Spring bodies of my custom actuator design are not showing in simulink simscape

Hi,

I am trying to model my variable stiffness actuator that I designed with CAD programs. When I imported my design from SolidWorks to simscape multibody via SolidWorks to Multibody tool, the model simscape multibody built is not showing the spring bodies. Every other components are there but not the spring bodies.

This is my first time using Simscape Multibody. I did some research, some of the answers were about the inertial data. But when I check the inertial parameters, I saw they already set by simscape.

I am posting some images, can someone help me please?

Answer 1

[Divyanshu]

Hi Burak,

In order to find the root cause of the issue, model files and exact reproductions steps are required.

However, you can refer the following documentation links which specify step-wise procedure to generate XML and geometry files from SolidWorks CAD assembly and importing it to Simscape Multibody using 'smimport' function:

• Generation of XML from SolidWorks Model - https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2023b/smlink/ug/export-robot-assembly-from-solidworks-software.html
• Importing SolidWorks Model to Multibody - https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2023b/sm/ug/import-robot-arm-model.html
• 'smimport' - https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2023b/sm/ref/smimport.html

Hope it helps!