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About the Visualization Window |
The visualization window is an integral part of SimMechanics software. With it, you can visualize your machines using a comprehensive set of display controls, interact with your model, and watch and record animations.
The window uses a distinctive set of symbols and shapes to display bodies and Body coordinate systems (CSs). This section is an overview of what you can do with the SimMechanics window.
Caution The SimMechanics visualization window resembles a MATLAB® Graphics figure window. But it is not a feature of MATLAB and has no figure handle. |
Starting visualization and choosing the default display options are discussed in About SimMechanics Visualization in the Introducing Visualization and Animation chapter.
Once you configure your SimMechanics model for visualization, select Update Diagram from the model's Edit menu (or press Ctrl+D).
The window opens and displays the machines in your model that you have chosen to visualize. One window displays all selected machines simultaneously.
To synchronize the static visualization display with your model, reselect Update Diagram at any time.
This figure shows a model with the default background color.
SimMechanics Visualization Window Displaying a Four-Cylinder Engine (Isometric View)
Once you open the visualization window, you have two ways to control the display and carry out these tasks:
Use the buttons in the toolbar. Every feature on this toolbar occurs in the menus, although the reverse is not true. See Visualization Toolbar and Its Controls following.
Use the menus in the menu bar. The menu contains specialized items and submenus. See SimMechanics Visualization Menus and Their Controls following.
Note Changing the display settings using the visualization window controls changes only your immediate view in the display window. By itself, it does not change the visualization settings in the model. If you want to save a change in the visualization window settings to the model, and thus change the model's visualization settings, see Communicating with the Model from the Visualization Window following. |
You can activate or change most visualization features by selecting buttons on the window toolbar, instead of selecting items from the menus. The setting changes initiated by the toolbar are the same as the corresponding menu actions: either you activate a feature, enable or disable a feature, or initiate an immediate action.
Hovering your mouse cursor over a toolbar button displays the button's tooltip indicating its function.
SimMechanics Toolbar Buttons
You can access all of the toolbar functions in the menus as an alternative. The toolbar reproduces most of the menu functions.
See SimMechanics Visualization Menus and Their Controls following for a complete overview of the visualization window controls.
 | Getting Started with the Visualization Window | Controlling Body and Body Component Display |  |
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