CIMTool

April 27, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

CIMTool is an open source tool that supports the Common Information Model (CIM) standards used in the electric power industry. It is potentially useful for other semantic applications too.

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Project Corporate Sponsorship

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AspenTech serves at the official corporate sponsor supporting the development of CIMTool on behalf of the UCAIug.

CIMTool Discussion Forums

The CIMTool Google Group is no longer actively monitored and has been retained only for archival purposes. Please post all questions, suggestions, and/or comments directly to the new CIMTool Discussions board for this repository.

Using CIMTool with Enterprise Architect

For full details on how to use CIMTool with Enterprise Architect refer to the "How To" section on this topic located here. The documentation includes detailed information on where to locate CIM models as well as options for how to import the CIM schema into CIMTool.

CIMTool Profiling Tutorial

For further details on how to use CIMTool to create and edit profiles based on the CIM visit the "How To" section of https://cimtool.ucaiug.io/.

CIMTool-Builders-Library Repository

Once you get acquainted with CIMTool visit the CIMTool Builders Library companion repository that provides information on building your own CIMTool builders using XSLT transforms.

CIMTool Development

For developers interested in contributing to the CIMTool Project detailed instructions on installing and setting up an Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) can be found at CIMTool Development Environment Setup

Instructions on packaging and deployment of CIMTool as an Eclipse Product can be found at CIMTool Packaging & Deployment Guide

Note that these instructions are purely for those interested in participating in the development of CIMTool. They do not describe standard use of the tool for creating profiles.

Product Roadmap

The CIMTool public roadmap is maintained on GitHub Projects. View the current release plan and backlog at CIMTool Roadmap.

Latest Release

  • 2.2.0

    • The latest release is available here on GitHub at CIMTool-2.2.0 and is delivered as a ZIP file. Releases are also made available in the CIMug tools download folder on the UCAIug website.
    • Information on features and fixes for the release can be found here.

Installation & Setup

For instructions on installation and setup of CIMTool see CIMTool Installation & Setup.

License

Distributed under the LGPL-2.1 license. See LICENSE for more information.