Using the Asset Diagram in Innoslate®
This document discusses how to use Innoslate’s Asset Diagram, which is also known as a physical block diagram.
Contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................2
Adding an Asset ..........................................................................................................................................................2
Adding a New Asset ................................................................................................................................................2
Adding an Existing Asset .........................................................................................................................................2
Removing an Asset .....................................................................................................................................................3
Replacing an Asset Block with a Picture .....................................................................................................................3
Adding a Conduit (Connection line between Assets) .................................................................................................3
Adding a New Conduit ............................................................................................................................................3
Setting Conduit Direction .......................................................................................................................................3
Styling a Conduit .....................................................................................................................................................3
Removing a Conduit ...................................................................................................................................................4
Decomposing an Asset ...............................................................................................................................................4
Model Representation................................................................................................................................................4
Using the Asset Diagram in Innoslate 1
Introduction
The asset diagram is designed for representing the physical model of a system in a block style format. The
diagram conforms to the LML Specification 1.0 standard and displays connections (Conduits) between physical
entities of a system (Assets). To create a new asset diagram:
1. From any view of Innoslate, click the “Dashboard” button in the top navigation bar.
2. Select the category “Physical Modeling” in the Getting Started Panel of your project’s dashboard.
3. Click the “Create New Asset Diagram (Physical)” link.
Adding an Asset
An Asset entity is used to represent a physical object. Innoslate includes labels to type the Asset as a Personnel,
System, Subsystem, Service, Facility, and/or custom label added in the Schema Editor.
Adding a New Asset
Drag the Asset icon from the left sidebar to the diagram canvas to position the Asset where desired. Once
dropped the sidebar for the Asset will appear. The name field is auto-focused for convenience.
Adding an Existing Asset
As a model based tool Innoslate supports entity reuse. To use an
existing Asset already defined from a different diagram or through
database view click the existing tab. Click the search field to search
for the desired asset. Once found drag the assets name to the
diagram canvas.
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Removing an Asset
To remove an Asset from the diagram simply click the Remove button on the toolbar. To remove an Asset from
the database and the diagram click the arrow and select remove from database.
Replacing an Asset Block with a Picture
A picture can be used to visually depict an Asset instead of
the default block shape. To insert a picture:
1. Select the Asset.
2. Click the Metadata tab.
3. Click the change button or drag a picture
from another program (ex. Windows
Explorer) to the Asset icon.
4. The picture will be converted and the shape
will automatically change to the picture
uploaded.
Adding a Conduit (Connection line between Assets)
A conduit is used to represent the physical connection between Assets. Innoslate includes labels to type the
Conduit as an interface, cable, roadway, uplink, pipe, and/or custom label added in the schema editor.
Adding a New Conduit
To connect two Assets with a conduit select an Asset. Click and drag the green circle icon to the Asset desired to
connect to. Once connected the sidebar will appear with the name auto-focused. To display the label click the
line and select "Line Label/Show Label" from the toolbar.
Setting Conduit Direction
Conduits by default have no implied direction. To set a directionality between Assets click "Undirectional" in the
toolbar and select either "Directional" for one way connections or "Bidirectional" for two-way connections.
Styling a Conduit
A Conduit can be styled to a dashed line, lightning bolt, or binary by clicking "Line Style" in the toolbar. This is
useful for OV-1 style diagrams to add enhanced visual representation.
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Removing a Conduit
To remove a Conduit from the diagram simply click the Remove button on the toolbar. To remove a Conduit
from the database and the diagram click the arrow and select remove from database.
Decomposing an Asset
Click the open button and select "Open Decomposition Diagram" to decompose Assets.
Model Representation
The asset diagram automatically produces entities, adds the appropriate relationships, and sets needed schema
attributes for you. Assets are decomposed by a parent Asset. Asset are connected by Conduits. Directional
connections have the source Asset's connected by relationship Origin attribute set to true. Bidirectional
connections have both Asset's connected by relationship Origin attribute to set to true.
Asset diagrams can be created directly through the model in database view. To create an Asset diagram through
database view:
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Click “Database”
Click “New Entity”
Select “Asset”
Name the parent Asset (P) (Name of the diagram)
The entire asset diagram model can be created from within entity view through the following process. The
model can also be modified more rapidly through the Asset's Spider Diagram.
Add new Assets onto the diagram manually:
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Click the Arrow next to "Add" in the decomposed by (children) relationship
Select “New Asset”
Name the Asset of the diagram
Click “Submit”
Repeat for all Assets on the diagram
Add new Conduits onto the diagram manually:
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Click the name of the child Asset (A) to start the connection
Click the Arrow next to "Add" in the connected by relationship
Select "New Conduit"
Name the Conduit of the diagram
Click "Submit"
Click the name of the conduit
Click "Add" in the connected by relationship
Select the other Asset (B)
Click Asset (B)
Click the parent Asset (P)
Repeat for all desired Conduits
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Last modified on July 15th 2014.
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