Visual ModelQ
Easy. Capable. Great value.

 


Introduction to Visual ModelQ

Visual ModelQ has what you're looking for in a modeling environment. Easy to use. Easy to understand. Plenty of features. Whether you are learning how to tune a control system or studying the effects of component variation, Visual ModelQ is the tool you need. And it's the most cost effective modeling environment in its class.

Sample Visual ModelQ model: A PI control system with square-wave command.
Two Live Scopes and an RMS meter continuously update on the model diagram.
The Feedback rings, showing a low margin of
stability.


Visual ModelQ: Fifteen features

1. Graphic model entry
2. Continuously running models
3. Full-size Scopes
4. Live Scopes
5. Hot connections
6. Live Constants
7. Fast execution
8. Flexible modeling for digital systems
9. FFT-based Dynamic Signal Analyzers
10. Dial Meters
11. On-screen meters
12. Over 100 preprogrammed blocks
13. Program blocks
14. Multiple page models
15. Application documentation

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1. Graphic model entry

Just drop blocks and wire them together. Configure blocks with a few clicks. Entering Visual ModelQ models is so easy you'll be up and simulating in no time.

2. Continuously running models


Visual ModelQ models keep going, just like real systems. Tweak a gain; watch what happens. Immediately. Other environments lumber along in batches...start...wait...change a parameter...wait. Now you can skip the waiting.


3. Full-size Scopes

Visual ModelQ provides 8-channel scopes with features like auto/normal trigger, auto scaling, delayed trigger, and x vs. y mode. And it's all controlled with an intuitive panel that lets you change just about everything while the model keeps running.

4. Live Scopes

A complement to full-size scopes, Live Scopes plot right on your model diagram. They have lots of features: single shot, AC triggering and coupling, auto scaling. Live Scopes can be resized, even while your model is running. And they are configured with their own intuitive control panels.

5. Hot connections

Modellers like to iterate. Try this...watch that. Sometimes you get surprised. That's what hot connections are for. Live Scopes can hot connect to any wire...any block...any time. The simulation doesn't miss a step.

6. Live Constants

Change parameters while the model keeps running with Live Constants. Just double click and adjust. Live Constants have six different adjustment so you can jump a wide span or just tweak a gain in.

7. Fast execution

Visual ModelQ compiles and runs fast. The compilation process is so fast, it's usually undetectable. And models are fully net listed to speed execution.

8. Flexible modeling for digital systems

Visual ModelQ provides digital control laws, digital filters, and the ability to run as many sample rates at one time as you need. Filter gains are recalculated each time the sample rate is changed...even while the model is running.

9. FFT-based dynamic signal analyzers

The frequency domain is important to designers and here, no tool is more useful than the Bode plot. That's why Visual ModelQ provides the dynamic signal analyzer that gives Bode plots with a click.

10. Dial Meters

Easy-to-use dial meters provide a continuously updated display of any signal on your model diagram. You get complete control of the display including dial size, min and max range, and label fonts. Choose needle, dial face, and label colors.

11. On-screen meters

Drop a meter on the screen and receive continuous updates. Read root-mean square (RMS), average, or even the magnitude and phase of a harmonic.

12. Over 150 preprogrammed blocks

Visual ModelQ provides more than 150 preprogrammed blocks: control laws, filters, waveforms, math, digital functions, comparators, analog switches, Boolean logic, instruments...the list goes on.

For a complete list of blocks, check out the Visual ModelQ Reference Manual.

13. Program blocks

When standard blocks don't quite do the job, write your own. Program blocks support a subset of the C programming language including algebraic and Boolean math, if/else if/else, curly brackets, and all the standard math functions.

For more detail check out the Visual ModelQ User's Manual.

14. Multiple pages

With Visual ModelQ, you can split you model into as many pages as you need. Connecting between pages is easy and you can title each page to organize your model.

15. Application documentation

Visual ModelQ provides permanent space for application-specific documentation in just about every block. You can inform your colleagues (or just remind yourself later) why you did what you did.

 

Build and Tune your own Visual ModelQ Model!

The following training presentations provides an introduction to Visual ModelQ.

Building a PI Controller

See how you can build up your own Visual ModelQ model in just a few minutes!


Tuning a PI Controller

Tune the control gains in the model you built in the previous unit.

 

Variation of Plant Gain

Investigate how variation in plant gain affects your system.

 

Regenerative voltage in servo systems


Download and technical documentation for Visual ModelQ

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Click here to register Visual ModelQ

Click here to view the Visual ModelQ Reference Manual

Click here to view the Visual ModelQ User's Manual


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