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Magic Systems of Systems Architect

Released on: June 4, 2021



UAF Features

2021x Refresh1 Version News#SysML Features

2021x Refresh1 Version News#Client-side Performance Improvements

2021x Refresh1 Version News#TWC-related Performance Improvements

2021x Refresh1 Version News#System Requirements

2021x Refresh1 Version News#Discontinued Products

2021x Refresh1 Version News#Modeling and Infrastructure

2021x Refresh1 Version News#Collaboration

2021x Refresh1 Version News#Other Features

Simulation

Performance Improvements in UAF

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SysML Features

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Client-side Performance Improvements



TWC-related Performance Improvements

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System Requirements

RAM and disk space requirements have been updated taking into consideration different sizes of large models. Learn more about recommended system requirements >>

Project Elements Count
(including used projects)

Allocated Memory2

Disk Space
Earlier versions2021x and later1
1.5 million1 million6GB6GB
2.5 million2 million7GB10GB
5 million3.5 million11GB30GB
1 the project elements count is different due to the profiling data storing metamodel optimized in 2021x. 
  2 these memory requirements are indicative and may vary by project specifics.

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Modeling and Infrastructure

Layers Based on Legends

Diagrams can get extremely crowded as a model evolves. For example, when highlighting a chosen piece of information, only one specific aspect of the system becomes a challenge. For your convenience, you can now filter diagrams by the selected Legend items to make only the necessary diagram layers stand out.

Filtering the diagram by the selected Legend item.

Learn more about layers based on Legends >>

Intelligent Legend Creation

Do you feel that Legend creation is a tiresome activity? Not at all! From now on, you can create Legends more easily than ever before: extract them automatically from the elements displayed on your diagram instead of relying on a manual creation. Additionally, you can now automatically extract Legend items for the existing Legends. Once the Legend items are created, you can customize their adornments representation. They can now be displayed as rectangular shapes or extended lines to represent paths and shapes in greater detail.

Extracting the Port Types legend according to the elements displayed on the diagram as symbols. 

Learn more about extracting Legends >>

Presentation Mode

You can now present diagrams in full screen without showing user interface components, such as a model browser, diagram palette, status bar, and toolbars. That is not all! You can also define the sequence of diagrams to present one after another.  

Diagram in the enabled Presentation Mode.

Learn more about Presentation Mode >>

Renewed Excel/CSV File Import

You can import data from an Excel/CSV file directly to the model without installing Excel and CSV Import Plugins (read more about discontinued products). From now on, the newly created Excel/CSV Import dialog brings an easy to use and clearly understandable graphical user interface. It allows you to import content with just a few clicks by selecting the Excel/CSV file and specifying element mapping options. Additionally, you can save your maps to reuse them, collect saved maps in groups, manage those groups, and use an entire group instead of a single map for data import. 

The Excel/CSV Import dialog with specified options for satisfy relationship import.

Learn more about Excel/CSV file import >>

Extended Excel and CSV Sync

Three improvements expanded the data synchronization between Excel or CSV files and a model:

  • Unique elements. Elements to be synchronized can now be identified not only by their name, but also by element property or tag value.
  • Direct relationships. From now on, you can import direct relationships between the source and target elements as easily as other elements.
  • Relationship ends. When importing relationships between different elements, you can select a specific property or tag to identify the source and target end of the relationship.

New mapping options in the Excel/CSV Sync Options dialog: Identification Property, Identify Relationship (end) Source by, Identify Relationship (end) Target by.

Learn more about Excel/CSV Sync in tables >>

Composition and Aggregation Relationships in Dependency Matrix

You can now define relationships between the elements in your model more accurately! The latest release gives you the ability to create and display Composition and Aggregation relationships in a Dependency Matrix.

Creating and displaying Composition, Aggregation, and Association in a Dependency Matrix.

Learn more about Composition and Aggregation creation >>

Other Improvements

  • Applying Legend items to the same element is more convenient since they are now grouped by Legend.

  • A reference from the image shape to the attached image is now created when attached images are displayed as diagram shapes.

  • The Diagram Tabs Limit is set to 20 to prevent high memory utilization. You can change this environment option at any time. 

  • The smart autocompletion command Ctrl + Space now works for the Change Event expression in a State Machine diagram.

  • In the Select Element and Quick Find dialogs, elements can now be filtered by their types to narrow down search results. 

  • The Jython 2.7.2 version is now supported.
  • The MARTE Profile version 1.2 is now supported. 
  • The Reader Edition is now available for all the 2021x version modeling tools. Contact your sales executive to request the license.

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Discontinued Products

  • The development of the following plugins is discontinued:

    • Document Modeling Plugin (Model-based reports). For more effective model publishing and reviewing on the web, use Cameo Collaborator.
      • To create Views and Viewpoints diagrams using the modeling tool with no plugins installed, use the Cameo Collaborator Publisher plugin or  the SysML plugin instead. 
      • The DockBook Library Profile is no longer available. 
    • Methodology Wizard Plugin.
    • QVT Plugin.
    • Excel Import Plugin. We highly recommend using Excel/CSV Sync or Excel/CSV Import features instead.
    • CSV Import Plugin. We highly recommend using Excel/CSV Sync or Excel/CSV Import features instead.
    • LieberLieber Embedded Engineer plugin.
    • Project Element Counter plugin.
    • MBSE plugin.
  • Web portal reports are no longer available. For more effective model publishing and reviewing on the web, use Cameo Collaborator. You can also use Web Publisher (Simple HTML) or Web Publisher 2.0 ReportWizard templates to generate HTML reports.
  • WSDL Code Engineering and WSDL diagrams are no longer available.
  • C# Code Engineering and C# Professional Edition are no longer available.
  • CIL and CIL Disassembler Code Engineering are no longer available.

