MapleSim™ 2 introduces extraordinary 3-D visualization and animation tools which easily transform multibody models into realistic animations, providing greater insight into the system behavior. It also provides tools for managing results from multiple simulations, simplifying a notoriously tedious and confusing task.

3-D Visualization and Animations
With MapleSim 2, you can easily transform your multibody models into realistic animations. These animations make it substantially easier to validate the system diagram and give greater insight into your system behavior. Because the animations are comprehensible to a wider audience, they can even help make your project presentations more effective.

• Multibody mechanisms are automatically rendered as “ball and stick” 3-D models for easy visualization of the topology and dynamic behavior of your system. No extra steps are required.
• You can add more realism to animations by providing STL 3-D shape files from CAD systems for the components.
• Playback controls, including a slider for frame-by-frame control of the animation, make it easy to closely examine. significant behavior.
• Camera motion controls, such as panning, zooming, tumbling, and tracking, let you focus on areas of interest.
• Force and torque vector indicators are included in the animation to aid in the interpretation of the system behavior.
• A path tracking component allows you to trace the motion of a point of interest in the animation.

Results Management Tools
Managing results from multiple simulations can be tedious and confusing. MapleSim simplifies this task and reduces the risk of mistakes by providing tools to manage these results.

• Results from each simulation are saved and given a unique identifier, allowing easy access to all results.
• Previously generated simulation graphs and animations can be viewed without re-executing simulations.
• Results from different simulations can be placed side-by-side or overlaid for easy comparison.
• Simulation results can be manually or automatically stored with the model, so they remain accessible from one MapleSim session to another.
• Results can be given meaningful descriptions, deleted, and exported to data files.