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Template:NEW30 This How To describe how to create a plot using Matlab®'s hist command.
System requirements
- Hassayampa (Version 3.0)
- You must be using a version of GridLAB-D that support the link directive.
- Matlab link
- You must have a version of Matlab that supports the Matlab external interface engine and the hist command.
Suppose you have a GLM file named my_plot.glm that defines a trivial object test as follows:
clock { starttime '2001-01-01 0:00:00'; stoptime '2001-01-02 0:00:00'; } class test { random x; } object test { name my_test; x "type:normal(0,1); refresh:1min; integrate"; }
Step 1 - Link GLM to Matlab using a link control file
Add the link directive to your GLM file:
link matlab_plot.link;
Step 2 - Create the link control file
Create the link control file using the following commands
target matlab workdir hist window show output 100000 global object export my_test.x x on_init q=zeros(1000,1); n=1; ans=GLD_OK; on_sync if(n<1000) q(n)=x; ans=TS_NEVER; on_term hist(q); saveas(gcf,'q.png'); ans=GLD_OK;
Step 3 - Run GridLAB-D
C:\GridLAB-D> gridlabd my_plot.glm ... perhaps some output is displayed C:\GridALB-D>
Step 4 - View the PNG file
Open a file explorer, go the hist folder, and double-click on the PNG file.