About Data Import and Export

To exchange data with other tools, Electrical & Electronics Architecture can import and export data and models from and to other existing tools.

This page discusses:

See Also
About Communication Protocol Standards

EEXML

EEXML is a dedicated XML format intended for data import from third-party tools not belonging to the above list.

You can create EEXML-format data from the external tools and import the corresponding EEXML file into Electrical & Electronics Architecture.

  • The EEXML format conveys all Electrical & Electronics Architecture specific objects except products, effectivities, and diagrams.
  • The EEXML import can handle customized attributes of both PLM-level (directly exposed in the database) and aggregated objects like communication frames and signals, and details of system mappings. For more information, see Importing EEXML.
  • For more information about the EEXML export, see EE Tools Section.

AutomationML (AML)

AutomationML (Automation Markup Language) is an open and neutral XML-based data exchange format. It can be used to interconnect engineering tools in their different disciplines, such as mechanical plant engineering, electrical design, process engineering, HMI development, PLC and robot programming. For more information, see Exporting AutomationML Files.

AUTOSAR 4.0 (ARXML)

ARXML (Autosar Extensible Markup Language) files contain detailed information in a structured format of all the standardized application interfaces data.

Warning: The concepts available in Electrical & Electronics Architecture are more abstract than AUTOSAR concepts, so when exporting to .arxml many parameters are assigned by default in the generated AUTOSAR data.
For more information, see Equivalence of Concepts and Exporting ARXML Files.