Simulating a solidworks model

Lynxmotion Legged Robots
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Hi!

Has anyone ever tried to simulate a solidworks model?
I mean you draw it and then move it around in solidworks with an external
program like matlab?

Any help would be great

Cluoiset

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Hi,

That’s exactly what I want to achieve with Pro-Engineer, but I haven’t started the work yet. I believe Matlab has a CAD translator which is installed to integrate the Solid works or any CAD environment inside Matlab. Matlab then uses a toolbox named as “SimMechanics” which communicates with the CAD model. It’s Simulink based.

I am not sure whether you’d be able to simulate the model inside the solid works or not, but according to my knowledge the CAD model once imported in SimMechanics in Matlab can then be simulated with matlab programs.

Keep this thread alive as we may have a lot of work to do in collaboration. :slight_smile:

BTW, what is your bot ? a crawler or a biped?

Regards,
Umar

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Thanks for the help! I will look into it. I didn’t know about this simmechanics toolbox. Do you know perhaps where can i find some examples?

My robot is a six legged walker.
I hope this thread stays alive too!

Thanks for the help!

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Hi,

SimMechanics is available in the toolboxes of Matlab. If you have Matlab installed, you can check from the matlab help. As far as examples are concerned, matlab help is sufficient enough to get started. I am attaching a snapshot of the help included in my sim mechanics.

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Here you see, the matlab help speaks of almost every aspect of modeling, kinetics&kinematics and its control through matlab. See the sections I have enclosed in red boxes, they might be of our focus in particular.SimMechanics is a powerful toolbox for matlab which is capable of determining the kinematics of mechanisms and machines, so I believe it would serve a great deal in determining the IK for a hexapod.

BTW, good to hear about your hexapod, I am working for a hexapod too, I believe we can work a little in collaboration :slight_smile:

Regards,
Umar

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Hi!

This is awesome. I only ran through a few tutorials but they look great. The best thing is that they do not have any restristions like labview.
I think this would be a great solution.
But I’m not too good at Matlab…but I will try to make the best out of this.

Regards,
Cluoiset