Creating a Kinematics Scenario

A kinematics scenario defines which mechanisms, excitations, and probes are active in the kinematics simulation. The scenario also sets the time parameters for the simulation.

Before you begin: A kinematics simulation must be open in the Kinematics Simulation workbench.
Related Topics
Accessing the Kinematics Simulation Workbench
Creating a Law Excitation
Recording an Excitation
Defining Measure Probes
Defining Interference Probes

  1. In the Scenarios and Excitations toolbar, click one of the following:

    • Kinematics Scenario to create a scenario by selecting law excitations.
    • Kinematics Excitation Recorder to create a kinematics scenario by recording an excitation.

    The Kinematics Scenario dialog box appears. The content of the dialog box depends on the scenario you created.

    If the product being simulated contains only a single mechanism representation, that mechanism is selected by default.

  2. If the product contains multiple mechanism representations, select the mechanism that you are simulating. Only one mechanism can be simulated in a single kinematics scenario.

  3. If you clicked Kinematics Scenario , indicate the Law Excitations that are used to drive the simulation in the Excitations tab:


    • Highlight a Law Excitation in the Available column and click the right arrow to include the excitation in the simulation.
    • Highlight a Law Excitation in the Referenced column and click the left arrow to remove the excitation from the simulation.

    You can include multiple Law Excitations in a simulation as long as the excitations do not drive related or linked commands in the mechanism. Only kinematics excitations that were previously defined in the Kinematics Simulation workbench are listed in the Kinematics Scenario dialog box. See Creating a Law Excitation for more information about kinematics excitations.

  4. In the Probes tab, indicate the probes that are included in the simulation:


    • Highlight a probe in the Available column and click the right arrow to include the probe in the simulation.
    • Highlight a probe in the Referenced column and click the left arrow to remove the probe from the simulation.

    Only probes that were previously defined in the Kinematics Simulation workbench are listed in the Kinematics Scenario dialog box; see Defining Measure Probes and Defining Interference Probes for more information.

  5. In the Parameters tab, enter the time limits for the simulation. The configuration of the mechanism will be calculated at regular intervals (as determined by the Time step) between the Start time and the End time.

  6. Click OK.

    A kinematics scenario is created in the specification tree.

    If you used Kinematics Excitation Recorder, both the Excitation Recorder dialog box and the Simulation Player appear to record an excitation. See Recording an Excitation.