Configuring SimMechanics Link Settings in SolidWorks

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About the SimMechanics Link Settings Dialog Box
Reviewing, Changing, and Applying Export Settings
About the SimMechanics Link Settings Dialog Box
You can access the export settings from your SolidWorks menu bar. To open the
settings dialog box, select Settings in the SimMechanics Link menu.
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Reviewing, Changing, and Applying Export Settings
The settings dialog box contains several active areas. The Message box is inactive.
Save, Close, and Help Buttons
Click... To...
Save your settings and close the settings dialog box
Close the settings dialog box without saving your
settings
Open online SimMechanics Link help
Subassemblies Menu Box
The Solve Subassemblies Using menu allows you to choose how to export
The Solve Subassemblies Using menu allows you to choose how to export
subassemblies.
Configuring Subassemblies in SolidWorks. In SolidWorks, assemblies can have
subassemblies, which can have subsubassemblies, and so on.
A rigid subassembly is like a single rigid part, constrained to move as a single
body.
A flexible subassembly has dynamic children (parts and mates within the
subassembly), capable of moving relative to one another according to their mates.
When you select a subassembly in the SolidWorks feature tree:
Rightclick the subassembly and select the Component menu, then Properties.
An option appears that allows you to make the component Flexible or Rigid.
1.
Select Rigid (the default) if you are not interested in the motion of the parts
within the subassembly.
2.
Select Flexible if you are interested in the motion of the parts within the
subassembly.
3.
Configuring Subassemblies for Export.
If you select Component properties (the default) in the subassemblies menu,
then the exporter respects the internal SolidWorks settings; that is, Rigid or
Flexible , according to how each subassembly is configured.
If you choose Flexible settings in the subassemblies menu, then the exporters
assumes that all subassemblies are flexible regardless of the SolidWorks setting.
Selecting this option does not change the properties of subassemblies in the
CAD assembly file.
Assembly Tolerances Subdialog Box
The Assembly Tolerances subdialog box allows you to specify export tolerances.
When the exporter creates joints from SolidWorks mates, it checks for geometric
spacing and alignment, as well as relative roundoff. Instead of comparing spacing,
alignment, and relative numerical errors with zero, the exporter compares them with the
tolerances that you specify in the tolerance settings.
Field Purpose Default Unit
Linear tolerance Smallest significant length
difference
1e5 meter
(m)
Angular tolerance Smallest significant angle difference 1e5 radian
(rad)
Relative roundoff
tolerance
Smallest significant relative
numerical difference
1e12
Export Coordinate Systems Subdialog Box
The Export Coordinate Systems subdialog box allows you to choose whether and how
to export reference coordinate systems in your assembly. These reference coordinate
systems are independent of mates between parts in the assembly.
If you select Do not export coordinate systems (the default), the exporter
If you select Do not export coordinate systems (the default), the exporter
ignores any reference coordinate systems, and they do not appear in the
exported XML file.
If you select Export only CSs with this prefix , some or all of the reference
coordinate systems are exported to the XML file. The exported coordinate
systems are selected by the name prefix specified in the field below this radio
button.
If a is specified, only those reference coordinate systems whose
names begin with the are exported. The default is
If no prefix is specified and the field is blank, all reference coordinate
systems are exported.
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