MotionView User's Guide

2020.1

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MotionView Menus
Explore the MotionView menus which provide access to the various wizards, dialogs, tools, and panels.
Macros Menu
The Macros menu contains many utilities for use with MDL models.

What's New
Get Started
Tutorials
MotionView Overview
MotionView Menus
Project Browser
MotionView Panels
MotionView CAD Interfacing
Flexible Bodies
MotionView Solver Interfacing
Vehicle Modeling
Optimization
Functional Mockup Unit (FMU)
MotionView Interface with Collaboration Tools
Tcl/Tk Reference Guide
MDL Reference Guide
MotionSolve Reference Guide
Templex and Math Reference Guide
MotionView Python Reference Guide (Beta)

2020.1

MotionView User's Guide

What's New
View new features for MotionView 2020.1.
Get Started
Learn the basics and discover the workspace.
Tutorials
Discover MotionView functionality with interactive tutorials.
MotionView Overview
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multi-body Dynamics.
MotionView Menus
Explore the MotionView menus which provide access to the various wizards, dialogs, tools, and panels.
- SolverMode Menu
  The topics/motionview/solver_mode_r.html sets the current the active solver for MotionView.
- Model Menu
  The Model menu provides access to several wizards and dialogs.
- Analysis Menu
  The Analysis menu provides access to the Task Wizard and View Reports dialogs.
- Tools Menu
  The MotionView Tools menu allows you to check a model for errors, select a writer and user mode, and access such panels as Reports, Templex Functions, and Options.
- FlexTools Menu
  The FlexTools menu provides access to Flex Prep, Flex File Gen, Fatigue Prep, and Load Export.
- EDEM Menu
  The EDEM menu provides access to tools related to the MotionSolve - EDEM cosimulation interface.
- Macros Menu
  The Macros menu contains many utilities for use with MDL models.
  - Create Points
    The Create Points macro enables you to create entire sets of points using a variety of methods.
  - Calculate Angles
    The Calculate angles macro enables you to calculate spatial and planar angles between points.
  - Find Connected Entities
    This tool allows you to find entities which are connected to a selected entity (body, joint, or bushing).
  - Create Deformable Surfaces from FEM
    The Create Deformable Surface From FEM macro enables you to quickly create a matrix of explicit markers to be used in defining a deformable surface.
  - Contact Properties Editor
    The Contact Properties Editor macro enables you to edit multiple contact force entities in a model simultaneously.
  - Create Curve From Points/Nodes/Edges/Faces
    The Create Curve From Points/Nodes/Edges/Faces macro allows you to create curve graphics from a set of selected points or nodes, or extract a curve from an edge/face of a geometry represented through CADGraphics.
- Metadata File Generation
  A metadata file is automatically generated when you save the active MDL model as an ADAMS or MotionSolve deck or you run a solver analysis on the active model.
- Metadata File Format
  The metadata file consists of multiple data blocks denoted by keyword pairs.
Project Browser
The Project Browser allows you to view the MotionView model structure while providing display and editing control of entities.
MotionView Panels
Explore the various panels and tools in MotionView.
MotionView CAD Interfacing
MotionView supports the importing of several types of CAD and FE formats.
Flexible Bodies
MotionView has many pre-processing and post-processing capabilities with regards to flexible bodies, or flexbodies, for multi-body dynamics models.
MotionView Solver Interfacing
Solvers and translators supported in MotionView.
Vehicle Modeling
Explore the various vehicle modeling tools.
Optimization
Discover optimization with MotionView, MotionSolve, and HyperStudy.
Functional Mockup Unit (FMU)
Learn more about the Functional Mockup Unit (FMU) in MotionView and MotionSolve.
MotionView Interface with Collaboration Tools
MotionView supports a limited version of interface with HyperWorks Collaboration Tools.
Tcl/Tk Reference Guide
Reference material for the HyperWorks Desktop scripting interface which is a set of Tcl/Tk commands.
MDL Reference Guide
Reference materials for the MotionView MDL Language, Tire Modeling, and the MDL Library.
MotionSolve Reference Guide
Reference material detailing command statements, model statements, functions and the Subroutine Interface available in MotionSolve.
Templex and Math Reference Guide
Reference material for Templex (a general purpose text and numeric processor) and additional mathematical functions and operators.
MotionView Python Reference Guide (Beta)
Reference materials for the MotionView Python Language.

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MotionView User's Guide

2020.1

Home
MotionView Menus
Explore the MotionView menus which provide access to the various wizards, dialogs, tools, and panels.
Macros Menu
The Macros menu contains many utilities for use with MDL models.

What's New
Get Started
Tutorials
MotionView Overview
MotionView Menus
Project Browser
MotionView Panels
MotionView CAD Interfacing
Flexible Bodies
MotionView Solver Interfacing
Vehicle Modeling
Optimization
Functional Mockup Unit (FMU)
MotionView Interface with Collaboration Tools
Tcl/Tk Reference Guide
MDL Reference Guide
MotionSolve Reference Guide
Templex and Math Reference Guide
MotionView Python Reference Guide (Beta)

Macros Menu

The Macros menu contains many utilities for use with MDL models.

The following options can be accessed from this menu:

Create Points
The Create Points macro enables you to create entire sets of points using a variety of methods.
Calculate Angles
The Calculate angles macro enables you to calculate spatial and planar angles between points.
Find Connected Entities
This tool allows you to find entities which are connected to a selected entity (body, joint, or bushing).
Create Deformable Surfaces from FEM
The Create Deformable Surface From FEM macro enables you to quickly create a matrix of explicit markers to be used in defining a deformable surface.
Contact Properties Editor
The Contact Properties Editor macro enables you to edit multiple contact force entities in a model simultaneously.
Create Curve From Points/Nodes/Edges/Faces
The Create Curve From Points/Nodes/Edges/Faces macro allows you to create curve graphics from a set of selected points or nodes, or extract a curve from an edge/face of a geometry represented through CADGraphics.

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