Required Products

  Other Related Products

  What the Demo Represents

  Viewing a Mechanical Drawing of the Conveyor

  What the Demo Illustrates

  Opening the Model

  Running the Model

  Modifying the Model

  Visualizing and Animating the Model

  About SimMechanics Software

  Modeling Mechanical Systems

  Bodies, Coordinate Systems, Joints, and Constraints

  Sensors, Actuators, Friction, and Force Elements

  Simulating and Analyzing Mechanical Motion

  Visualizing and Animating Models

  For More Information

  Using the MATLAB Help System for Documentation and Demos

  Finding Special SimMechanics Help

• Introducing the SimMechanics Block Libraries

  Accessing the Libraries

  Using the Libraries

  About Machine Modeling and Simulation

  Essential Steps to Build a Model

  Essential Steps to Configure and Run a Model

  Modeling the Simple Pendulum

  Opening the SimMechanics Block Library

  The World Coordinate System and Gravity

  Configuring the Ground

  Configuring the Body

  Configuring the Joint

  Adding a Sensor and Starting the Simulation

  Visualizing and Animating the Simple Pendulum

  Starting Visualization

  Selecting a Body Geometry

  Displaying the Pendulum

  Modeling and Visualizing More Complex Machines

  Modeling the Four Bar Mechanism

  Viewing a Mechanical Drawing of the Four Bar Mechanism

  Counting the Degrees of Freedom

  Configuring the Mechanical Environment

  Setting Up the Block Diagram

  Configuring the Ground and Joints

  Configuring the Bodies

  Sensing Motion and Running the Model

  For More About the Four Bar Mechanism

• Kinematics and Machine Motion State

  Degrees of Freedom

  The State of Motion

  Home, Initial, and Assembled Configurations

  For More Information

  About Body Motion

  Machine Geometry and Motion

  Reference Frames and Coordinate Systems

  Relating Coordinate Systems in Relative Motion

  Observing Body Motion in Different Coordinate Systems

  Representing Body Translations and Rotations

  About Body Orientation Representations

  Axis-Angle Representation

  Quaternion Representation

  Rotation Matrix Representation

  Euler Angle Representation

  Converting Rotation Representations

  Converting the Angular Velocity

  About the Body Orientation Examples

  Setting Up the Test Body

  Rotating the Body and Its CG CS Relative to World

  Rotating the Body Relative to Its Center of Gravity

  Creating and Rotating Body Coordinate Systems

  Right-Hand Rule

  Vector Multiplication

  Common Abbreviations

  Glossary Terms