HyperGraph – Plotting Contact Results

For each contact you define in MotionView, two contact REQUESTS are automatically written to the XML file for MotionSolve. As a part of its post-simulation activities, MotionSolve will write out the data associated with these REQUESTS to the output file(s) you selected.

Contact results are written to the ABF, MRF, and PLT files. The same contact information is available in each file.
  • The first REQUEST contains the net force and torque experienced by the reference MARKER associated with the I-Geometry of the contact.
  • The second REQUEST contains the net force and torque experienced by the reference MARKER associated with the J-Geometry of the contact.

For each REQUEST the following time histories are available:

F1 The magnitude of the total contact force experienced by the reference MARKER.
F2 The X-component of the total contact force experienced by the reference MARKER, as computed in the coordinate system of the RM MARKER of the REQUEST. When not specified, the RM MARKER defaults to the global coordinate system.
F3 The Y-component of the total contact force experienced by the reference MARKER, as computed in the coordinate system of the RM MARKER of the REQUEST. When not specified, the RM MARKER defaults to the global coordinate system.
F4 The Y-component of the total contact force experienced by the reference MARKER, as computed in the coordinate system of the RM MARKER of the REQUEST. When not specified, the RM MARKER defaults to the global coordinate system.
F5 The magnitude of the total contact torque experienced by the reference MARKER. The non-zero moment arm of the vector from the REFERENCE MARKER to each contact point causes this torque.
F6 The X-component of the total contact torque experienced by the reference MARKER, as computed in the coordinate system of the RM MARKER of the REQUEST. When not specified, the RM MARKER defaults to the global coordinate system.
F7 The Y-component of the total contact torque experienced by the reference MARKER, as computed in the coordinate system of the RM MARKER of the REQUEST. When not specified, the RM MARKER defaults to the global coordinate system.
F8 The Z-component of the total contact torque experienced by the reference MARKER, as computed in the coordinate system of the RM MARKER of the REQUEST. When not specified, the RM MARKER defaults to the global coordinate system.