System Design Module

In the context of this documentation “Valispace“ will be called “Requirements and Systems Portal“.

The second module is the System Design Module, which is below the Project Module on the left-hand bar. The System Design Module is the place where the user defines the System (or Product) Breakdown in terms of individual Blocks.

Blocks are elements of your final product (it can be a physical part such as a structure or a logical part such as orbit, operations, etc) that are represented with hierarchical relationships in a Block tree. The top Block is usually your product, for example, a car, satellite, or any other system. It can be further broken down into sub-Block assemblies representing the several physical, functional and logical constituents of the system.

The figure System Design Module Layout is an example of what the blocks tab looks like for a mature project.

The left side tab (1) shows the blocks, which are the system, subsystem, and its elements in a hierarchical manner, and the Properties section (2) shows the Valis (properties) related to the Block. You can click on the info section which shows the information related to the block. Users can add a description, image, tag, and part number and also assign an owner to the block (individual collaborators or groups). Note that if the block is a Connected Copy, that information will be displayed here.

The id is a unique numerical identifier assigned to every object of its type in the database.

Each Block further contains Valis, which are unique characteristics or properties. In the figure of Blocks with Valis, we observe that the battery pack block has Six Valis: cost, Mass, v_capacity, v_charge_time, v_voltage, and v_weight.

Next, we’ll learn how to create Blocks.