SimMechanics

Visualizing and Animating Machines

You can visualize your machine's bodies in SimMechanics with two different tools. One tool is based on Handle Graphics, a built-in feature of MATLAB. The other uses an internal SimMechanics interface to the optional Virtual Reality Toolbox. You can also construct your own virtual worlds and interface them to SimMechanics.

Choosing Visualization Options in SimMechanics
Different ways that SimMechanics renders and animates component rigid bodies of machines

Rendering Body Shapes in SimMechanics
Understanding and choosing body shapes for machine components visualizations

Viewing Machines with Handle Graphics
Viewing machine bodies in SimMechanics with MATLAB Handle Graphics

Viewing Machines in Virtual Reality
Viewing machine bodies in SimMechanics with Virtual Reality Toolbox

Creating a Custom Machine Visualization
Building an interface from SimMechanics to an external virtual world machine representation

SimMechanics Limitations Choosing Visualization Options in SimMechanics

Choosing Visualization Options in SimMechanics	Different ways that SimMechanics renders and animates component rigid bodies of machines
Rendering Body Shapes in SimMechanics	Understanding and choosing body shapes for machine components visualizations
Viewing Machines with Handle Graphics	Viewing machine bodies in SimMechanics with MATLAB Handle Graphics
Viewing Machines in Virtual Reality	Viewing machine bodies in SimMechanics with Virtual Reality Toolbox
Creating a Custom Machine Visualization	Building an interface from SimMechanics to an external virtual world machine representation