I have just returned from the very first edition of OCX , “Open Community Experience 2024”, which was held in Mainz, Germany. Let me share this experience with you! From the moment I arrived, I was struck by the vibrant atmosphere. After nearly 15 years of EclipseCon Europe in Ludwigsburg, this change of scenery was most welcome. Mainz, with its charm and energy, breathed new life into the event. ...

This summer was anything but relaxing for our SysON team, as we worked tirelessly to deliver a great web-based open-source graphical modeling environment for SysML V2. The 2024.5, 2024.7 and 2024.9 releases represent a major leap forward in both functionality and stability, ensuring SysON continues to meet the evolving needs of our users.   2024.5 The 2024.5.0 release laid the groundwork for these...

A new maintenance revision of Sirius Desktop (version 7.4.3 ), has been released recently. It’s the opportunity for me to recap the new features and improvements we have brought to Sirius Desktop since version 7.1.   Advanced Color Setting Since : 7.4.0 A new color selection popup dialog has been defined to choose the color(label, fill and line) to use for the selected element. This popup dialog i...

Introducing Our Latest Innovations in Modeling: Eclipse Sirius & SysON. This week, I presented at the Models 2024 conference in Linz (Austria) as part of the Industry Day, where I introduced two of our Open-Source initiatives: Sirius Web , part of the Eclipse Sirius project, and Eclipse SysON , a SysMLv2 modeling tool built on Sirius. During the session, I outlined several important aspects of...

We are excited to announce the release of Sirius Web 2024.9, bringing several new features and improvements to enhance the user experience. Below are the key updates included in this release, you can find the complete list of bug fixes and improvements in the changelog on Github . Laying the foundation of Tree Representation A major focus for this release is the introduction of the Tree Representa...

The Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative (SIRI) is a student collective from the University of Sydney, building the next generation of lunar and mars rover. To design their rover prototype while learning model-based systems engineering, the students are using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) through the open-source Capella tool  and the Arcadia method. Currently consisting of 75 members, w...

As you might be enjoying your summer and browsing around here, let me show you a little prototype I’ve been developing on and off through several versions of Sirius Web. It’s now based on the latest Sirius Web release. Kudos to the Sirius team for releasing every 8 weeks like clockwork! The idea was inspired by Guesstimate : "A spreadsheet for things that aren’t certain!" It’s a tool I’ve always l...