User`s guide

8 Simulink 3D Animation Stand-Alone Viewer
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Orbisnap Viewer
What is Orbisnap?
The Simulink 3D Animation product includes Orbisnap. Orbisnap is a free, optional,
stand-alone VRML97 viewer that does not require you to have either the MATLAB or
Simulink 3D Animation products running. You can use Orbisnap to:
• View prerecorded WRL animation files. For example, you might want to show
prerecorded animation files in a meeting at which you do not have access to the
MATLAB or Simulink 3D Animation products.
• Remotely view, from a client machine, a virtual world loaded in a current session of
the Simulink 3D Animation product. For example, if you want to visualize a virtual
world active in a Simulink 3D Animation session that is running on a computer in
another part of the building, or across the network. This functionality allows you to
remotely view a simulation, but not control it.
• View and navigate, but not simulate, a VRML world. You can navigate, render, and
otherwise visualize a VRML world without simulating it.
• View virtual worlds using stereoscopic vision.
Orbisnap is multiplatform. You can run Orbisnap on any of the platforms that the
Simulink 3D Animation product supports. You do not need a MathWorks license to run
Orbisnap.