You can use the internal block diagram to specify how the
internal parts of a block are connected together in a specific context.
The ports, standard ports and SysML flowPorts, can be added to the
parts, and the connections between the parts and ports can be drawn
using connectors.
Procedure
- Right-click a block, and select . The product automatically
adds the owning block to the diagram.
- Enter the diagram name, and click OK.
- Click the Part button
, add
the part to the owning block on the diagram, and name it accordingly.
This addition creates an implicit part.
- Open the Features window for the part and change the Type of
the part from a implicit to a explicit value,
as SysML requires. Confirm this change when the warning message is
displayed.
- Change the Multiplicity of the part,
if it is required.
- Click OK twice to
save your changes and close the Features window.
- You can add more parts, and use connectors to link the
parts directly to other parts, or through ports to compatible ports
on other parts, or the owning block.
- To link standard ports, select the Connector button
,
click the standard port of the sending part, and then click the standard
port of the receiving part.
- To group parts or blocks together to form a single element
of the model, select the elements that you want to group, and click
the Package button
. Drop the package onto
the internal block diagram.