Engineers can reuse custom parts and mechanisms in their new designs, shortening the modeling process.
With SimMechanics, engineers in industries such as aerospace and defense, automotive, and industrial machinery and automation can model 3D mechanical systems in a Simulink block diagram using bodies, joints, constraints, and force elements. SimMechanics models can be connected to Simscape and other Simulink products for physical modeling, such as SimElectronics and SimHydraulics. This helps engineers identify integration issues between electrical, mechanical, and control systems early in the development process, before building the physical hardware.
Some of the main features are:
- Definition of rigid bodies using standard geometries and custom extrusions defined in MATLAB for the rapid prototyping of mechanical parts
- Automatic calculation of mass and inertia tensors to ensure accurate models
- Visualization and animation of multibody system dynamics with 3D geometry enabling rapid analysis of simulation results
- Ability to input exact and approximate state goals to simplify initial state specification
- Block diagram representation to clearly document connections with other parts
- Simulink libraries for sharing and reusing parts and mechanisms
