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Ansys System Architecture Modeler
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Manage complex products by implementing MBSE with best-in-class engineering solutions.

Create System Architecture Models with Ansys SAM

Ansys System Architecture Modeler (SAM) provides a comprehensive framework to visualize, design, and manage complex systems. It ensures efficient stakeholder communication, aligns technical solutions with business goals, identifies potential risks early, and enhances decision-making by enabling Model-Based Systems Engineering. This tool streamlines development, reduces costs, and fosters innovation.

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    SysML v2 modeling language
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    Real-time collaboration
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    Cloud-native
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    Open ecosystem
System architecture models

Quick Specs

Ansys System Architecture Modeler (SAM) Enterprise, a SysML v2 Web Platform, with connected workflows for automated requirements verification, digital mission engineering, safety analysis, cybersecurity, and embedded software prototyping.

  • Manage complexity
  • Scalable and accessible across organization
  • Web-based MBSE project management
  • Trace features to requirements
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Model integration
  • Consistent data across the system
  • Authoritative source of truth

March 2026

What’s New

Ansys SAM now delivers extended SysML v2 language support, interactive and executable model execution to accelerate requirements refinement, advanced requirement verification blending external analyses with SysML v2 expressions, and seamless API and Python interoperability driving more efficient Digital Engineering workflows. 

System Architecture Modeler Sequence Diagram
Modeling with SysML v2 Standard 

This release brings full alignment with the final SysML v2 specification, offering a collaborative, user-friendly interface. It now provides a SysML v2 textual format live view from any model element, and sequence diagram graphical editing.   

System Architecture Modeler Execution
SysML v2 Model Execution from Ansys SAM 

Initial SysML v2 behavior execution with animated diagrams, timing-accurate semantics, breakpoints, and interactive debugging. Executions can integrate tools like Ansys STK, supporting connected simulation analysis.  

Advanced Requirements Verification Workflow
Advanced Requirements Verification Workflow

Ansys SAM now supports advanced requirement verification workflows and introduces verification status display directly from the SAM UI, enabling engineers to manage requirement verification seamlessly within a single environment while strengthening the connection between Ansys SAM and ModelCenter MBSE.

Introducing the next-generation systems modeling language, SysML v2. These training videos help understand model-based systems engineering better.

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Model-Based Systems Engineering

By aligning people, processes, and technology around a single vision of a product, Ansys MBSE promises to dramatically reduce the development cost and risk of complex systems for hardware and software.

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Connecting the System Architecture Model to Engineering Tools

The Ansys System Architecture Modeler is a cloud-native modeling tool that allows customers to utilize the SysML v2 modeling language to collaboratively create and connect architectural models of the complex system they are designing.

Connecting systems architecture model to engineering tools

 

Key Features

Ansys integrates its range of open ecosystem engineering simulation, embedded software, and safety analysis to any MBSE architecture, enabling more complex systems to be designed.

  • SysML v2 Modeling Language
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Cloud-native
  • Open ecosystem
  • Model Integration
  • Easier to learn
  • Superior interoperability
  • More consistent
  • Manage access rights
  • Makes modeling accessible and scalable across the engineering organization.
  • Guarantee users are working and collaborating on the same model 
  • Real-time updates and seamless teamwork
  • On cloud or on premise
  • Compatible with tools from all vendors
  • Complies with SysML v2 interoperability standards
  • Ansys SAM intergrates seamlessly with Ansys tools like: medini, ModelCenter and Scade One

Connected workflows for automated requirements verification, digital mission engineering, safety analysis and cybersecurity and embedded software.

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