Best Practices for Saving the Operating Point of a Chart

An operating point is a snapshot of the state of a Simulink^® model at a specific time during simulation. For a Stateflow^® chart, an operating point includes:

Activity of chart states
Values of chart local data
Values of chart output data
Values of persistent data in MATLAB^® functions and Truth Table blocks

For more information, see Using Operating Points in Stateflow.

Use MAT-Files to Save a Operating Point for Future Use

To save an operating point from the MATLAB base workspace, save the variable with final state data in a MAT-file.

For example, type at the command prompt:

save("sf_car_ctx01.mat","sf_car_ctx01")

For more information, see save in the MATLAB documentation.

Use Scripts to Save Operating Point Commands for Future Use

To save a list of operating point commands for future use, copy them from a procedure and paste them in a MATLAB script.

For example, to reuse the commands in Divide a Long Simulation into Segments, you can store them in a script named sf_boiler_operatingpoint_commands.m:

% Open the model.
openExample("stateflow/DivideALongSimulationIntoSegmentsExample")

% Set parameters to save the operating point at the desired time.
set_param("sf_boiler", ...
    SaveFinalState="on", ...
    FinalStateName="sf_boiler_ctx01", ...
    SaveOperatingPoint="on");

% Specify the start and stop times for the simulation segment.
set_param("sf_boiler", ...
    StartTime="0", ...
    StopTime="400");

% Simulate the model.
sim("sf_boiler");

% Disable saving of the operating point to avoid overwriting.
set_param("sf_boiler", ...
    SaveOperatingPoint="off", ...
    SaveFinalState="off");

% Load the operating point.
set_param("sf_boiler", ...
    LoadInitialState="on", ...
    InitialState="sf_boiler_ctx01");

% Specify the new stop time for the simulation segment.
set_param("sf_boiler",StopTime="600");

% Simulate the model.
sim("sf_boiler");

The start time does not change, but the operating point restore fast forwards the simulation to the time of the snapshot.