Usage of free sketches in MBSE raising the applicability of Model-Based Systems Engineering for mechanical engineers

A major cause for a lack in acceptance of today´s interdisciplinary modeling approaches is the immense difference in abstraction between engineers´ mental models and the available systems modeling languages [1]. Especially mechanical engineers, who use graphical representations like sketches and 3D CAD models, struggle with so called “graphical modeling languages” such as SysML [1][2]. These models represented by two-dimensional diagrams made out of boxes and lines, are not able to display real embodiment aspects and thus do not match with (mechanical) engineers mental models of systems [1].