Mechanism-Editor
What is a Mechanism-Editor?
A Mechanism element defines the workspace of one Mechanism-Editor. The Mechanism-Editor of the Mechanism element includes the Mechanism name-tab, the graphics-area, the XY-axes, and the Base-Part. To add a Mechanism element, you must select a Plane. There is no limit to the number of Mechanism elements you can add to your model. |
Why add a Mechanism-Editor?
You can add nearly all of the other element-types only to Mechanism-Editors. You MUST use the Model-Editor to add at least one Mechanism-Editor. |
Mechanism-Editor workspace
 Mechanism-Editor- Example |
Graphics-area : to which you add Kinematic and Machine elements, Kinematic and Modeling Function-Blocks, Solids, Force elements, and other elements. Name-tabs : each Mechanism-Editor has a name tab. |
Menus and Toolbars:
The commands in each toolbar are also in the Mechanism menu, Function-Blocks menu, Forces menu, and MD-Solids menu.
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Model elements toolbar - left of the graphics-area - add Planes and add Mechanism-Editors to Planes Kinematic elements toolbar - left of the graphics-area - add the basic kinematic elements to build kinematic-chains Machine elements toolbar - left of the graphics-area - add more complex functional parts to your model Kinematic Function-Blocks toolbar - right of the graphics-area - plan and measure the motion of each kinematic-chain Modeling Function-Blocks toolbar - above the graphics-area - tools that help you do more complex modeling Force elements toolbar - right of the graphics-area - measure force, torque, and power that is required to drive each kinematic-chain MD-Solids toolbar - above the graphics-area - add Solid elements as Extrusions that are extruded from sketch-loops |