VisSim 7.0
Samir Khan
Product Specialist
For many years now we’ve been singing the praises of VisSim,
the block diagram based software for modelling and simulating complex,
nonlinear dynamic control systems. Now we can report on a soon to be
released new version that offers users even more for their money.
We like VisSim because its intuitive, visual block diagram interface offers
the simplest method we know for constructing, modifying and maintaining
even the most complex system models. It’s
a complete, integrated, Windows desktop environment where you can perform
all your design and simulation tasks without writing a line of code – and
that, we believe, is a very big plus!
Because you can set up, test and optimise systems in
software before committing to a hardware prototype, you save prototyping
costs and get to market faster with VisSim. And most VisSim users regard
it as a product lifecycle management tool as well, developing their models
to ensure optimal quality and efficiency of the system or process throughout
its life.
Despite its success and longevity, VisSim’s
developers are still an independent, smallscale and highly responsive team,
working closely with users to add, improve and refine features that they’ve
asked for. That’s why you don’t
get frequent new versions of VisSim – but when you
do, there’s real value added.
For example, in VisSim 7 there’s a new block that meets
the needs of many users to plot 3D surfaces and curves in different modes.
It lets you plot the entire surface at once so you can watch changes over
time; or step by step to plot parametric surfaces. You can change plot
parameters such as lighting and colouring; and produce a waterfall plot
with surface and plane modes.
An exciting development is the ability to
create virtual reality models for the Web with VisSim 7, by animating and
coding scenes in VRML format. New Animate and Scene control blocks (mesh3D,
light3D, camera3D and animate3D) let you present 3D objects as DirectX
meshes (.x files) or VRML scenes.
The new version also offers
additional matrix operation and random distribution (log normal, Poisson)
blocks; and some existing blocks now offer more types of operation (for
example, “Complex” has
been added to the timeDelay block and “scaledInt” to the min/max
block).
Of course there’s
a lot more in VisSim 7, such as serial port data read/write, and embedded
target support. Our technical experts will be pleased to tell you more.
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