MotionView User's Guide

Graphics Panel

Graphics Panel

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Graphic entities can be used to create a 3D visual display of your model in the graphics window, as well as for displaying an animation following a simulation. One of the graphic types is a user defined graphic, which is a grouping of the other graphic types.

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Graphics panel

The graphics types that you can add include:

•Box
•CAD
•Curve
•Cylinder
•Deformable Curve
•Deformable Surface
•Ellipsoid
•File
•Graphic System
•Outline
•Sphere
•Spring
•Surface
•Tire
•Tube

The Graphics panel contains the following tabs:

Connectivity

Location

Properties

Inertia Properties

Visualization

Attachments

hmtoggle_plus1To add a graphic or graphic pair:
1.From the Project Browser, select the system to which the graphic is to be added.
2.Right-click on a system folder in the Project Browser and select Add > Reference Entity > Graphic from the context menu.

OR

-Right-click on a graphic folder in the Project Browser and select Add Graphic from the context menu.

OR

-Right-click the Graphic button entityGraphics-24 on the Reference toolbar.

The Add Graphic or Graphic Pair dialog is displayed.

3.The parent system name is displayed in the System field.
4.Enter a label in the Label: field, if you want to use a different label than the default.
5.Enter a variable name in the Variable: field, if you want to use a different variable name than the default.
6.Under Type:, select Single or Pair.
7.From the Type: drop-down menu, select one of the following graphic types: Box, CAD, Deformable Curve, Deformable Surface, Ellipsoid, File, Graphic System, Outline, Sphere, Spring, Surface, Tire, Tube.
8.If you select File, you can also select One graphic per component.  Click the file browser button and select a file from the Select Graphic Definition File file browser.  Valid file types include: .h3d, .g, .shl, .obj, and .fem.

If One graphic per component is selected, MotionView will create a graphic entity per component that exists in the graphics file.

9.Under Comment:, enter any comments or notes.
10.Click OK.

The new graphic type is added.
hmtoggle_plus1To remove a graphic from a system:
1.Right-click on a graphic in the Project Browser.
2.Select Cut from the context menu.

The graphic is removed from the body.
hmtoggle_plus1To cut a graphic and paste it into another system:
1.Right-click on a graphic in the Project Browser.
2.Select Cut from the context menu.
3.Right-click another body in the Project Browser.
4.Select Paste from the context menu.
hmtoggle_plus1To edit graphic properties in systems:
1.Select a graphic in the Project Browser.

The Graphics panel is automatically displayed.

2.Select the Properties tab.
3.Edit the graphic properties.
4.Select the Visualization tab.

Change the mesh, shaded or opaque settings.

 

See Also:

Graphic System

Implicit Graphics