I found that although the ADE approach requires fewer steps, which is usually good, it does not give you easy access to internal variables inside of behavioral blocks.  On the plus side, the ADE waveform display tool has more analog features, like the ability to generate xy plots.

The HE approach is more cumbersome but it is much better for diagnostics because SimVision gives you have easier access to internal variables. However, in my environment, I must go through some subtle steps to store all variables. It took me a long time to find those options. Perhaps it's me but I spend most of my simulation time in a diagnostic mode. The first several runs of most analyses produce unexpected results. Sometimes it's a modeling error, sometimes pilot error, sometimes a design error.  Simvision also displays more waveforms than the AWD. (I rarely use the other ADE waveform display tool, probably just because I'm not as familiar with it.) Therefore I mostly use the HE approach.

I would appreciate ADE hints I may be missing. Although I use SimVision most of the time,  I think it could be greatly improved. For example, I still haven't figured out how to vertically zoom in on just the ranges I want to see. I usually have to fumble around before I see what I want and sometimes I have to go to the ADE/AWD to get a better view. The lack of good vertical zooming hooks probably exists because SimVision was designed primarily to view ones and zeros.