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Flexible Bodies
MotionView has many pre-processing and post-processing capabilities with regards to flexible bodies, or flexbodies, for multi-body dynamics models.
Using Multi-body Dynamics Flexbodies
MotionView has many pre-processing and post-processing capabilities with regards to flexible bodies, or flexbodies, for multi-body dynamics models.
Flexbody Theory and Flexbody Flow
Using Flexbodies for Fatigue

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
HyperWorks MotionView Help

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2022.2

MotionView

What's New
View new features for MotionView 2022.2.
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.
- Using Multi-body Dynamics Flexbodies
  MotionView has many pre-processing and post-processing capabilities with regards to flexible bodies, or flexbodies, for multi-body dynamics models.
  - Generating Flexbody H3D Files
    MotionView works with a HyperWorks neutral file called H3D to represent the flexible body. This compact file format stores the necessary information for visualizing the flexbody in the pre-processing window and the modes and interface nodes in the post-processing window. It also stores the modal and nodal information.
  - Visualizing H3D Flexbodies
    Once an H3D file is created, it can be visualized in HyperView.
  - Using H3D Flexbodies in MotionView
  - Flexbody Post-processing
    MotionView models solved in MotionSolve or Adams can be animated in HyperView. In addition, the plots for these models can also be viewed in HyperGraph.
  - Translation of Flexbody Files
  - Flexbody Theory and Flexbody Flow
    - Flexbody Theory
    - Flexbody Flow
    - Craig's Guide to Creating Flexbodies for MotionView
    - Using Flexbodies for Fatigue
      - Fatigue Prep Overview
        The Fatigue Prep custom wizard generates ADAMS output files from a flexbody transient run, which can then be used in nCODE Fatigue software. Finite element fatigue requires that flexbody mode shapes be an nCODE FES file, and the flexbody modal participation factors be "n" number of DAC files, where each DAC file contains the time history of a single mode's modal participation factor.
      - Importing/Exporting DAC Files
        DAC files can be imported to and exported from HyperGraph.
      - Preparing nCODE FES and ASC Files from H3D Flexbody Files
        nCODE fatigue software requires that the stress modes be represented in their FES file format. MotionView allows you to convert these modes from an H3D flexbody file to the nCODE FES file.
      - Preparing nCODE DAC Files from ADAMS RES Files
        nCODE fatigue software requires that each time history of modal participation factors be represented in the DAC file format, one file per time history. MotionView provides the conversion option from the ADAMS ASCII file to "n" number of DAC files, where "n" is the number of modes within the flexbody. MotionView modifies the base name accordingly so that unique filenames result.
      - Convert DAC Files to ABF Files
        DAC files can be converted to ABF files in two ways.
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)
Use the FMU tool to add a Functional Mock-up Unit and connect it to a multi-body model.
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
Reference materials for the MotionView Python Language.
HyperWorks MotionView Help
MotionView help for HyperWorks.

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MotionView

2022.2

Home
Flexible Bodies
MotionView has many pre-processing and post-processing capabilities with regards to flexible bodies, or flexbodies, for multi-body dynamics models.
Using Multi-body Dynamics Flexbodies
MotionView has many pre-processing and post-processing capabilities with regards to flexible bodies, or flexbodies, for multi-body dynamics models.
Flexbody Theory and Flexbody Flow
Using Flexbodies for Fatigue

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
HyperWorks MotionView Help

Index

Using Flexbodies for Fatigue

Fatigue Prep Overview
The Fatigue Prep custom wizard generates ADAMS output files from a flexbody transient run, which can then be used in nCODE Fatigue software. Finite element fatigue requires that flexbody mode shapes be an nCODE FES file, and the flexbody modal participation factors be "n" number of DAC files, where each DAC file contains the time history of a single mode's modal participation factor.
Importing/Exporting DAC Files
DAC files can be imported to and exported from HyperGraph.
Preparing nCODE FES and ASC Files from H3D Flexbody Files
nCODE fatigue software requires that the stress modes be represented in their FES file format. MotionView allows you to convert these modes from an H3D flexbody file to the nCODE FES file.
Preparing nCODE DAC Files from ADAMS RES Files
nCODE fatigue software requires that each time history of modal participation factors be represented in the DAC file format, one file per time history. MotionView provides the conversion option from the ADAMS ASCII file to "n" number of DAC files, where "n" is the number of modes within the flexbody. MotionView modifies the base name accordingly so that unique filenames result.
Convert DAC Files to ABF Files
DAC files can be converted to ABF files in two ways.

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