Simulink connection without drawing lines?
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Kevin Bachovchin
on 17 Jan 2016
Answered: Pranav Pillai
on 25 Jan 2023
Hello,
Is there a way to connect two nodes in a Simulink diagram without drawing the lines (such as using ports or something like that)? I'm trying to simulate a relatively complex electric circuit in Simulink and if I try to draw all the lines, there's going to be a lot of lines overlapping each other. The circuit would be much cleaner to view if I could connect through ports at a few places instead.
Thank you,
Kevin
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Walter Roberson
on 17 Jan 2016
Would it perhaps make sense to design pieces as "subsystems" ? If I understand correctly, subsystems can be represented as having input and output ports, so your lines would at worse go to the edge of the subsystem, without having to have each external line be drawn to each internal location that needs it.
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Walter Roberson
on 17 Jan 2016
It is not immediately obvious that you cannot do that; http://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/ug/creating-subsystems.html
What happens if you create an existing circuit with a DC voltage input, select the parts after that in the circuit, and put them in a subsystem?
Are you using basic Simulink or are you using SimElectronics?
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