  • The News Reader (RSS) is no longer available. The notification at the right bottom corner of the modeling tool will inform you about the new version release instead.

  • The no_install_mac.zip and 32-bit installation files are no longer offered for download.
  • The Project Usage Map Profile is no longer available. 
  • The JavaScript Nashorn is deprecated with the intention of removing it. We highly recommend using JavaScript Rhino instead.  
  • The following 3rd party plugins are discontinued:
    • Cameo Workbench
    • Cameo Inter-Op
    • ParaMagic Lite
  • The following no cost plugins are no longer available in modeling tools:

From Teamwork Server to Teamwork Cloud

Teamwork Server is no longer supported in the latest release. Teamwork Cloud should be used as a product for collaborative modeling and model version control. Customers still using Teamwork Server must migrate their server projects to TWC 19.0 series first and then upgrade to TWC 2021x.

Learn how to migrate from Teamwork Server to Teamwork Cloud >>

From Cameo Collaborator for Alfresco to Cameo Collaborator for Teamwork Cloud

From version 2021x, Cameo Collaborator for Alfresco is no longer supported. We recommend using Cameo Collaborator for Teamwork Cloud instead.

Learn the benefits of Cameo Collaborator for Teamwork Cloud compared to Cameo Collaborator for Alfresco >>

Learn how to migrate your documents and comments from the Alfresco server to Teamwork Cloud >>


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Collaboration

Detecting Changes in Diagrams During Merge

You can now specify in the Environment Options dialog whether to compare only the direct or all the changes in diagrams during the Project Merge and Project Comparison operations. By default, only the changes made by the user in loaded (open) diagrams are analyzed, leaving out unintentional diagram changes that occurred due to indirect changes in the model. This feature not only eases both merge and project comparison processes for the user, since the number of diagrams with changes is considerably reduced but also optimizes modeling tool performance. 

An Environment option to specify the changes to detect in diagrams.

Learn more about diagram changes in model merge and project comparison >>

Further Merge Usability Improvements

The model merge has undergone further usability improvements. From now on, changes from the Target and Equivalent Changes are automatically hidden by default; only the Source changes are shown. As a result, fewer changes need to be reviewed by the user.

Additionally, the model merge has been extended by adding a capability to select which ancestor calculation algorithm to use. You now have the freedom to choose a Branch Point as an ancestor for your merges. This is especially useful when merge results become too complex to understand and analyze due to previously rejected changes. By default, the Lowest Common Parent ancestor calculation algorithm is used.

Selecting the ancestor for future merges in the Merge Project dialog.

Learn more about merge types in Teamwork Cloud >>


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Other Features

Report Wizard

  • With a significant improvement in report generations for large-scale MagicDraw projects, Report Wizard 2021x has now been equipped to more efficiently generate reports using Web Publisher 2.0 templates of projects, with less time required and supporting more elements than earlier versions of the product.

    A bar chart displaying the performance testing of report generation from Report Wizard 19.0 SP4 and 2021x using Web Publisher 2.0.
  • You can view the overall progress of generating reports deploying Web Publisher 2.0 through the progress bar and its displayed success percentage.

    The progress bar with the success percentage shown above when generating reports using Web Publisher 2.0.

  • A more effective tool of the Document Report Designer diagram is now available for conveniently drafting and designing new extensive templates of the Microsoft Word Document (DOCX) format. Discover more about Document Report Designer >>

    Document Report Designer for drafting and designing new templates of the Microsoft Word Document (DOCX) format.
  • With the Spreadsheet Report Designer provided in Report Wizard 2021x, you are now capable of effectively designing and generating Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet (XLSX) format. Find out how to use Spreadsheet Report Designer >> 

    Spreadsheet Report Designer for designing and generating the Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet (XLSX) format.

  • Web Publisher 2.0 now has the Quick properties panel, at the lower left (similar to MagicDraw), to show the documentation settings in the Documentation tab and properties in the Properties tab of elements selected in the diagram and from the Containment tree. Learn more about the new Quick properties panel >>

    The Quick properties panel: Documentation and Properties tabs.

  • The capability of $report.isEmpty(obj) has been specially improved to check HTML String whether it is empty or not. Learn more about using this report tool >>

  • The multi-field sorter is now available as a function for sorting a collection of elements in ascending or descending order by deploying multiple sorting properties, rather than merely a single property as in previous versions. Find out more about the multi-field sorter >>

  • You can now sort elements by using a tag in applied stereotypes, regardless of being customized. Learn more about this capability of the sorter tool >>

  • You can utilize a new sorter function for sorting elements as they appear in the Containment tree. Discover how to use this sorter tool >>

  • With a new option reducing XML meta-data file name length, the error of Web Publisher 2.0 files with lengthy names has been fixed. Know more about this report variable in Web Publisher 2.0 >>
  • Single or double quotes can now be interchangeably used in both of the #includesection and #sectionBegin directives and $import.includeSection(templateName, sectionName) of the Import Tool.
  • You can now access and list property objects (including DSL) classified in the PropertyGroup of customized stereotypes. See how the report tool works this way >>
  • Reference bookmarks and their links can be created for DOCX numbered items. Learn about using these bookmark tools >>
  • Functions for displaying lists of properties in property groups for given elements and stereotypes are ready to use. Learn how to use this group of report tools >>

Other

  • The automatic UAF, SysML, and BPMN project migration has been enhanced. The projects are migrated silently and now no additional confirmation is required.

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