When motions of a mechanical system are computed, there are cases where we want to verify the motions by means of animations. While various languages and software can be used to make animations, this tutorial explains how to make simple animations of rigid body motions with MATLAB, which is quite popular among engineers.

For example, we can make animations like the following. It is assumed that the motion data are available. MATLAB codes in this tutorial have been tested with MATLAB R2017b.