Surfaces
The Surfaces tool allows you to create surfaces for use with advanced joint entities.
Create Surfaces
Edit Surfaces
The surface entity allows you to describe a parametric surface for use with advanced joints like point to surface joints, curve to surface joints, and the surface to surface joints. The surface can be described by a user subroutine for the MotionSolve and ADAMS solvers, and by a Parasolid reference for the ADAMS solver.
User-Defined Properties for a Surface
If desired, define the output using the User-Defined tab, which will allow you to specify the properties of the surface using user subroutines.
- From the Connectivity tab, activate the User-defined properties option.
- Click the Properties tab.
- Enter the initial and final values in the U and V directions.
- Click the User-Defined tab.
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Define the user subroutine.
Define the Properties of a Surface Using the ADAMS Solver Mode
In the ADAMS solver mode (non user-defined), the properties tab allows you to select a graphics and Parasolid file.
- From the Properties tab, click the Graphic file browser icon and select the file to display in the MotionView window.
- Click the Parasolid file browser icon and select the file used by ADAMS to describe the parametric surface.