Mechatronic design practice was conceived as various successive steps involving expertise. However, employers expect recently graduated engineers to start working with the shortest training period. This paper reports a research that developed a simulation tool that introduces modifications and additions to the regular methods of dynamic simulation, integrating in it several of the steps of the systematic mechanic design. The design tool encompasses for each element or object of the simulator seven new features that in an intelligent way gives the student a little design practical expertise. The connection between elements follows the method by wires and the window of assembly includes a workspace where the 3D depiction of all elements is seen and animated according to the values of the variables. The concept was prototyped and now all technological components are available to start the development of a product. This concept, due to the volume of information that it uses, instead of being attractive to cover all fields of knowledge is valuable to adapt to specific fields as academic courses. Potential users evaluated the attractiveness of the concept through a work section, giving good indicators.
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Engineering and Information Technology
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FuenteInternational Journal of Simulation Modelling