Creating the Block Diagram Content

Defining the content of a software component includes the following steps:

1. Placing a Signature Element

2. Creating the necessary elements:

   • basic elements or enumerations
   • arrays or matrices
   • normal or fixed characteristic lines/maps
   • distributions and group characteristic lines/maps
   • messages
   • components as complex elements
3. creating operators, among them If statements, switch and the while loop
4. connecting diagram elements

5. editing the sequence calls

   You may also want to do the following:

6. add implementation casts to connections or operators
7. add a comment or a literal
8. use assert or conversion operators
9. move or copy items in the same diagram or between diagrams
10. rename or delete diagram items
11. search and delete unused elements
12. use graphical hierarchies and statement blocks