Dymola for Multi-Engineering Modeling and Simulation
Dag M. Brück, Hilding Elmqvist, Sven Erik Mattsson, Hans Olsson · 2002
Dymola is an integrated environment for developing models in the Modelica language. The growing use of Dymola has over time increased the demands on the development environment. Requests for extension and redesign originate from two sources: the need to simplify the use of Dymola to better support new and inexperienced users, and the need to better support “power users ” which model extremely large and complex systems. Key areas in the development of Dymola are: a simplified and more coherent graphical user interface, browsing facilities for navigating large and complex systems, new experiment facilities for managing complex simulation tasks, distributed (parallel) simulation, and integrated version control to help manage model libraries and complete models. The paper describes the extensively redesigned Dymola 5, with an emphasis on new features compared to Dymola 4.