User`s guide

View Virtual Worlds Remotely with Orbisnap

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View Virtual Worlds Remotely with Orbisnap

To view virtual worlds from the Simulink 3D Animation server in Orbisnap, you must

have

• The MATLAB software running a Simulink 3D Animation server session

• The version of the Simulink 3D Animation server to which you want to connect must

be compatible with the Orbisnap version you are running. For example, you cannot

connect Orbisnap to Simulink 3D Animation software Version 3.1.

• Network access between the client computer (running Orbisnap) and host computer

(running MATLAB and Simulink 3D Animation server)

Note If you expect Orbisnap to access a virtual world on the Simulink 3D Animation

server from a remote computer, you must make that virtual world available for

Internet viewing. In the Simulink 3D Animation Viewer for the virtual world you

want to make available, select Simulation > Block Parameters, select the Allow

viewing from the Internet check box, then click OK.

Note the following when using Orbisnap remotely:

• Although you can visualize a virtual world from the Simulink 3D Animation server

in Orbisnap, any navigation or rendering in one viewer is not reflected in the other.

For example, any navigation you do on the virtual world in Orbisnap is not reflected

in the virtual world in the Simulink 3D Animation <olink localinfo="sViewer, and vice

versa.

• You cannot start or stop a simulation of the virtual world in Orbisnap. You can see

a simulation on Orbisnap only if the virtual world is simulated in the Simulink 3D

Animation server.

• The simulation might slow when you connect Orbisnap remotely to the Simulink 3D

Animation server.

Start Orbisnap. For example, in Windows, double-click orbisnap.bat in

matlabroot\toolbox\sl3d\orbisnap\bin.

This is an Orbisnap starter file that calls the Orbisnap executable. Orbisnap is

displayed.

In Orbisnap, select File > Connect to Server.

The Connect to Server dialog is displayed.