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"David " <dave@bigcompany.com> wrote in message <frlqn5$874$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Praetorian <ashish.sadanandan@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> <b84bfe74-a8e5-436f-9699-
> daea0b9c5116@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com>...
> > On Mar 12, 4:34 am, "David " <d...@bigcompany.com> wrote:
> > > is there any nice way to compare simulink model files 
> to
> > > highlight changed blocks??
> > 
> > Hi David,
> > There is a very nice (and expensive) way to compare 
> Simulink models,
> > it's a tool called SimDiff 
> (http://www.ensoftcorp.com/SimDiff/
> > Overview.gen.html). The way I usually compare 2 Simulink 
> models is to
> > just open them up in any diff utility and look through 
> the
> > differences. Since the model files are just ASCII text 
> files this
> > works quite well if there aren't too many changes.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Ashish.
> 
> yeah, i do that also... unfortunately these models are 
> huge and with even small changes they are hard to sort out 
> with normal diff tools, especially if the only diffs are 
> block locations.
...
Hey David,
The program ecDIFF has been crunching through 100MB+ mdl files in search of differences, will output them in a list and display them graphically. It is available through FunctionSIM.
Regards,
Karl