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What's New in SystemModeler 3

The following features are new in Wolfram SystemModeler 3. Features of previous versions can be found on our MathModelica pages. SystemModeler 3 was previously known as MathModelica.

Version history

General

  • Welcome screen with quick-start videos for modeling, simulation and analysis, and other resources.
  • New license system with web activation and management through Wolfram User Portal.
  • Floating network license for all supported platforms.

Model Libaries

  • Support for Modelica standard library Version 3.1, with electrical, mechanical, magnetic, and thermal domains, etc.
  • Constrained 3D mechanical systems are now supported with MultiBody components and automatic 3D real-time animation.
  • Electromagnetic systems are now supported with the addition of the magnetic FluxTubes library.
  • Systems biology is now supported through the BioChem library and import/export for systems biology markup language (SBML).
  • Support for handling different versions of libraries.
  • Improved IntroductoryExamples package.

Documentation

  • Documentation is now available from the web.
  • Dramatically improved documentation of built-in model libraries, including parameters, connections, links to examples, etc.
  • Automatically generated documentation for models, packages, etc.
  • WYSIWYG editing of embedded HTML documentation makes it easy to add professional-looking documentation to models.
  • Improved model and experiment publishing feature makes it easy to automatically publish your models, visualizations, etc.

Modeling

  • Model browser is now divided into four sections: Examples, Libraries, User Classes, and Recently Used Components.
  • Faster browsing of model libraries and components.
  • Connections between components are now color-coded to indicate domains.
  • Automatically create hierarchical models by selecting components in the diagram view.
  • Easily drill into components in hierarchical models to configure them (set parameters, initial values, etc.).
  • Interactive support for replaceable components, allowing reconfigurable models.
  • Annotations are now by default hidden in the Text View for improved readability.

Simulation

  • Improved visualization aesthetics with plot themes, grid styles, etc.
  • Improved visualization functionality with restricted time range.
  • Support for attaching shapes (DXF or OBJ formats) to multibody components.
  • Support for attaching a camera to multibody components.
  • Import of .mat and .txt data that can directly drive models.
  • Support for storing parameter settings from an experiment within the model or generating a new model with those settings.
  • Dynamic state selection is now supported, including full configurability at model or package levels.
  • Support for the annotation of Evaluate, allowing parameter inlining for improved simulation performance.
  • Generic TCP/IP-based communication interface for connecting simulations with other applications.
  • Possibility to synchronize simulation with real time.
  • Support for real-time updating of 2D and 3D visualization.
  • New fixed-step explicit solvers suitable for real time: explicit Euler, Heun, and fourth-order Runge–Kutta.

Analysis

  • New Wolfram SystemModeler Link™ package for connecting Mathematica to SystemModeler.
  • Extensive documentation with tutorial and hundreds of examples.
  • Directly simulate any Modelica model with control over parameters, initial values, solvers, etc.
  • Access to simulation data, including interpolating functions, events, etc.
  • Automatically parallelized parameter sweeps.
  • Directly compute parameter sensitivities for model calibration and optimization.
  • Immediate visualization of simulation results, such as parameter sweeps, sensitivities, etc.
  • Access to Modelica model data, including equations, variables, parameters, etc.
  • Support for updating Modelica models, such as parameter and initial values.
  • Direct support for model linearization typically used for control design.
  • Direct support for finding steady-state or equilibrium states for models.
  • Full integration with control system functionality.