%DISTRIBUTEBLOCKS Distribute blocks in Simulink block library % % distributeBlocks(MODEL) equidistantly distributes blocks in a Simulink % block library named MODEL. % % Notes:: % - The MATLAB functions to create Simulink blocks from symbolic % expresssions actually place all blocks on top of each other. This % function scans a simulink model and rearranges the blocks on an % equidistantly spaced grid. % - The Simulink model must already be opened before running this % function! % % Author:: % Joern Malzahn % 2012 RST, Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Germany. % http://www.rst.e-technik.tu-dortmund.de % % See also symexpr2slblock, doesblockexist. % Copyright (C) 2012-2013, by Joern Malzahn % % This file is part of The Robotics Toolbox for Matlab (RTB). % % RTB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify % it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by % the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or % (at your option) any later version. % % RTB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, % but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of % MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the % GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. % % You should have received a copy of the GNU Leser General Public License % along with RTB. If not, see . % % http://www.petercorke.com % % The code generation module emerged during the work on a project funded by % the German Research Foundation (DFG, BE1569/7-1). The authors gratefully % acknowledge the financial support. function [ ] = distributeblocks( mdlName ) %% Get a list of all first level blocks: blockNames = find_system(mdlName,'SearchDepth',1); blockNames = blockNames(2:end); % First cell contains the model name %% Determine the maximum width and height of a block allPosC = get_param(blockNames,'Position'); allPosM = cell2mat(allPosC); % [left top right bottom] The maximum value for a coordinate is 32767 widths = allPosM(:,3)-allPosM(:,1); heights = allPosM(:,4)-allPosM(:,2); maxWidth = max(widths); maxHeight = max(heights); %% Set grid spacing wBase = 2*maxWidth; hBase = 2*maxHeight; %% Start rearranging blocks nBlocks = size(allPosM,1); nColRow = ceil(sqrt(nBlocks)); for iBlocks = 1:nBlocks % block location on grid [row,col] = ind2sub([nColRow, nColRow],iBlocks); % compute block coordinates left = col*wBase; right = left+maxWidth; top = row*hBase; bottom = top+maxHeight; % apply new coordinates set_param(blockNames{iBlocks},'Position',[left top right bottom]) end end