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Explore the various panels and tools in MotionView.
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Use the Graphics tool to create and edit visualizations for entities during pre-processing and post-processing.
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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 Toolbars
  The MotionView toolbars provide you with quick access to some of the most commonly used panels and tools.
- Entity Selector
  The Entity Selector allows you to set the graphic screen selection mode.
- Graphic Entity Attributes
  Model files are composed of many different parts, or entities. MotionView allows you to change the display attributes of each entity in a graphic. Visual properties such as shading, color, and mesh lines can be assigned using the Graphic Entity Attributes panel.
- Run Solver
  The Run Solver tool allows you to either run the current model or run an existing solver command file generated previously by MotionView.
- System/Assemby
  The System/Assembly panel allows you to add new systems and assemblies to your model, modify attachments, and set initial conditions and options for systems and assemblies.
- Analysis
  The Analysis panel allows you to add new analyses to your model, modify attachments, set initial conditions for analyses, and set analyses options.
- Command Sets
  The Command Sets panel allows you to create command sets for the solver-command file. The command sets for a model are order dependent, since they define the contents of the solver command file.
- Points
  The Points tool allows you to add points to models and edit point coordinates.
- Vectors
  Use the Vectors tool to create and edit vectors.
- Markers
  Use the Markers tool to create coordinate systems and reference frames.
- Methods of Orientation
  Coordinate systems in MotionView can be oriented using a variety of methods.
- Curves
  Use the Curves tool to create and edit curves.
- Deformable Curves
  Use the Deformable Curves tool to create and edit deformable curves.
- Spline3D
  The Spline3D panel allows you to add and edit three dimensional spline data.
- Surfaces
  The Surfaces tool allows you to create surfaces for use with advanced joint entities.
- Deformable Surfaces
  Use the Deformable Surfaces tool to create and edit deformable surfaces. These entities can change shape during the simulation and can be used with advanced joints and contacts.
- Graphics
  Use the Graphics tool to create and edit visualizations for entities during pre-processing and post-processing.
  - Create Graphics
  - Edit Graphics
    - Box
      There are three ways in which a box graphic (or cuboid) can be defined based on the location of the graphic reference frame about which the graphic is being created. The dimensions for the graphic are also specified using this reference frame.
    - CAD
    - Curve
      A curve graphic is created by positioning a 3D curve entity (Cartesian or parametric curve) in a reference frame (marker). The reference frame can be an explicit marker or can be implicitly defined using a body-point-orientation method.
    - Cylinder
    - Deformable Curve
    - Deformable Surface
    - Ellipsoid
    - File
      The file graphic type is used when realistic shapes of the bodies of the mechanism are to be included in the model.
    - Graphic Systems
      A graphic system entity acts similar to that of a general system entity - it is intended to be used as a container for graphic entities, and it can be used repetitively. Like general systems, graphic systems can use attachments that refer to entities that are external to the system - this allows you to use them repetitively by parameterizing the body, point, etc. that are typically needed to define the graphics within the graphic system.
    - Outline
    - Sphere
    - Spring
    - Surface
    - Tube
    - Tire
  - Modify the Visual Attributes of a Graphic
    From the Graphics panel’s Visualization tab, you can modify the visual attributes of the graphic types.
- Bodies
  Use the Bodies tool to create and edit rigid, point mass, and deformable/flexible bodies.
- Joints
  Use the Joints tool to create and edit basic joints.
- Advanced Joints
  Use the Advanced Joints tool to create and edit a set of special constraints called higher pair joints. Typically, these are constraints that involve a curve or surface on at least one of the two bodies.
- Couplers
  A Coupler entity defines an algebraic relationship between the degrees of freedom of two or three joints.
- Gears
  Use the Gears tool to create a gear entity to relate the motion of two joints.
- Bushings
  Use the Bushings tool to create bushings and edit their connectivity, properties, and orientation rules.
- General Constraints
  Use the General Constraints tool to create a generic expression based constraint.
- Fields
  Use the Fields tool to create a compliant connection between two bodies where stiffness or damping in one direction can be a function of displacement in another direction
- Spring Dampers
  Use the Spring Dampers tool to edit the connectivity, properties, and initial conditions of springs and dampers.
- Beams
  Use the Beams to create beams and edit their connectivity, properties, and orientations.
- Polybeams
  Use the PolyBeams tool to create polybeams and edit their points and properties.
- Motions
  Use the Motions tool to create motions and to edit the initial conditions, displacements, velocities, and acceleration of joints.
- Forces
  Use the Forces tool to create forces and to edit the orientation and properties of forces.
- Modal Forces
  The Modal Forces tool allows you to include a disturbed force on a flexible body that exists in the modal form in the flexible body H3D.
- Contacts
  Use the Contacts tool to specify the attributes of a contact force between two bodies.
- Outputs
  Use the Outputs tool to create a result output request to the solver, which writes out the requested data for plotting data.
- Sensors
  Use the Sensors tool to sense an event during simulation and to define a response to that event
- Control State Equations
  Use the State Equations tool to create and set control state equation data.
- FMU
  Use the FMU tool to add a Functional Mock-up Unit and connect it to a multi-body model.
- Templates
  Use the Templates tool to create and edit blocks of text that contain data fields and programming instructions.
- Forms
  Use the Forms tool to edit general data entry forms.
- Datasets
  Use the DataSets tool to create and edit datasets comprised of object types, such as real, string, boolean, integer, and options.
- Solver Variables
  Use the Variables tool to create solver variables that can be used to create an algebraic expression of state variables, as well as other solver variables. This can then be referenced in function expressions throughout the solver input file.
- Solver Arrays
  Use the Arrays tool to create solver arrays and set solver array data. Solver array types include X array, Y array, U array, IC array, Plant Input array, and Plant Output array.
- Solver Strings
  Use the Strings tool to create a solver string and set solver string data. A solver string provides a string that can be accessed within the model, for example, to pass into a user subroutine.
- Control SISOs
  Use the SISOs tool to set control SISO data. This data can be used to add additional states to the mechanical system being modeled.
- Solver Differential Equations
  Use the Diff Equations tool to set solver differential equations. These equations can be used to add additional states to the mechanical system being modeled.
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.
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
MotionView Panels
Explore the various panels and tools in MotionView.
Graphics
Use the Graphics tool to create and edit visualizations for entities during pre-processing and post-processing.
Edit Graphics

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

Edit Graphics

Box
There are three ways in which a box graphic (or cuboid) can be defined based on the location of the graphic reference frame about which the graphic is being created. The dimensions for the graphic are also specified using this reference frame.
CAD
Curve
A curve graphic is created by positioning a 3D curve entity (Cartesian or parametric curve) in a reference frame (marker). The reference frame can be an explicit marker or can be implicitly defined using a body-point-orientation method.
Cylinder
Deformable Curve
Deformable Surface
Ellipsoid
File
The file graphic type is used when realistic shapes of the bodies of the mechanism are to be included in the model.
Graphic Systems
A graphic system entity acts similar to that of a general system entity - it is intended to be used as a container for graphic entities, and it can be used repetitively. Like general systems, graphic systems can use attachments that refer to entities that are external to the system - this allows you to use them repetitively by parameterizing the body, point, etc. that are typically needed to define the graphics within the graphic system.
Outline
Sphere
Spring
Surface
Tube
Tire

See Also

Methods of Orientation

Direction Cosines

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