Warning

This project is discontinued. It has been superseded by MoNK.

The Modelica Vector graphics Editor (MoVE) is a cross platform graphical editor for Modelica’s icon annotation. MoVE opens the opportunity to create the graphical representation of a model in a few minutes using a comfortable user interface.

Unique features

MoVE contains some features that are unique and missing in similar projects:

• ✓ generate pretty printed or one line annotation code

• ✓ create straight lines, circles and squares by pressing the shift key

• ✓ rotate the shapes

• ✓ import existing models

• ✓ include images by url or embed them as base64 encoded string

• ✓ export your icons as svg or png

• ✓ group and ungroup shapes

Get a taste

Version 0.5 on Mac OS X

Version 0.7 on Mac OS X

Generated formatted Modelica code

model test
  annotation(
  Icon (
    coordinateSystem(
      extent = {{0,0},{754,497}}
    ),
    graphics = {
      Ellipse(
        lineColor = {0,0,0},
        fillColor = {26,51,153},
        fillPattern = FillPattern.Solid,
        lineThickness = 4.0,
        extent = {{110,290},{288,112}},
        endAngle = 360
      ),
      Polygon(
        points = {{491,230},{543,269},{593,237},{612,301},{518,336},{433,269}},
        lineColor = {255,128,128},
        fillColor = {77,128,77},
        fillPattern = FillPattern.Solid,
        lineThickness = 4.0
      ),
      Rectangle(
        lineColor = {26,51,153},
        fillColor = {230,230,77},
        fillPattern = FillPattern.Solid,
        lineThickness = 1.0,
        extent = {{70,401}, {335,358}}
      ),
      Line(
        points = {{250,460},{541,460}},
        color = {179,26,26},
        thickness = 8.0
      )
    })
  );
end test;

Installation

Important

If you are using OpenJDK install the OpenJFX package first!

Using compiled releases

In order to install MoVE using our precompiled releases, first check that you have a valid Java JRE version 8 installed. After that grab the jar and run it by either double-clicking the jar or running the following command in your terminal:

  $ java -jar Move-0.7.0.jar &

Install from source

For installing from source follow this steps:

• install a Java JDK version >= 1.8.0_77

• install sbt

• clone the repository git clone https://git.thm.de/njss90/move.git

• get into the directory and run sbt ";compile;run"

Notes

If the javafx style manager says that he couldn’t load a font (see example below) make sure the full project path doesn’t contain a space. (The font loader can’t handle urls containing a space.) This error only occurs when running from sbt and doesn’t effect assembled jar files.

[error] May 24, 2017 12:46:01 PM com.sun.javafx.css.StyleManager loadStylesheetUnPrivileged
[error] INFO: Could not load @font-face font [file:/my files/move/target/scala-2.12/classes/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf]

License

© 2016 Nicola Justus.

MoVE is distributed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. See LICENSE file for copying permission.