Is SysML too abstract?
One popular complain about SysML is that the model does not look like the thing you are building (designing). But it is not a fatality! Indeed, Ahsan Qamar has reviewed literature and demonstrated how to keep synchronized SysML with CAD, electrical,… models in his licentiate thesis.
Moreover the SysML specification 1.2 on section 8.3.1.1 (page 36) say:
SysML allows blocks to have multiple compartments, each optionally identified with its own compartment name. [...]. Some standard compartments are defined by SysML itself, and others can be defined by the user using tool-specific facilities
Thus a tool could display a compartment showing (externally synchronized) visual design as in the following diagram. Maybe we could differentiate between a sketch that would be drawn in the concept compartment, and the real design that would be drawn in the preview compartment. The former would be replaced by the second on project progress.
Please do comment this idea in the discussion area bellow.
PS: contact me to work towards making it real.
SysML preview/concept compartment proposal
