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Topic Title: CADM Generator Toolkit Available for Download Here
Topic Summary: CADM Generator Toolkit for System Architect
Created On: 3-Oct-2008 18:54
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 3-Oct-2008 18:54
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lou varveris

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Hi all,

Attached to this thread is the System Architect CADM Generator Toolkit. The CADM Generator enables System Architect DoDAF and DoDAF ABM metamodels to be generated to CADM conformant XML for loading into DARS. Using this toolkit, users can comply with Directive 6212.

The CADM Generator Toolkit should work with System Architect DoDAF and DoDAF ABM V10.8 and later.

Telelogic IBM is not providing formal support for the CADM Generator (see readme for Warranty and Support information). Although the CADM Generator has been tested and works on our base testing DoDAF encyclopedias, we are providing this software to the community free of additional charge as a kind of open-source product -- ie, users can change it (especially if they have changed their architecture metamodel via usrprops). We are providing the source code (in VBA macros) and design documents.

Please note that the CADM Generator needs to get a lot of information from diagrams as well as definitions in a successive fashion, and because of this, it takes a while to do the generation. I would run it on a fast computer and expect it to take at least a few hours to generate CADM for a normal sized encyclopedia.

It is important to run through the help first to prepare your architecture for generation - there are certain fields that must be filled in, and if they are not, the CADM Generator will stop when it encounters them, causing you to need to fill them out and then restart generation. So best to fill them all out first. Some of these are "not officially required by CADM but needed by DARS to load" type of fields -- such as providing a "Model" for an OV-5, etc.

So to use this toolkit, I'd suggest:

1. Unzipping the file.
2. Read the readme.
3. Read the Installation Instruction pdf (SA_CADM_Generator_Installation_Instructions.pdf) and install the product.
4. Download the CADM_Help.zip file (Couldn't be in one zip because SA Forum only allows files up to 2MB in size, so had to split into two zip files). Open the help file (CADM.chm) and follow the steps to prepare your architecture for generation, before pushing the button to generate.

(Note: if you have version 11.1 of SA or later, you can throw the CADM.chm help file into your System Architect Help directory, and it will auto show up in your Help table of contents, under the DoDAF book).

Lou

SA_CADM_Toolkit.zip
SA_CADM_Toolkit.zip  (1654 KB)
CADM_Help.zip
CADM_Help.zip  (1482 KB)



Edited: 7-Oct-2008 at 19:10 by lou varveris
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 3-Oct-2008 21:54
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lou varveris

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Attached also is a Mapping Aide document, which helps you to read the mapping CSV spreadsheets (either OutputNonAbm.csv or OutputAbm.csv, both provided in the toolkit). More details on how to read the mapping spreadsheets are provided in the CADM.chm help file.

This Mapping Aide maps internal SA numbers for Diagrams, Symbols, and Definitions used in the CADM Generator Toolkit to the DoDAF names, so that you don't have to go find them via defns.bas, symbols.bas, or diagrams.bas.




Edited: 3-Oct-2008 at 21:54 by lou varveris
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