Overview

This guide contains information about using the Capital™ Systems Architect software.

Capital Systems Architect allows you to create platform designs and diagrams. Within the platform diagrams, Capital Systems Architect takes functions from associated Capital Systems Modeler designs and recognizes them as software or electrical devices, which you can place in components.

The Overview chapter covers the following topics (each documented in this knowledge base as separate files where extracted):

• Platform Design Overview
• Styling Objects in Diagrams
• Functional Design Association
• Extensibility Plug-Ins
• Custom Action Plug-Ins
• Object Model Integrity
• Launching Capital Component Manager From This Application
• Diagram Language Translation
• Metrics
• Printing

Capital Systems Architect User Guide, 2512.2604. Unpublished work. © 2026 Siemens