In Simulink, we try to add menu items and define shortcuts for common tasks that we know most users need to do. For example, everybody needs to save models, so we have a button on the toolbar and a shortcut (Ctrl+S).<\/p>\r\n\r\n
However, if there is a task you do frequently, adding custom menus and shortcuts can significantly speedup your workflow.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
My need: Debugging Buses<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n In my case, I often need to debug large models made of buses, simplifying the problem by removing parts of the model. I reduce the complexity by replacing many blocks with one Constant block outputting a bus signal.\r\n\r\n Creating the sl_custmization.m file<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n When I realized I could do that with less than 10 lines of code, I was pretty happy:<\/p>\r\n\r\n Here is how it works:<\/p>\r\n\r\n I could probably make the callback more robust, but I wanted to keep this example as simple as possible to highlight the concept.<\/p>\r\n\r\n The Final Result<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n Once this file is saved somewhere on my path, I refresh the customizations using sl_refresh_customization<\/tt> and I can use my new entry from the Tools menu, or using Ctrl+Shift+B.<\/p>\r\n\r\n My other customizations<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n Here are a few other things for which I created shortcuts using sl_customization files<\/p>\r\n\r\n Now it's your turn<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n For more examples, I recommend looking at the MATLAB Central submission highlighted by Seth in a previous post<\/a>: Customizing the Simulink Interface Demo<\/a> by Saurabh Mahapatra<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Do you add menu entries and shortcuts for the tasks you accomplish frequently? What are those tasks? Let us know by leaving a comment here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On this blog, I sometimes highlight features that it took me a while to appreciate and include in my daily workflow.\r\n\r\nI hate to admit it, but quite often those are features that I was aware of for... read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,33],"tags":[327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Replacing](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2013Q2\/cuttingBuses.png\")
<\/p>\r\n\r\nTo do this I create bus objects and initialize the bus with a structure. One morning I got tired of typing Simulink.Bus.createObject(bdroot,gcb)<\/a><\/tt> and Simulink.Bus.createMATLABStruct<\/a><\/tt>, so I decided that I wanted a shortcut.<\/p>\r\n\r\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2013Q2\/my_sl_customization.png\")
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