MotionView User's Guide

Force Entity Toolbar

Force Entity Toolbar

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Force Entity Toolbar

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The Force Entity toolbar provides you quick access to the Forces, Modal Forces, Bushings, Fields, Spring Dampers, Beams, Polybeams, and Contacts panels.

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Force Entity toolbar

Left-click the corresponding button on the toolbar to set the filter for picking items in the graphics area to the currently selected entity/panel only, or right-click to display the the Add "Entity" dialog (which is used to add entities to the current model):

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Forces

Allows you to create forces and to edit the orientation and properties of forces.

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Modal Forces

Allows you to include a distributed force on a flexible body that exists in the modal form in the flexible body H3D.

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Bushings

Allows you to edit the orientation, connectivity, stiffness, damping, and preloads of bushings.

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Fields

Allows you to create and edit fields to relate forces between two bodies.

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Spring Dampers

Allows you to edit the connectivity, properties, and initial conditions of springs and dampers.

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Beams

Allows you to edit the connectivity, properties, and orientations of beams.

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Polybeams

Allows you to edit the connectivity, properties, and points of a polybeam.

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Contacts

Allows you to set contact data.