, the tools that support SysML are often both advanced and expensive. This work was commissioned to create a different tool, a tool that is free, web-based, and interactive. The tool not only allows the user to look at the system but also explore the system’s design and the interesting parts of its internal structure. The tool uses a textual input to generate interactive diagrams with the possibility to filter out redundant information. Since it is available in a web browser, one can share their textual input instead of sharing pictures of diagrams. The textual input makes it possible to share a system structure in a new way, as well as to make the system model easier to maintain.