There is the ability within Dymola to create a function to load a customised list of libraries, rather than manually loading each library. Using this approach, you can create multiple functions to load the sets of libraries required in different projects. These functions can then be made easily accessible as a toolbar menu item or by having them appear by default in the package browser. This is done by modifying a Dymola startup script to automatically open the appropriate package and the method can be found here: The Dymola Startup Configuration
First a package needs to be created to hold the functions (e.g. MyTools). Within the new package create a new function; to make it more recognisable as a function you can extend “Modelica.Icon.Function” which will carry over the function icon:
Figure 1: New function box to open a Claytex library
The Dymola built-in function that opens a Modelica file is:
DymolaCommands.SimulatorAPI.openModel
This function can be used to open a specific model file or a complete package if the package.mo (or package.moe for an encrypted library) within the library directory is specified
An example for the path to the Claytex library package.mo could therefore be:
“C:\Claytex\Modelica\Claytex\package.mo”
This function requires the path to be within quotation marks. A second input to the function controls whether the working directory should be changed to the folder that contains the file being loaded or if the directory should not be changed. To keep the default working directory the following modification needs to be implemented:
changeDirectory=false
This function can be repeated as many times with any number of different libraries as long as none of the libraries conflict.
In the following example, a final step is to change the working directory to a specific location using the cd command.
function ClaytexLibrariesSuite "Opens some Claytex libraries"
extends Modelica.Icons.Function;
// SCRIPT TO OPEN SOME CLAYTEX LIBRARIES
algorithm
//CLAYTEX LIBRARY
DymolaCommands.SimulatorAPI.openModel( "C:\Claytex\Modelica\Claytex\package.mo", changeDirectory=false);
//VDL MOTORSPORTS LIBRARY
DymolaCommands.SimulatorAPI.openModel( "C:\Claytex\Modelica\VDLMotorsports\package.mo", changeDirectory=false);
//POWERTRAIN DYNAMICS LIBRARY
DymolaCommands.SimulatorAPI.openModel( "C:\Claytex\Modelica\PTDynamics\package.mo", changeDirectory=false);
//FLEX BODY LIBRARY
DymolaCommands.SimulatorAPI.openModel( "C:\Claytex\Modelica\FlexBody\package.mo", changeDirectory=false);
//SIMULATOR LIBRARY
DymolaCommands.SimulatorAPI.openModel( "C:\Claytex\Modelica\Simulator\package.mo", changeDirectory=false);
//ENSURE THE CORRECT WORKING DIRECTORY IS VALID
DymolaCommands.System.cd("C:\Users\Public\Documents\Dymola");
annotation ();
end ClaytexLibrariesSuite;
Written by: David Briant – Project Engineer