Installing Syside

Sensmetry Syside: Enabling Digital Twin

Sensmetry Syside is a comprehensive toolset designed to enable the creation, utilization, and automation of system-level digital twins across the full system lifecycle. 

Syside: 

• Provides a high-level Python API for unlimited automation and tool integration capabilities, eliminating the need for dedicated model servers. 

• Supports Git workflows straight out of the box, enhancing collaboration and traceability. 

• Eliminates vendor lock-in by using standard SysML v2 and plain text storage, ensuring complete data portability. 

• Sysand, the package manager for the SysML v2 & KerML ecosystem, is open-source and enables package-manager-based collaboration, similar to Software Engineering. 

• Syside's use of standard SysML v2 and plain text storage ensures complete data portability and eliminates vendor lock-in.

Syside Modeler Installation Instructions (Academic License)

1. Request an Academic License

• Navigate to: Syside Pricing

• Scroll down to Academia Licenses and click Request License.

• Complete the form using the following details:

  • Email: Use your @jh.edu or @jhu.edu address

  • Academic Institution: Johns Hopkins University WSE

  • Position: Graduate Student

  • Project Description: EN.645.662 course

• Check both required boxes:

  • Confirm your use is strictly for non-commercial academic research or educational activities

  • Confirm you have read, understood, and agree to comply with the Syside License Agreement

• Click Submit

Note: License keys are issued manually. Check your @jhu.edu inbox (and junk mail folder). Processing may take some time.

2. Install Visual Studio Code

• If you don’t already have Microsoft Visual Studio Code, download and install it for free:
  Download VS Code.

3. Install Syside Modeler + Automator

• Syside Modeler Installation Guide

• Syside Automator Installation Guide

4. Learn the Essentials

• • Once Syside Modeler & Automator are installed, review the Essentials section to learn visualization, navigation, and core modeling features, then continue the lessons from there.

  • Syside Modeler Essentials

5. Practice Exercises

• Complete the Advent of SysML V2 exercise:
  Advent of SysML V2

• Review the SysML V2 Crash Course slides (provided below).

6. SysML V2 Crash Course

• Graphical Notation Introduction (PDF):
  Intro to SysML v2 Language – Graphical Notation

• Textual Notation Introduction (PDF):
  Intro to SysML v2 Language – Textual Notation