How to form a matrix with the existing 7 matrices with following rules

Now, I have 7 matrices (with specific values) in total, W(6x6), C1(3x3), C2(3x3), C3(3x3)，C4(3x3)，C5(3x3)，C6(3x3). I want to form a matrix A (18x18) with following rules:

A= [w(1,1)*C1 w(1,2)*C1 w(1,3)*C1 w(1,4)*C1 w(1,5)*C1 w(1,6)*C1

w(2,1)*C2 w(2,2)*C2 w(2,3)*C2 w(2,4)*C2 w(2,5)*C2 w(2,6)*C2

w(3,1)*C3 w(3,2)*C3 w(3,3)*C3 w(3,4)*C3 w(3,5)*C3 w(3,6)*C3

w(4,1)*C4 w(4,2)*C4 w(4,3)*C4 w(4,4)*C4 w(4,5)*C2 w(4,6)*C4

w(5,1)*C5 w(5,2)*C5 w(5,3)*C5 w(5,4)*C5 w(5,5)*C5 w(5,6)*C5

w(6,1)*C6 w(6,2)*C6 w(6,3)*C6 w(6,4)*C6 w(6,5)*C6 w(6,6)*C6]

Do I have a way to form matrix A without typing them manually? Because, in the future, I would probability solve 1000 C matrices, which is time consumming to type in manually. Thank you.

[Stephen23]

"Do I have a way to form matrix A without typing them manually?"

Of course, it is easy once you avoid using numbered variables.

"Because, in the future, I would probability solve 1000 C matrices, which is time consumming to type in manually."

Yes, that would be very time consuming. That is why no experienced MATLAB user defines lots of numbered variable names: because it wastes their time (code writing time, debugging time, runtime). Indexing is so much simpler and more efficient.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/304528-tutorial-why-variables-should-not-be-named-dynamically-eval

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

This is easiest when you avoid anti-pattern numbered variables and use one array, e.g. a cell array:

W = rand(6,6);
C = {rand(3,3),rand(3,3),rand(3,3),rand(3,3),rand(3,3),rand(3,3)}; % one array
N = numel(C);
A = kron(W,ones(3,3)).*repmat(vertcat(C{:}),1,N); % or REPELEM instead of KRON

Checking the first output submatrix (the others you can check yourself):

>> size(A)
ans =
   18   18
>> A(1:3,1:3)
ans =
   0.181146   0.014799   0.190315
   0.100409   0.250922   0.047237
   0.046128   0.018101   0.180526
>> W(1,1)*C{1}
ans =
   0.181146   0.014799   0.190315
   0.100409   0.250922   0.047237
   0.046128   0.018101   0.180526

[Tianshu Gao]

Thank you Stephen, really appreciate your help, I have learned alot.

Answer 2

[John Hageter]

Try not assigning everything individually rather create a vector of input and reshape it

[Tianshu Gao]

Thanks for your advice, I will try it.

[Tianshu Gao]

It works, even though it is a little bit complicated. Thank you.