Opening Mechanics Module - simphysoftwares/SimPHY-docs GitHub Wiki

Mechanics toolbar can be opened by clicking on the highlighted icon. Hovering over any icon gives us brief description (or name) of that icon.

MECHANICS MODULE

After clicking over it you will see a sub-toolbar opens up just below where you will find following:

  1. Bodies toolbar : To select and create different body shapes like rigid walls and ground at any angle, ring, disc, oval, ellipse, polygons etc with accurate dimensions.
  2. Joint toolbar : To provide constraint motion to bodies, Simphy has Joints toolbar including Rope, Pulley, Hinge, Weld, Prismatic Joints, etc.
  3. Visualization toolbar : To visualize various aspects of the simulations like Frame of Reference (Camera Tool), Velocity (Tracer Tool), Graphs (Graph Tool) to plot accurate data, Timer, Force Diagram (FBD Tool), etc.
  4. Tools: To create miscellaneous objects like Chain, Body from Text/Image/Gesture, Constructive Geometry, etc.
  5. Additional Settings : Consists of 3 categories; World settings (to change Gravity and Air Drag), Simulation settings and Solver settings (which usually do not require any adjustments)