Overview of model diagramming

Active Workspace allows users to capture requirement specifications and models as hierarchies of requirements, paragraphs, function blocks, logical diagrams, and system blocks. In Active Workspace, you can navigate and build these hierarchies using model diagrams.

Model diagrams are interactive representations that use a number of visual indicators that allow you to expand and collapse the hierarchy to navigate up, down, and throughout its various branches.

For example, you want to view the requirements for a component you are redesigning, so you can make requirement-constrained design decisions. You search for the component and view it in a model. You see indicators for related functions and click the indicators to expand the functions. You also see indicators for related requirements, and you click those indicators to expand the requirements.

Working with a model diagram, you can:

• View and navigate through representations of related data, including the hierarchies of requirements, and functional, system, and physical (part/design) models in a working context.
• View relation types between elements, including parents, children, connections, and trace links.
• Add and remove elements from structures.
• Copy and paste elements within a structure and between structures in a working context and in other working contexts.
• Add trace links and connections between blocks in a model.
• Open requirements from within a model.
• Modify the properties of elements from within a model.
• Access standard features such as context, access control, checkin and checkout, change management, workflows, variants, and effectivity.