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Translational Port

Purpose

Add translational flange to subsystem

Library

Mechanical / Translational / Components

Description

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Translational ports are used to establish translational mechanical connections between a schematic and the subschematic of a subsystem. If you copy a Translational Port block into the schematic of a subsystem a terminal will be created on the subsystem block. The name of the port block will appear as the terminal label. If you choose to hide the block name by unselecting the show name option in the block menu the terminal label will also disappear.

Terminals can be moved around the edges of the subsystem by holding down the Shift key while dragging the terminal with the left mouse button or by using the middle mouse button.


Note  Since you cannot make mechanical connections in Simulink, PLECS does not permit to place translational ports blocks into top-level schematics.