Tutorial - A Complete Design Walkthrough with Requirements Portal
Updated: October 30, 2026
The goal of this tutorial is to cover the most basic functionalities of Requirements Portal. The tutorial will take you from an empty Requirements Portal instance to a set of requirements living inside a real PCB project – a Flight Management Unit of a Drone.
This tutorial is planned as a three-part series. At this time, only Part 1 is available. Parts 2 and 3 are currently in development and will be added to the documentation once their content has been completed and reviewed.
A number of common terms used in Requirements Portal is listed below. Use the provided links to learn more.
-
Vali – parameters of blocks or analyses that can be used in calculations and documentation. A vali has a numerical value and also contains additional information such as type, unit, formula, description, and min/max requirements.
-
Valitype – a type of a vali which is used to perform automatic calculations such as "sum of children". A type can be, for example, mass, power, or flight time.
-
Blocks – models of physical parts of your product that are represented with hierarchical relationships in a block tree.
-
Requirements – a way of managing a project’s requirements easily and efficiently.
If you find an issue, select the text/image and pressCtrl + Enterto send us your feedback.