Hello adrpo,,

Thank you very much for your quick and frankly helpful reply. I just would like to ask some additional questions just to make sure I understood it well.

adrpo wrote:

Hi,

The answer to this is a bit complicated.
By default we cannot open any encrypted commercial libraries.

However, we do have a version of OpenModelica with encryption (for OSMC members) and library or model developers can use it to encrypt their models or libraries.
So, if library providers want to distribute a version of their encrypted libraries that can be used with OpenModelica, that is possible, but is not something we can push for.

Cheers,
Adrian Pop/

Hello to the whole OpenModelica community !

As a first timer here (as well as with the Modelica environment in general), I hope that I am posting these questions in the right forum section, if not forgive me so.
In the company I'm currently working for (a solar thermal project developer), we are currently planning to transition partly towards Modelica by developing our own detailed engineering tool within this environment.
Such developments being at a really preliminary state (we have not started to learn Modelica yet), we are still considering our options in terms of tools and libraries to use.
As you can guess, using open-source tools such as OpenModelica is an attractive option for us, especially when we are right at the start of the learning process.
Nonetheless, we have already fast-coming needs that challenge our choice to whether or not start our work with OpenModelica

1. For our current R&D project, we work with a major French research institute that will provide us in the coming months with an encrypted model  of our first  solar plant, that will be developed and encrypted in Dymola. We would first need to open, test, and use it and secondly to integrate it in more global model (we will develop ourselves the control block of the plant). First feedback from the research institute (through the Dymola support) says that it would not be possible to do within OpenModelica.
   Just to confirm or not an information coming from a commercial source, do you have any opinion or experience on the opening of encrypted models in OpenModelica ?


2. Secondly, to evaluate the already existing models and then to identify what needs to be developed to suit our needs, we would like explore the existing libraries, even the commercial ones (at least in a demo mode at first). Once again, information coming from commercial sources, distributing commercial libraries, agree on the fact that encrypted libraries cannot be opened in a Modelica open-source environment.
   Do you agree with this statement (impossible to open commercial libraries in OpenModelica) ?