The Scope of this Tutorial

This tutorial will guide you on how to build a Design Studio with webgme. If both of these terms are completely new to you, that’s fine. It will also explain what these are.

The tutorial will go through all steps needed to host your own deployment, create your own meta-model, implement interpreters and customize the visualization. In order to give you an idea of how all these things play a roll in a Design Studio, these steps will be illustrated through an example of a simple electrical circuit domain. In short we will:

• Create a meta-model suitable for modeling electrical circuits
• Write an interpreter that generates Modelica code
• Extend the interpreter to simulate the generated Modelica code using OpenModelica
• Integrate the generated results with the model

Target Audience

This is for you, a researcher or an engineer, who might have seen an example of an application build up in webgme and are interested in building your application fitting your domain.

It also for you who just heard about webgme and are new to meta-modeling and would like to learn more about it.

Prerequisites

Although we try to explain the underlying technologies that webgme depend on, users are assumed to have a basic understanding of these. If not, it’s recommended to use the internet and read up on the basics behind these technologies. In addition it’s required that you have some experience in JavaScript. To customize the visualization basic knowledge of CSS and HTML5 is needed.