Using Enumeration in SysMLv1

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Tutorial
TRAIL: Webel's ultimate guide to Systems Modeling Language (v1) with MagicDraw/Cameo
Section
08:02: The SysML ValueType, Unit, and using values
Topic level
AUXILIARY
UML keywords
Enumeration
EnumerationLiteral
DataType
SysML keywords
ValueType
SysML Enumeration
Slide kind
SysML Block Definition Diagram (BDD)
A SysML Enumeration is a UML Enumeration with ValueType applied (so properties typed by it will list as value properties in the 'values' compartment on a Block)
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The tool helps you out:
MagicDraw/Cameo: In a BDD the diagram sidebar menu item for Enumeration is a UML Enumeration with ValueType applied (so properties typed by it will list as value properties in the 'values' compartment on a Block).
A minor tool issue:
MagicDraw/Cameo: The display option 'Show Value Type Units' does not seem to work on the Slots of an InstanceSpecification in a BDD

Note how some of the values in the Slots of the instance grumpy red giant have been changed from the defaults defined in block ColorfulMoodyGiant.

UML-2.5.1 (and SysMLv1.7) supports use of Generalization with Enumerations:

UML-2.5.1: 'As a specialization of Classifier, Enumerations can participate in generalization relationships. An Enumeration that specializes another may define new EnumerationLiterals that are not defined in the generalizing Enumeration; in such a case the set of applicable literals comprises inherited literals plus locally-defined ones.'

However, there seems to be a minor issue when using Generalization with Enumerations in Magic Model Analyst® (Cameo Simulation Toolkit®), even though it validates:

SysMLv1.7/fUMLv1.4: Cameo Simulation Toolkit v2024x: Using an extending Enumeration literal as a parameter argument value runs but a WARN is issued.
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Table 8-1 - Graphical nodes defined in Block Definition diagrams - ValueType - MagicDraw SysML 19SP3
Notes
[TIP] A SysML Enumeration is a UML Enumeration with ValueType applied (so properties typed by it will list as value properties in the 'values' compartment on a Block)
[FEATURE, TIP, TOOL] MagicDraw/Cameo: In a BDD the diagram sidebar menu item for Enumeration is a UML Enumeration with ValueType applied (so properties typed by it will list as value properties in the 'values' compartment on a Block).
[DISPLAY, ISSUE, TOOL] MagicDraw/Cameo: The display option 'Show Value Type Units' does not seem to work on the Slots of an InstanceSpecification in a BDD
Snippets (quotes/extracts)
  [UML-2.5.1] As a specialization of Classifier, Enumerations can participate in generalization relationships.
  [UML-2.5.1] An Enumeration that specializes another may define new EnumerationLiterals that are not defined in the generalizing Enumeration; in such a case the set of applicable literals comprises inherited literals plus locally-defined ones.
  [fUML-1.4] 8.6.2.4 EnumerationValue: An enumeration value is a value whose (single) type is an enumeration. Its literal must be an owned literal of its type.
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Visit also (backlinks)
SysMLv1.7/fUMLv1.4: Cameo Simulation Toolkit v2024x: Using an extending Enumeration literal as a parameter argument value runs but a WARN is issued.
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