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Represent a disassembled revolute joint with one rotational degree of freedom about misaligned axes
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Description
The Disassembled Revolute block represents a single rotational degree of freedom (DoF) along a pair of specified misaligned axes between two bodies. SimMechanics automatically assembles (aligns) the rotation axes at simulation start.
This block is disassembled: you must connect each side of the Joint block to a Body block at a Body coordinate system (CS) point, but the origins of these Body CSs do not need to be spatially collocated points or lie along a joint axis.
You can connect any Joint block to two and only two Body blocks, and Joints have a default of two Connector Ports for connecting to base and follower Bodies. The disassembled joint axes are associated with the base and follower Bodies, respectively.
You can only use a disassembled Joint block to close a loop. One loop must have no more than one disassembled joint. You cannot connect a Disassembled Joint to an Actuator or Sensor block.
Disassembled revolute axes of follower (blue) and base (red)
Dialog Box and Parameters
The dialog box has two active areas, Connection parameters and Parameters.
Connection Parameters
Disassembled Revolute base and follower Body Connector Ports
Parameters
The entries on the Axes pane are required. They specify the directions of the two misaligned axes of the rotational DoF that the Disassembled Revolute represents.
[1 0 0]
and [0 1 0]
, respectively. The axes are directed vectors whose overall signs matter.WORLD
.See Also
Disassembled Cylindrical, Disassembled Prismatic, Disassembled Spherical, Revolute
See Modeling Joints for more on representing DoFs with Disassembled Joints.
See Checking Schematic Topology and How SimMechanics Works for more on closing loops with disassembled joints.
![]() | Disassembled Prismatic | Disassembled Spherical | ![]() |