SysMLv1: MagicDraw/Cameo: GOTCHA: If you DRAG a Signal onto a Block symbol it will create a Reception. One way to create a Property typed by a Signal is to use a composite Association. Or just create an untyped Property then type it by the Signal.
fUML-1.4: 7.6.2.1: Reception: [1] fuml_reception_no_method: A reception must not have an associated method.self.method->isEmpty() Source Action Language for Foundational UML 1.1
REFERENCE CARD: Property cheat-sheet for Block Gallery Tutorial TRAIL: Webel's ultimate guide to Systems Modeling Language (v1) with MagicDraw/Cameo Section 08:01: The building Blocks of SysML Slide kind SysML Block Definition Diagram (BDD)
Behavior StateMachines can be used to specify any of the following Gallery Tutorial TRAIL: Webel's ultimate guide to Systems Modeling Language (v1) with MagicDraw/Cameo Section 01:03: UML Behavior: StateMachines quick start Slide kind UML Class Diagram
Class compartments Gallery Tutorial TRAIL: Webel's ultimate guide to Systems Modeling Language (v1) with MagicDraw/Cameo Section 01:02: UML 101 for model-based systems engineering with SysML Slide kind UML Class Diagram
REFERENCE CARD: Types of Block Properties and Block compartments Gallery Tutorial TRAIL: Webel's ultimate guide to Systems Modeling Language (v1) with MagicDraw/Cameo Section 08:01: The building Blocks of SysML Slide kind SysML Block Definition Diagram (BDD)
A compartment with the label “receptions” may appear as part of a block definition to show signal receptions. The “«signal»” keyword is optional in this compartment. Source OMG Systems Modeling Language (SysML) 1.6
MagicDraw/Cameo v19SP3: uses the Block compartment name 'signal receptions' instead of just 'receptions'. [CLAIMED FIXED in v2021x]
ExampleBlock in a Block Definition Diagram (BDD) Gallery Tutorial TRAIL: Webel's ultimate guide to Systems Modeling Language (v1) with MagicDraw/Cameo Section 08:01: The building Blocks of SysML Slide kind SysML Block Definition Diagram (BDD)
A Class has four mandatory compartments: attributes, operations, receptions ... and internal structure ... A Class may also have optional compartments as described for Classifiers in general Source Unified Modeling Language 2.5.1
For example, a block might provide particular services to other blocks as operations, or have a particular geometry accessible to other block, or it might require services and geometries of other blocks. Source OMG Systems Modeling Language (SysML) 1.6
Required and provided features are operations, receptions, and non-flow properties that a block supports for other blocks to use, or requires other blocks to support for its own use, or both. Source OMG Systems Modeling Language (SysML) 1.6
Provided behavioral features are invoked with the owning block as target, while required behavioral features are invoked with an external block as target (required). Source OMG Systems Modeling Language (SysML) 1.6
Using non-flow properties means to read or write them, and using behavioral features means to invoke them. Source OMG Systems Modeling Language (SysML) 1.6
MagicDraw/Cameo 19SP3: Does not yet handle Feature-wise validation of provided/required DirectedFeature contracts (it only handles them at the level of entire Block types). Webel asserts the spec is inconsistent w.r.t. ProxyPort connection compatibility.
SysMLv1.6 Provided/required DirectedFeature contracts for ProxyPorts SHOULD be satisfiable Feature-wise (including as subsets of Features) not necessarily just at the level of entire Blocks (types)! [See also the SysMLv1.7 spec changes.] ARCHIVAL (2022): This content is now considered historical only!
Cameo Simulation Toolkit DOES NOT leverage a Reception on a Class/Block at all! Use an AcceptEventAction with a SignalEvent trigger or an 'effect' on a Transition instead. There is a formal fUML restriction that a Reception should not have a method.
Receptions are shown in the receptions compartment using the same notation as for Operations with the keyword «signal». Source Unified Modeling Language 2.5.1
