Package List

We offer a lineup of packages that can be used in conjunction with Next Design, including sample profiles and extensions for feature enhancements.

You can use them as references for metamodels and view definitions, or to add useful features.

All of these are available at no additional cost to users with an evaluation version or subscription agreement.

📦 Sample Project

⭐: Recommended

Package Name	Description
⭐BasicSamples Package	This is an evaluation sample project that allows you to experience the basic functions of Next Design. Please use it to evaluate and verify the digitization of design information across the development process by Next Design and its diverse expressive power that fits the field.
⭐Embedded Software Development Base Package	This base package is based on Automotive SPICE 1, a development process cultivated in the automotive industry, and incorporates the knowledge we have accumulated at the forefront of in-vehicle software development, making it widely usable in embedded software development sites across various industries. It systematizes the V-model process and deliverables for software development, serving as a profile that allows you to start a project immediately with Next Design.
⭐UmlSysml Package	You can design system software using UML/SysML diagrams. 2
FlowChart Package	This is an extension package that combines a profile and extensions for creating flowcharts. 2
TimingChart Package	An extension package combining profiles and extensions for describing timing charts.
DFD Package	An extension package combining profiles and extensions for creating DFDs (Data Flow Diagrams).
FMEA Package	An extension package combining profiles and extensions for performing FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis). 2
FTA Package	An extension package combining profiles and extensions for performing FTA (Fault Tree Diagrams). 2
USDM Package	This is an extension package that includes a profile for describing specifications in USDM (Universal Specification Describing Manner) format.
ProcessFlowDiagram Package	This is a sample process definition document that can describe the system of process flow diagrams (PFDs) and deliverables.

🧩 Extensions

⭐: Recommended

Package Name	Description
⭐NDGit Package	This package provides functionality to support Git operations on Next Design.
⭐LightningReviewIntegration Package	This extension package allows you to manage 'design deliverable issues' and 'issue response status' on the Next Design model.
UmlSysml.EAIntegration Package	This package provides the functionality to import design data using UML/SysML diagrams created with Enterprise Architect 3 into Next Design.
ReqIFIntegration Package	This extension package allows you to import ReqIF files (a standard format for exchanging requirements specifications between tools) received from customers into the Next Design format, enabling centralized management of requirements and designs.
⭐MarkdownEditor Package	This extension package supports Markdown syntax, diagram representations such as PlantUML and Mermaid, and dynamic content display via scripts.
PartialLoad.Enhanced Package	This extension package makes the partial loading function for model files included in Next Design Enterprise Edition more convenient to use.
EnhancedErrorChecker Package	This extension package automatically performs error checking at the time the user wants to perform error checking.

Footnotes

1. Automotive SPICE is a registered trademark of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (Verband der Automobilindustrie e.V.: VDA). Our packages use Automotive SPICE as a reference, but we do not claim compliance with Automotive SPICE. ↩

2. UML, SysML, flowcharts, FMEA, and FTA are design methodologies whose specifications and notations are defined by standardization organizations. Our packages do not cover all notation methods, but rather focus on the most frequently used and representative notations. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. Enterprise Architect is a registered trademark of Sparx Systems Pty Ltd. ↩