How Does MapleSim Compare?

Simscape^™

MapleSim presents a more appropriate solution for physical modeling than Simscape^™. It is a true acausal modeling environment, where the solver determines the direction of energy flow at simulation time. On the other hand, Simscape^™ users must guide the solver by providing information about casualization, which is burdensome and limits model robustness.

The Simscape^™ modeling language is proprietary, whereas MapleSim is based on the open-standard Modelica modeling language, so you can leverage the growing collection of industry-tested Modelica components in your own projects. What’s more, with Modelica, models and components are open and object-oriented, making them easy to reuse, customize, share, and extend to suit your exact needs. But MapleSim is more than just Modelica – it’s Modelica “Plus”, consisting of an entire platform for modeling, simulation, and analysis, where Modelica provides the component and model description. MapleSim provides:

• Open, object-oriented system-level modeling language
• Custom components that automatically generate corresponding Modelica code
• Flexible Modelica multidomain framework

MapleSim, coupled with Maple, is based on a symbolic computation engine, meaning that you can investigate models in ways not possible with Simscape^™. You can even create custom components right from their unsimplified governing equations – MapleSim does all the work to incorporate them into your model. You can:

• Create custom components directly from their equations
• Take advantage of the world’s most powerful symbolic and numeric math engine
• View and manipulate system-level equations, even for multibody and multidomain systems

MapleSim produces the fastest auto-generated model code, and the code is completely royalty-free. You can achieve real-time the first time, without sacrificing fidelity in your system-level models. MapleSim’s fast model code can be exported as S-functions, making MapleSim the best physical modeling solution for Simulink^®. With MapleSim:

• Best core symbolics generates extremely fast model code
• No more hand-coding: save time and eliminate errors with automatic code generation for custom components
• Pass your work down the toolchain: provide downstream engineers with fast and accurate exported models, including S-functions, C code, FMI, and more
• Royalty free exported code

Simscape is a trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.