Inproceedings,
External Interface to Modelica in Dymola
Proceedings of the 4th International Modelica Conference, page 603-611. (2005)
Abstract
Dymola 1 provides an integrated environment for
modeling, simulation and scripting based on the
Modelica language. However, Modelica is not always
the best choice for GUI-design, database access,
or canned presentations of libraries (in the last
case the usual choices are PowerPoint® presentations,
pdf-documents, or animation files).
The solution in these cases is to leverage other tools,
such that they can interface to Dymola’s Modelica
functionality and vice-versa for call-backs/links from
Dymola to external tools. These solutions are already
implemented for the forthcoming version Dymola 6,
except for a few specific items described as future
plans (these might be implemented in time for the
release of Dymola 6). Some solutions are also available
in previous versions of Dymola as described in
the manual 1.
