Ability to graphically visualize FMUs

[acxz]

I am currently interested in trying to port over much of my Simulink codebase into a more open standard pipeline. One huge blocker that I am currently trying to navigate around is the ability to graphically visualize FMUs, in particular the input/output connections between blocks. Having such a visual aid, can make it much easier to debug and work on FMUs and I believe would be a great addition to this package.

Thanks for your work on FMI in Julia!

[ThummeTo]

Dear @acxz,
happy to hear that you like the library!
Having a nice graphical user interface is always a win - but also a bunch of work :-D
I am not sure if I will have the time to implement that by myself to be honest... but if someone wants to add a nice GUI this would be cool of course!

BTW there is already a nice GUI in JuliaSim for object oriented modeling using ModelingToolkit (even if FMUs are causal, they can be used together with acausal modeling). I am not sure if there is already support for FMUs - but if not there will probably be one in the near future?

[acxz]

Having a nice graphical user interface is always a win - but also a bunch of work :-D

Haha, I can only imagine!

BTW there is already a nice GUI in JuliaSim for object oriented modeling using ModelingToolkit

Sweet, can you provide a link for this?

[ThummeTo]

Sure, see the JuliaSim Homepage. However, the GUI seems to be part of the non-open-source module.

[ThummeTo]

Feel free to checkout this Pluto-notebook, which is part of FMI.jl, you can load, parameterize and plot FMUs. Not exactly what you are looking for (Simulink like GUI), but useful for a quick check/overview of FMUs:
https://github.com/ThummeTo/FMI.jl/tree/main/examples/pluto-src/FMUExplorer