MotionView User's Guide

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Vehicle Modeling
Explore the various vehicle modeling tools.
Full Vehicles with Driver

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

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MotionView User's Guide

What's New
View new features for MotionView 2020.
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.
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.
- Build and Analyze Models
- Vehicle Libraries
- Components Library
- Leaf Spring Modeling
- Road Modeling
- Tire Modeling
- Full Vehicles with Driver
  - Full Vehicle with Advanced Drivers
    This section describes how to build events in the full vehicle model with advanced driver. The new event user interface is supported only for models with advanced driver. The interface exports .adf and .xml files and submits them to MotionSolve. Files can be edited or updated in the Event Editor. Sixteen event types are supported.
  - Driver Overview
    The Altair Driver is a set of MotionView models and libraries that allows MotionView users to control and script vehicle events.
  - Controllers Library
    Controllers form the core of the driver. The Controller Library has various basic controllers its arsenal as of now and will be enhanced with many advanced controllers in the near future.
  - Additional Altair Driver File Blocks
  - Altair Driver Mathematical Methods
    Altair Driver is a simple driver model. This is used in all MotionView and MotionSolve vehicle events. The controller can predict the future road path based on the current vehicle state, has knowledge of the vehicle dynamics, and has access to user-defined driver parameters.
  - Troubleshooting Driver Modeling
  - MotionView Interface
    Driver can be loaded using the Task Wizard of MDLLIB. Driver has some special requirements to interface with the vehicle model. These requirements are resolved automatically if the vehicle model is built using the Full vehicle with advanced driver option in the Model Wizard in MDLLIB.
- Road Tools
- Linear Torque Map Powertrain
- Altair Control State Equations (CSE) Powertrain
- Disk Brakes
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.

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MotionView User's Guide

Home
Vehicle Modeling
Explore the various vehicle modeling tools.
Full Vehicles with Driver

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

Index

Full Vehicles with Driver

Full Vehicle with Advanced Drivers
This section describes how to build events in the full vehicle model with advanced driver. The new event user interface is supported only for models with advanced driver. The interface exports .adf and .xml files and submits them to MotionSolve. Files can be edited or updated in the Event Editor. Sixteen event types are supported.
Driver Overview
The Altair Driver is a set of MotionView models and libraries that allows MotionView users to control and script vehicle events.
Controllers Library
Controllers form the core of the driver. The Controller Library has various basic controllers its arsenal as of now and will be enhanced with many advanced controllers in the near future.
Additional Altair Driver File Blocks
Altair Driver Mathematical Methods
Altair Driver is a simple driver model. This is used in all MotionView and MotionSolve vehicle events. The controller can predict the future road path based on the current vehicle state, has knowledge of the vehicle dynamics, and has access to user-defined driver parameters.
Troubleshooting Driver Modeling
MotionView Interface
Driver can be loaded using the Task Wizard of MDLLIB. Driver has some special requirements to interface with the vehicle model. These requirements are resolved automatically if the vehicle model is built using the Full vehicle with advanced driver option in the Model Wizard in MDLLIB.

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