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Contents

Index

• Getting Started

• User's Guide

• Modeling Mechanical Systems

• Representing Machines with Models

• Modeling Grounds and Bodies

• Modeling Degrees of Freedom

• Constraining and Driving Degrees of Freedom

• Cutting Machine Diagram Loops

• Applying Motions and Forces

• Sensing Motions and Forces

• Adding Internal Forces

• Combining One- and Three-Dimensional Mechanical Elements

• Validating Mechanical Models

• Running Mechanical Models

• Configuring SimMechanics Models in Simulink

• Configuring Methods of Solution

• Starting Visualization and Simulation

• How SimMechanics Software Works

• Troubleshooting Simulation Errors

• Improving Performance

• Generating Code

• Limitations

• Analyzing Motion

• Mechanical Dynamics

• Finding Forces from Motions

• Trimming Mechanical Models

• Linearizing Mechanical Models

• Motion, Control, and Real-Time Simulation

• About the Stewart Platform Case Studies

• About the Stewart Platform

• Modeling the Stewart Platform

• Trimming and Linearizing Through Inverse Dynamics

• About Controllers and Plants

• Analyzing Controllers

• Designing and Improving Controllers

• Generating and Simulating with Code

• Simulating with Hardware in the Loop

• Introducing Visualization and Animation

• About SimMechanics Visualization

• About Body Color and Geometry

• Hierarchy of Body, Machine, and Model Visualization Settings

• Getting Started with the Visualization Window

• Introducing the SimMechanics Visualization Window

• Controlling Body and Body Component Display

• Adjusting the Camera View

• Communicating with the Model from the Visualization Window

• Controlling Simulation from the Visualization Window

• Controlling Animation

• Recording Animation

• SimMechanics Visualization Menus and Their Controls

• Customizing Visualization and Animation

• About Custom SimMechanics Visualization

• Customizing Visualized Body Colors

• Customizing Visualized Body Geometries

• Visualizing with a Virtual Reality Client

• Importing Mechanical Models

• Introducing Mechanical Import

• Generating New Models from Physical Modeling XML

• Working with Generated Models

• Updating Generated Models Using Physical Modeling XML

• Controlling Model Update at the Block Level

• Troubleshooting Imported and Updated Models

• Computer-Aided Design Translation

• About the CAD Translation Case Studies

• Translating a CAD Part into a Body

• Translating CAD Constraints into Joints

• Updating and Retranslating a CAD Pendulum

• Translating a CAD Robot Arm

• Translating a CAD Stewart Platform

• Configuration Parameters

• SimMechanics Pane: General

SimMechanics Pane Overview

Warn if machine contains redundant constraints

Warn if number of initial constraints is unstable

Mark automatically cut joints

Display machines after updating diagram

Show animation during simulation

Show only port coordinate systems

Default body color (RGB)

Default body geometries

• Mechanical Import

• Import Physical Modeling XML Dialog Box

Mechanical Import Dialog Box Overview

Specify model to import into

Specify subsystem to import into

Create new subsystem if it does not exist

Model simplification

Name joints by joint type

Ensure block names do not overlap

Layout direction

Arrange all imported blocks

Respect individual block update settings

Add new joints at top level

Backup model location

• Technical Conventions

• Mechanical Conventions and Abbreviations

Right-Hand Rule

Vector Multiplication

Common Abbreviations

Mechanical Units

• Release Notes

SimMechanics roadmap page

	Blocks:
	By Category
	Alphabetical List

	Functions:
	Alphabetical List

	CAD Interfaces:
	SimMechanics Link



	Documentation Set

	Getting Started
	Introduces SimMechanics and gets you started with mechanical modeling

	User's Guide
	Provides tutorials and comprehensive information about SimMechanics

	Visualization and Import Guide
	Provides tutorials and comprehensive information about SimMechanics visualization and model import and generation

	Examples in Documentation
	Lists major examples in the SimMechanics documentation



	Product Demos

	SimMechanics Demos
	Presents a collection of demos that help you learn the product



	What's New

	Release Notes
	Summarizes new features, bug fixes, upgrade issues, etc.



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	PDF Documents
	Provides printable versions of documentation for SimMechanics

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