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Enclosing discipline components in mechatronic components

In the course of the tutorial discipline components were created once through a mass import. Then formulas (for example to calculate a plug) were entered for the parameter values.

If a macro was changed, for example another parameter added and the discipline component synchronized with the changed macro, the parameter values were lost.

For this reason each discipline component is enclosed (encapsulated) in a mechatronic component. In the mechatronic component the same parameters are created and the formulas inserted as values. The parameters of the discipline components then always reference the parameters (interface parameters) of the same name of the encapsulating mechatronic components. After a synchronization you then only have to insert the references on the interface parameter again.