Hello, so I am very new to Capella, but am very familiar with sysML and Cameo. Currently on a new team using Capella for MBSE on an existing product, so this is very much a ground-up approach. Using version 6.3.1, upgrading is not possible.
One of the very first things I’m looking at is appropriate guards and triggers for mode transitions of a software actor in a software subsystem. This is probably something sitting at the logical layer so I ended up starting there as a thought experiment for getting hands on in Capella. I have had no issues with the state machine diagram for a complex system. But I’ve been wanting to create logical functions that are triggers for some of these state transitions.
However, I can’t link logical functions as triggers at all, the only option in the triggers UI is to create a ChangeEvent or TimeEvent that gets listed under the “Data” folder.
Additionally, I can’t seem to add any type of function as an entry, do, or exit function, after spending a day on this, I found out I can only add interfaces or interface exchanges for these.
This all seems a bit odd to me as the IFE sample doesn’t seem to have these issues.
Follow up question later on would be how to create the equivalent of sysML activity diagrams and sequence diagrams to model transition and fault decision trees. However, this is definitely a later question.
Definitely different from sysML and some of the concepts with Capella are a bit…weird…to me. Cameo is definitely an steep learning curve as a tool and not for the faint of heart, but over there things seemed surprisingly more intuitive than some of the tools here and the user manual isn’t the most useful item on HOW to go about creating certain views/diagrams. Is there a decent source to reference for the Capella tool usage?