User`s guide

1 Getting Started
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Simulink 3D Animation Product Description
Animate, visualize, and interact with models in 3D
Simulink 3D Animation provides apps for linking Simulink models and MATLAB
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algorithms to 3D graphics objects. It lets you visualize and verify dynamic system
behavior in a virtual reality environment. Objects are represented in the Virtual Reality
Modeling Language (VRML), a standard 3D modeling language. You can animate a 3D
world by changing position, rotation, scale, and other object properties during desktop or
real-time simulation. You can also inject virtual sensor signals and access 3D animation
data in Simulink or MATLAB for post-processing.
Simulink 3D Animation includes viewers for rendering and interacting with virtual
scenes. With the 3D World Editor, you can author detailed scenes assembled from 3D
models exported from CAD-based or web-based sources. You can incorporate multiple 3D
scene views inside MATLAB figures and interact with these views via a force-feedback
joystick, space mouse, or other hardware device.
Key Features
• Simulink blocks and MATLAB apps and functions for connecting models to virtual
reality worlds
• 3D World Editor for authoring 3D worlds
• Viewers for 3D model visualization
• Video recording and animation playback
• Visualization of real-time simulations
• Remote access to simulations via standalone viewers or web browsers
• Interaction with 3D views via a joystick, space mouse, or other hardware device