MotionView User's Guide

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MotionView Menus
Explore the MotionView menus which provide access to the various wizards, dialogs, tools, and panels.
Model Menu
The Model menu provides access to several wizards and dialogs.

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
MotionView Interface with Collaboration Tools
Tcl/Tk Reference Guide
MDL Reference Guide
MotionSolve Reference Guide
Templex and Math Reference Guide

MotionView User's Guide

What's New
View new features for MotionView 2019.
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.
- SolverMode Menu
  The SolverMode sets the current the active solver for MotionView.
- Model Menu
  The Model menu provides access to several wizards and dialogs.
  - Creating Models Using the Assembly and Attachment Wizards
  - Set Wizard Paths
    The Set Wizard Path dialog allows you to set the directories in which the several files are stored.
  - Materials
    Use the tool to view, add, and edit the material properties that are used for NLFE bodies.
  - Implicit Graphics
    Implicit graphics can be displayed for all applicable entities, allowing you to visualize their location and orientation.
  - Data Summary
    The Data Summary dialog displays model data in a table.
  - Topology Summary
    The Topology Summary dialog displays system data for a model in a table.
  - Export Data
    The Export Data dialog allows you to export your data to an Excel or text file.
- Analysis Menu
  The Analysis menu provides access to the Task Wizard and View Reports dialogs.
- Tools Menu
  The MotionView Tools menu allows you to check a model for errors, select a writer and user mode, and access such panels as Reports, Templex Functions, and Options.
- FlexTools Menu
  The FlexTools menu provides access to Flex Prep, Flex File Gen, Fatigue Prep, and Load Export.
- Macros Menu
  The Macros menu contains many utilities for use with MDL models.
- Metadata File Generation
  A metadata file is automatically generated when you save the active MDL model as an ADAMS or MotionSolve deck or you run a solver analysis on the active model.
- Metadata File Format
  The metadata file consists of multiple data blocks denoted by keyword pairs.
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.
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.
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.

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MotionView User's Guide

Home
MotionView Menus
Explore the MotionView menus which provide access to the various wizards, dialogs, tools, and panels.
Model Menu
The Model menu provides access to several wizards and dialogs.

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
MotionView Interface with Collaboration Tools
Tcl/Tk Reference Guide
MDL Reference Guide
MotionSolve Reference Guide
Templex and Math Reference Guide

Model Menu

The Model menu provides access to several wizards and dialogs.

Wizards	Dialogs
Assembly Wizard	Materials
Attachment Wizard	Implicit Graphics
Set Wizard Paths	Data Summary
	Topology Summary

Creating Models Using the Assembly and Attachment Wizards
Set Wizard Paths
The Set Wizard Path dialog allows you to set the directories in which the several files are stored.
Materials
Use the tool to view, add, and edit the material properties that are used for NLFE bodies.
Implicit Graphics
Implicit graphics can be displayed for all applicable entities, allowing you to visualize their location and orientation.
Data Summary
The Data Summary dialog displays model data in a table.
Topology Summary
The Topology Summary dialog displays system data for a model in a table.
Export Data
The Export Data dialog allows you to export your data to an Excel or text file.

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