2022.1
Explore the various vehicle modeling tools.
Learn about the Soft Soil Tire model and obstacle types.
View new features for MotionView 2022.1.
Learn the basics and discover the workspace.
Discover MotionView functionality with interactive tutorials.
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multi-body Dynamics.
Explore the MotionView menus which provide access to the various wizards, dialogs, tools, and panels.
The Project Browser allows you to view the MotionView model structure while providing display and editing control of entities.
Explore the various panels and tools in MotionView.
MotionView supports the importing of several types of CAD and FE formats.
MotionView has many pre-processing and post-processing capabilities with regards to flexible bodies, or flexbodies, for multi-body dynamics models.
Solvers and translators supported in MotionView.
Tires are critical elements to modeling a vehicle’s interaction with a road, with some tire models better suited to specific simulation domains.
Since computing tire forces and moments during a vehicle simulation is one of the most costly tasks, multi-threaded execution of tire models on a multi-core computer can substantially reduce the clock time for a simulation.
Altair HyperWorks integrates the Comfort and Durability family of tire models - CDTire - from Fraunhofer ITWM. The CDTire can be used in Ride and Handling vehicle analysis focusing on comfort, durability, and vehicle dynamics.
The FIALA tire model serves as the first stepping stone in full vehicle simulation because it is simple enough to be comprehended completely by the MBD analyst. Furthermore, the forces and torques produced by the tire/road interaction use a series of physically meaningful parameters.
Altair HyperWorks integrates MF-Tyre and MF-SWIFT tire models from Siemens (branded by Siemens as Simcenter Tire).
This tire is a FE based flexible tire solution from Pratt Miller that can interact with EDEM particles representing soil, sand, gravel, and so on. The tire model requires a finite element modeling file (.bdf) and other associated files. The AutoTire entity in MotionView provides a utility to generate the required mesh files from a CAD file. The tire can then be transferred to EDEM through MotionView-EDEM coupling interface. PM-FlexTire software is available as an Altair Partner product under the Altair Units licensing system.
User Written Tire models are implemented as user subroutines that compute the tire forces and moments, and the user road model is implemented as a subroutine that computes the road height at a given point.
The Altair Soft Soil Tire model provides a way to simulate the dynamic behavior of a tire on a surface that is compressible such as clay, dry sand, regolith, and ice-covered snow.
Using the predefined obstacle templates, a variety of obstacle types can be created which are superimposed on the existing soft-soil road geometry.
Discover optimization with MotionView, MotionSolve, and HyperStudy.
Use the FMU tool to add a Functional Mock-up Unit and connect it to a multi-body model.
MotionView supports a limited version of interface with HyperWorks Collaboration Tools.
Reference material for the HyperWorks Desktop scripting interface which is a set of Tcl/Tk commands.
Reference materials for the MotionView MDL Language, Tire Modeling, and the MDL Library.
Reference material detailing command statements, model statements, functions and the Subroutine Interface available in MotionSolve.
Reference material for Templex (a general purpose text and numeric processor) and additional mathematical functions and operators.
Reference materials for the MotionView Python Language.
MotionView help for HyperWorks.
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