Model Browser User's Guide

Project Level: Menus

File Menu

Note    The File menu remains constant in each Model Browser view. The New child node function always creates a new child node, and the Delete current node function always deletes the current node. These change according to which node in the model tree is currently selected.

• New Project opens a new project file. You are prompted to save or lose the current project.
• Open Project opens a file browser to select the project to open.
• Save Project and Save Project As save the project with all the models it contains as a .mat file.
• New Test Plan opens a dialog with the choice of One-Stage or Two-Stage test plans, or you can browse for other test plans. The New (child node) menu option always creates a new child node of whichever node is selected in the model tree.

• At startup, the project node is automatically selected, so the appropriate child node is a new test plan.

Note    File -> New changes depending on which node in the model tree is selected. In each case the option offers a new child node immediately below the one currently selected, that is, a New Test Plan (if a project node is selected), a New Response Model (from a test plan) or a New Model child node (from a one-stage response). For two-stage models you can add a New Local Model (from a response node), a New Response Feature (from a local node) and a New Model from a response feature node.

• Export Models brings up the Export Models dialog. This allows you to export any models selected in the tree (along with their child nodes, in some cases) to the MATLAB workspace, to file for importing into CAGE, or to Simulink. See Exporting Models.
• Delete "Untitled" Like the New item in this menu, this option changes depending on which node in the model tree is selected. This menu item deletes whichever node is currently selected in the model tree (along with any child nodes), and the appropriate name appears here.
• Clean Up Tree From any modeling node where a best model has been selected (from the child nodes), you can use this to delete all other child nodes. Only the child nodes selected as best remain.
• Preferences brings up the MBC File Preferences dialog, in which you can specify default locations for projects, data, models, and templates. You can also edit and save user information: name, company, department and contact details. This information is saved with each project level note, and you can use this to trace the history of a project.
• Print is only enabled in views with plots -- not test plan or project level.
• 1,2,3,4: A list of the four most recent project files, including their pathnames.
• Close Exits from the Model Browser part of the toolbox (CAGE and MATLAB are unaffected).

Data Menu

• New Data -- Opens the Data Editor.
• Copy Data -- Copies the selected data set.
• Edit Data -- Opens the Data Editor to enable data editing.
• Delete Data -- Deletes the selected data set.

Window Menu

Depending on which toolbox windows are open, a list appears under this menu and whichever window is selected is brought to the front. The Window menu remains constant throughout the Model Browser.

Help Menu

The Help menu remains consistent throughout the Model Browser.

• MBC Help -- Opens the Model-Based Calibration Toolbox Roadmap with links to the help tutorials and the indexed help pages.
• Context Help -- Depending on what part of the Model Browser is currently active, Context Help links to different places in the Help files.
• About MBC -- Displays version notes.

Project Level: Toolbar

Model Tree