Kinematics Simulation Toolbars

Scenarios and Excitations Toolbar

The Scenarios and Excitations toolbar lets you define kinematics scenarios, law excitations, and recorded excitations.

Kinematics Scenario

See Creating a Kinematics Scenario

Law Excitation

See Creating a Law Excitation

Kinematics Excitation Recorder

See Creating a Kinematics Scenario

See Recorded Excitations

Probes Toolbar

The Probes toolbar lets you define probes that track distances, angles, speed, and acceleration in a mechanism or detect clashes between two products.

	Measure Probe See Defining Measure Probes
	Interference Probe See Defining Interference Probes
	Speed and Acceleration Probe See Defining Speed and Acceleration Probes See About Speed and Acceleration Probes
	Section Probe See Defining Section Probes
	Clash and Contact Detection and Stop on Clash and Contact Detection See Detecting Clashes and Contacts during Preview

Execution Toolbar

The Execution toolbar allows you to update a scenario, to simulate and generate results, and to track the issues that might arise during calculation.

Update Scenario

See Updating a Kinematics Scenario

Simulate and Generate Results

See Simulating and Generating Results

Scenario Incident Diagnosis

See Diagnosing Computation Incidents

Apply to Nominal Toolbar

The Apply to Nominal toolbar allows you to specify that the configuration of the mechanism at the end of the simulation should be saved as the permanent configuration of the model.

Transient/Nominal Mode

See Setting a Mechanism's Nominal Position

Kinematics Simulation Results Toolbar

The Kinematics Simulation Results toolbar allows you to animate your kinematics simulation, perform clash analysis during animation, and create snapshots for DMU review purposes.

	Play Animation See Animating a Kinematics Simulation
	Clash Detection See Animating a Kinematics Simulation
	Create Snapshot See Creating Snapshots

Geometric Objects Toolbar

The Geometric Objects toolbar allows you to create traces and swept volumes: two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometries based on an animation of a mechanism.

	Geometric Trace See Creating Traces
	Swept Volume See Creating Swept Volumes

Results Export Toolbar

The Results Export toolbar allows you to export probe results and animations.

	View Scenario Results See Reviewing Scenario Results
	Export Animation See Exporting a Kinematics Simulation