SimMechanics™ 2.7.1

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Building Mechanical Systems
• Simulating and Analyzing Mechanical Motion
• Developing and Testing Controls
• Exporting Assemblies from CAD Systems into SimMechanics
• Multidomain Physical Modeling in Simulink

Multidomain Physical Modeling in Simulink

SimMechanics provides expanded capabilities for simulating physical systems in Simulink.

Standard Simulink blocks define a transfer function between input and output signal flows. For applications such as control systems design and signal processing, this approach is natural, practical, and functional.

Modeling interactions among components in mechanical systems requires a broader paradigm. For example, unidirectional signal flow is inadequate for modeling mechanical bodies that are exerting forces on each other.

With SimMechanics, you can create a control system as a standard unidirectional signal flow block diagram and then connect this model to a physical plant, modeled using a mixture of traditional Simulink blocks and the specialized physical modeling blocks in SimMechanics.

A complex SimMechanics model that captures the dynamics of a Stewart platform. Click on image to see enlarged view.