smbFilename
by Tim C. Lueth, SG-Lib Toolbox: SolidGeometry 5.6 - SimMechanics
Introduced first in SolidGeometry 3.1, Creation date: 2016-12-06, Last change: 2025-09-14
returns a temporary filename or directory
Description
The function 'smbNewSystem' creates a temporary directory on the users desktop to collect all temporary STL files that are generated during the design. By calling 'smbFilename' without parameters, the directory name is returned. By calling 'smbFilename' with a filename the full directory path is returned. This functions defines the letters of the temp directory and files.
See Also: smbNewSystem
, smbWhich
, smbPSLibname
, smbPSLibCompile
Example Illustration
Syntax
fn=smbFilename([FName])
Input Parameter
Output Parameter
fn: | | full path of the desired filename |
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Algorithm (Workflow)
This function, smbFilename, is designed to generate a temporary filename or directory path for use in a SimMechanics environment. It is part of the SolidGeometry library and was created by Tim Lueth.
Input Parameters
- FName: This is an optional input parameter. It represents the desired filename. If provided, the function will return the full path to this file within a temporary directory. If not provided, the function will return the path to the temporary directory itself.
Output
- fn: This is the output of the function. It is a string representing the full path of the desired filename or the temporary directory.
Algorithm Steps
- Initialize
FName as an empty string.
- Check if there is at least one input argument and if the first argument is not empty. If so, assign this argument to
FName.
- Construct the path using the
desktopdir function, the bdroot function, and the FName variable. The path is formatted as '%stmp_%s/%s', where the placeholders are replaced by the desktop directory, the root of the current Simulink model, and the filename, respectively.
- If the operating system is Windows (checked using
ispc), replace forward slashes with backslashes in the path string.
- Return the constructed path as the output
fn.
Algorithm explaination created using ChatGPT on 2025-08-19 00:33. (Please note: No guarantee for the correctness of this explanation)
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