SimMechanics

Visualizing with Virtual Reality

Note    This optional feature requires the Virtual Reality Toolbox to be installed on your MATLAB path.

To choose the Virtual Reality-based visualization tool, follow the previous steps for Handle Graphics, but change the Draw machine using choice:

1. Open the Mechanical Environment Settings dialog box and click the Visualization tab.
2. Use the Draw machine using menu to select Virtual Reality Toolbox.
3. Now click Apply or OK to reapply your visualization choices.
4. A virtual reality viewer, displaying a virtual scene, appears.

The displayed figure depends on the body representation you choose. The equivalent ellipsoid looks like this.

The next tutorial shows how to create, run, and visualize a model for a more complex machine, a four bar mechanism. To configure Ground, Body, and Joint blocks now means repeating and expanding upon the three blocks of the first two tutorials.

Visualizing with Handle Graphics

A Four Bar Mechanism