{"id":8890,"date":"2019-05-16T12:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T17:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2019-05-16T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T17:42:43","slug":"projects-export-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2019\/05\/16\/projects-export-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects Export Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my last post on FMU import and export<\/a>, someone asked me if exporting a Simulink model to an FMU was a good way to hide the model and protect intellectual property.<\/p>\n

The answer is: No!<\/strong><\/p>\n

An FMU is simply a compressed archive. If you try changing the extension of an FMU to .zip<\/tt> and extracting it, you will find that it contains the original model. If you want to protect your IP, what I recommend is to protect the model<\/a>. Once this is done, you can leverage the project export profile feature<\/a> to automatically package only what should be shared.<\/p>\n

Let's look at an example project I put together to highlight this workflow.<\/p>\n

The Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is what my example project looks like:<\/p>\n

\"My<\/p>\n

In this project, my top model \"f14_top.slx\" is simply a wrapper containing a Model block<\/a>. With the shortcuts \"Use Source\" and \"Use Protected\", I can re-configure it in one click to either reference f14.slx<\/tt> in normal mode or reference its protected version f14.slxp<\/tt>.<\/p>\n

\"Referencing<\/p>\n

Let's look at the details...<\/p>\n

Project Shortcuts<\/strong><\/p>\n

As mentioned above, I created two MATLAB scripts that I marked as shortcuts<\/a> \"Use Source\" and \"Use Protected\". While I am developing the model, I need to work with the unprotected source model. For that, I click the \"Use Source\" shortcut, which executes:<\/p>\n

\"Normal<\/p>\n

When I am ready to share the project, I can build the protected target and reconfigure the top model to reference it:<\/p>\n

\"Protected<\/p>\n

Labels<\/strong><\/p>\n

To differentiate the files I want to share from the rest of the project, I use labels<\/a>. Those will be used later to create an export profile.<\/p>\n

When right-clicking on a file in the Project, I select Add Labels and can create new labels or select existing ones. In my case, I created the labels Source<\/em>, Protected <\/em>and Internal<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"Creating<\/p>\n

Export Profiles<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last thing to do is create an export profile<\/a>, which can be done from the Share menu:<\/p>\n

\"Export<\/p>\n

In my new profile, I can select which labels I do not want to be included when I will export the project.<\/p>\n

\"Manage<\/p>\n

If I export the project using this profile, here is what the resulting project will look like:<\/p>\n

\"Exported<\/p>\n

Now it's your turn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you have different workflows to protect your IP and share projects? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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After my last post on FMU import and export, someone asked me if exporting a Simulink model to an FMU was a good way to hide the model and protect intellectual property.
\nThe answer is: No!
\nAn FMU is... read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,24,33],"tags":[571,573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890"}],"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=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8957,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions\/8957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}