SimMechanics

Connection Port

Create a Connector Port for a subsystem

Library

Utilities

Description

The Connection Port block, placed inside a subsystem composed of SimMechanics blocks, creates a SimMechanics open round Connector Port on the boundary of the subsystem. Once connected to a Connection Line, the Port becomes solid .

You connect individual SimMechanics blocks and subsystems made of SimMechanics blocks to one another with SimMechanics Connection Lines, instead of normal Simulink signal lines. These are anchored at the open, round Connector Ports . Subsystems constructed out of SimMechanics blocks automatically have such open round Connector Ports. You can add additional Connector Ports by adding Connection Port blocks to your subsystem.

Drag and drop a Connection Port block into the parent SimMechanics subsystem to create a Connector that parent subsystem's boundary.

Dialog Box and Parameters

Port number

This field labels the subsystem Connector Port created by this block. Multiple Connector Ports on the boundary of a single subsystem require different numbers as labels. The default value for the first Port is 1.

Port location on parent subsystem

Choose here on which side of the parent subsystem boundary the Port is placed. The choices are left or right. The default choice is left.

See Also

In Simulink, see Creating Subsystems.

Bushing

Constraint & Driver Sensor