setting Simulink data view tolerance progamatically

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is it possible to to set the tolerance used by the SDI programatically? for example,assuming i have some .mat files called alldata_b, and alldata from separate simulink runs.
runID5 = Simulink.sdi.createRun('alldata_b','file','alldata_b');
runID6 = Simulink.sdi.createRun('alldata', 'file','alldata');
diffSDI_tmp = Simulink.sdi.compareRuns(runID5, runID6);
% Number of comparisons in result
cntSigCmp_tmp = diffSDI_tmp.count;
% Iterate through each result element
for i = 1:cntSigCmp_tmp
% Get signal result at index i
sigDiff_tmp = diffSDI_tmp.getResultByIndex(i);
sigNam_tmp = Simulink.sdi.getSignal(i); % create the object first
sigNam_tmp = sigNam_tmp.signalLabel; % get the object from the object
sigDiff_tmp.tol = 1;
end
the line "sigDiff_tmp.tol = 1;" gives the following result:
You cannot set the read-only property 'tol' of DiffSignalResult.
Error in <my_script> (line X)
sigDiff_tmp.tol = 1;
does this mean the only way to change the tolerance is by editing in the SDI? is there no way around this?

Accepted Answer

Sriram Narayanan
Sriram Narayanan on 3 Jun 2015
It is currently not possible to tune the signal comparison tolerance programmatically. However, one could specify the absolute and relative tolerance for each signal programmatically.
The following is a code snippet of how this can be achieved.
% Configure model "slexAircraftExample" for logging and simulate
simOut = sim('slexAircraftExample', 'SaveOutput','on', ...
'SaveFormat', 'StructureWithTime', ...
'ReturnWorkspaceOutputs', 'on');
% Create a Simulation Data Inspector run
[runID,runIndex,signalIDs] = Simulink.sdi.createRun('My Run', ...
'base',{'simOut'});
% Get the Simulink.sdi.Run object corresponding to the new run ID
runObj = Simulink.sdi.getRun(runID);
% Get the number of signals in the run
numSignals = runObj.signalCount;
% Get the Simulink.sdi.Signal objects for each signal in the run
% Specify the absolute and relative tolerance for each signal
for i = 1:numSignals
signalObjs(i) = runObj.getSignal(signalIDs(i));
signalObjs(i).absTol = 0.5;
signalObjs(i).relTol = 0.005;
end
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Albert Mathews
Albert Mathews on 23 Jun 2015
Thank you Sriram Narayanan The answer above works for setting the tol values for a run. however, an additional note should be made that if the user wants to set the tol values for a SDI.compareRuns object, the tol values MUST be set for the first run argument, see below, otherwise setting tols for the second run argument does nothing.
runID1 = Simulink.sdi.createRun(blah blah);
[runID,runIndex,signalIDs] = Simulink.sdi.createRun(blah blah);
% Get the Simulink.sdi.Run object corresponding to the new run ID
runObj = Simulink.sdi.getRun(runID);
% Get the number of signals in the run
numSignals = runObj.signalCount;
% Get the Simulink.sdi.Signal objects for each signal in the run
% Specify the absolute and relative tolerance for each signal
for i = 1:numSignals;
signalObjs(i) = runObj.getSignal(signalIDs(i));
signalObjs(i).absTol = 1;
signalObjs(i).relTol = 0.1;
end
diffSDI_tmp = Simulink.sdi.compareRuns(runID, runID1, Simulink.sdi.AlignType.BlockPath);
note how the tols are set for runID, and NOT runID1. and how runID is the first run argument in Simulink.sdi.compareRuns

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William R
William R on 24 Aug 2018
But what is not answered in this post is how to set the time tolerance programmatically of a signal. This can be done manually in the SDi but if you store a Simulink.sdi.Signal to the workspace there is no timeTol property and you can also not add or edit this. If you try to add it the following error pops up:
No public property TimeTol exists for class Simulink.sdi.Signal.
Why is this not possible? Or is there another way to do this?

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