101: Modeling A Simple Sorting Machine - Or my very first look at twin

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Level	Beginner
Duration	approx. 30 minutes
Prerequisites	- twin Professional (Installation instructions). - Use the project SortingMachine from the tutorials folder.

In this tutorial, we will prepare and kinematize a machine consisting of a conveyor belt, a cylinder, a light barrier, and two types of workpieces — one short and one long. The goal is to set up the machine so that it can be programmed in the next steps to sort the short and long workpieces. Together, we will:

1. Add workpieces
2. Add relevant objects to the physics simulation
3. Make the workpieces move along the conveyor belt
4. Kinematize the cylinder
5. Position a light barrier
6. Create sources for our workpieces
7. Add a control panel to manually trigger the workpieces

After completing the kinematization and programming the sequences (which is shown in the next tutorial), this is how our machine will run:

Note

Please note that this is a very basic tutorial. We will not use the whole range of functionality and we will make some simplifications which would make no sense in a real project. Nevertheless you will learn how easily you can create very complex machines with twin.

Next

The tutorial starts in the next chapter.