Patent ID: 7765529

Claim:
A method comprising: generating, in a block diagram modeling environment, an executable block diagram representing a system, the generated executable block diagram being simulatable over a time span; receiving an input for selecting a first graphical object in the executable block diagram, the first graphical object having one or more properties; displaying a list of one or more transformation operations performable on the first graphical object for transforming the first graphical object into a second graphical object for the executable block diagram; receiving an input for selecting one of the one or more transformation operations; applying, using an electronic device, the selected one of the one or more transformation operations on the first graphical object for creating the second graphical object, the second graphical object having one or more properties that are different from the one or more properties of the first graphical object; incorporating the first graphical object and incorporating the second graphical object into the executable block diagram within the block diagram modeling environment; and simulating the executable block diagram over the time span.