SimMechanics

Creating a Custom Machine Visualization

Note    This section assumes that Virtual Reality Toolbox is installed on your system and that you are familiar with it and with creating virtual worlds. Refer to the Virtual Reality Toolbox User's Guide for full details on installing and using this toolbox.

You can bypass the visualization features built into SimMechanics and create a machine animation in a virtual world of your own design. This gives you the power to animate a more realistic visualization of your machine. You create a virtual world, populate it with bodies represented as virtual objects using the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), then interface the virtual world with your SimMechanics model. Creating your own virtual animation requires a new or existing virtual world for your model and an interface between them.

This section explains how to use a separately created virtual world with SimMechanics:

• Creating Virtual Worlds for SimMechanics Models
• Interfacing SimMechanics with Virtual Worlds

Changing the Observer's Viewpoint

Creating Virtual Worlds for SimMechanics Models