Hydromagic Excavator Simulator Plugin

The Hydromagic Excavator Simulator Plugin is a plugin with graphical user interface designed to simulate typical excavator hardware. This allows you to test drive or demonstrate the software without the need to connect actual hardware.

With the simulator you will be able to simulate the following input values:

• Boom vertical angle;
• Stick vertical angle;
• Bucket vertical angle
• Tilt-X of the cabin;
• Tilt-Y of the cabin;
• Rotation of the cabin.

It is possible to simulate tide as well, using the manual tide plugin. This simulator can be used in Hydromagic Dredging (although it can be loaded in Hydromagic Survey, it doesn't make sense to do that).

Loading the excavator simulator plugin

To load this plugin, open the preferences window by selecting "Preferences..." from the "Options" menu. In the window that appears, select the "Devices" tab. Next click the "Add..." button.

In the preferences window, select the "Devices" tab.

A list of available plugins will be displayed. In this list, select the "Hydromagic Excavator Simulator Plugin" and click "OK" to load and display the simulator.

Select the "Hydromagic Excavator Simulator Plugin" from the list.

Using the simulator

In order to start pushing the simulator data into the application, click the "Start" button. To stop the simulation press "Stop". When started, the simulator will send angle data with 100 millisecond intervals.

Control excavator angles using the simulator.

Unloading the simulator

To unload the simulator, open the preferences window by selecting "Preferences..." from the "Options" menu. In the window that appears, select the "Devices" tab. Next select the "Hydromagic Excavator Simulator Plugin" and click the "Remove..." button.

Click the "Remove" button to unload the simulator plugin.

Video Tutorial

The following YouTube video tutorial shows how to use the "Hydromagic Excavator Simulator" . Click below to play the video. When you like the video, please click the like button and subscribe so you will receive an update when new video tutorials on Hydromagic are uploaded.

Use the Hydromagic Excavator Simulator to test your excavator or backhoe configuration.