Electric Parking Brake Model Snippet

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  In today’s model snippet of the day I post a first draft class diagram of an electric parking brake.  The classes are rotor, caliper, gear box and motor.  Attributes are placed such that the rotor has a diameter.  The caliper is in a current_position.  The gear box must have gears that provide a reduction.  The motor […]

Getting Started with GitHub

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  The BridgePoint source code is published on GitHub under the xtUML organization (http://github.com/xtuml).   If you are new to git, it works fundamentally different than revision control systems like CVS and SVN.  Chief among the differences is that each user has their own clone of the entire repository, rather than a single central repository. […]

Blood Pressure Cuff

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We teach Executable UML Modeling.  We teach engineers and computer scientists, but we also teach managers, accountants, teachers and even nurses.  In fact, it was a high school aged nurse-to-be that modeled the blood pressure cuff shown above on paper.  The next day in class we entered the model into BridgePoint as shown below. It is […]