System engineers use Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approaches to help design and model system requirements. This manually intensive process requires expertise in both the domain of artifact creation (e.g., the requirements for a vacuum), and how to encode that information in a machine readable form (e.g., SysML). We investigated leveraging local LLMs to generate initial draft artifacts using a variety of prompt techniques and temperatures. Our experiments showed promise for generating certain types of artifacts, suggesting that even smaller, local models possesses enough MBSE knowledge to support system engineers. We observed however that while scores for artifacts remain stable across different temperature settings, this is potentially misleading as significantly different, though semantically equivalent, generations can be produced.