![]() You mayģ) If you want to label ports at the moment, you need to define your Will pass regardless of the position of its connecting blocks. Those will be "control points" through which the link Using automatic layouts (also accessible via keyboard shortcuts).Ģ) When dragging a link from a port, you can click in the diagram at "Link style" menus which enables you to label/color it as well as Pleased to hear that you're using Xcos, it's always good to have feedback!ġ) Right-clicking a "link" (which you call "signal") pops "Format" and However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free therefore, no responsibility is accepted for any loss or damage in any way arising from its use.īroers Building, 21 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA This message and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this email in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. ![]() The information contained in this email may be privileged and is intended for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. For us mere mortals whose designs don't always work first time every time, this could be a problem. Xcos lets you put a mask on a block, but I can't then see any way to look at the subsystem under the mask, except by completely deleting the mask. If it's your own block, Simulink lets you look at the subsystem under the mask. I can see the "Kalman" demo doing something like this (or perhaps like point 2, I can't tell), but I can't find anywhere how those names for flows are set up.ĥ) Masks. Auto-coding can then use that variable name, or if you're coding up a design manually then you can use that name. Typically you'd give this a variable name. As the signal flow goes through the design, Simulink labels the signal. Is there a way to make Xcos subsystems do this?Ĥ) Simulink lets you put names on signal flows as they come out of an output. That makes the design clearer, instead of having to dig into the subsystem and look for annotion text in there (or worse, figure it out directly from the design itself). When I drop an instance of that subsystem into a diagram, those names will appear next to the inputs/outputs. If I've got a subsystem calculating biquad filter coefficients, say, I can label the inputs "cornerFreq", "qFactor" and "sampleTime", and the outputs as "b0/b1/b2/a0/a1/a2". My rule of thumb is that if the design layout looks messy or rushed then the thought processes involved probably were too, and that makes me worried.ģ) In Simulink, I can put labels on inputs and outputs. Of course I can use from/goto blocks where the automatic layout doesn't look good, or I could use unity gains or single-input sum blocks as a hack to force signals through some point without changing them, but none of that is really ideal. How do I make signals default to horizontal instead of rat's-nest (point-to-point)?Ģ) Perhaps related to that, is it possible to manually drag signals to where I want them to be laid out? Some time back I used VisSim (for another example) - that also routed signals automatically, but it had a "wiring" block which let you direct them via a particular point. ![]() I went looking for a mailing list FAQ but I didn't see one.ġ) The first one should be simple. There are a few newbie things I'm trying to work out with this, none of which I've managed to find in the Xcos tutorials, help docs, or the wiki. What's currently bugging me with Xcos is subsystem and signal labelling, which are fundamental to building a design that's maintainable. ![]() At my new place, I'm checking out Xcos (and hence Scilab) as a free alternative to Simulink, partly on principle, and partly so our team aren't constrained by bean-counters telling us how many development seats we can afford. I've done quite a lot of work with Matlab and Simulink in previous jobs.
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