ADAMS/PostProcessorPRODUCTMSC.ADAMS

CONTROLS: ANIMATION MODE• Animation • View • Camera • Record • Overlay • Messages

CONTROLS: PLOTTING MODE• Curve Math• Plot Data:

Simulation Channel Type Independent Axis Surf Add CurvesAdd OptionClear Plot

SIGNAL PROCESSING

• Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) for time series data

• Bode plots for frequency domain• Linear system forced response• Filtering of curve data

PREFERENCES• Animation• Colors• Curves• Command Files• Fonts• View Orientation• Units

HIGHLIGHTS

BENEFITS

Using ADAMS/PostProcessor, you can simplify and speed the steps

required to view, study, and understand your MSC.ADAMS simulation

results:

• The software's streamlined, single-window interface — including a Microsoft Explorer-style Treeview and context-sensitive toolbars — allows synchronized animation and plotting

• Advanced animation and high-speed plotting capabilities let youeasily superimpose the results of multiple simulations for usefulcomparison

• You can define your own page layouts, plotting set-ups, and other formats, then easily store your custom environment to save time inrepeated usage

• Wherever possible, relevant objects of interest are automatically detected and the interface adjusts to match your current mode of operation

• Flexible components can be animated with displacement colorcontours to represent component deformation

• Keyboard shortcuts provide rapid access to commonly usedcommands

You can run ADAMS/PostProcessor as a standalone application, or access

its capabilities within the ADAMS/View environment. Standalone operation

improves start-up speed and reduces overall memory consumption.

A HIGH-PERFORMANCE TOOL FOR VISUALIZINGMSC.ADAMS SIMULATION RESULTS — USEDSTANDALONE OR INTEGRATED WITH ADAMS/VIEW

Core Product

• Faster, easier, and better visualization

• Improved understanding of your simulation results

• Flexible formats to match your preferences

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ADAMS/POSTPROCESSOR'S SINGLE-WINDOW, COCKPIT-STYLE INTERFACE PROVIDES EASYACCESS TO REQUIRED CONTROLS WHILE MINIMIZING VIEWPORT OBSTRUCTION.

The Treeview provides a hierarchicallisting of objects in the current session.“Name” and “type” filters allow controlover what objects are displayed. You canselect and highlight objects, and expandor collapse any Treeview element.

The Main toolbar provides shortcuts to commonly used commands forcontrolling sessions, pages, viewports, animation, and plotting.

Dashboard controls automatically change based on the mode — animationor plotting — of the active viewport. Tabbed containers provide access tomultiple groups of related controls.

Viewports display post-processing resultsas either graphs or animations, with theinterface highlighting the appropriate toolsfor working in the selected viewport’smode. You can arrange up to sixviewports on a page, and swap theirlocations easily. Individual viewports canalso be expanded to fill the page. You cancreate and configure multiple pagesindependently.

With the Property Editor, you can displayavailable parameters for a selected object,change parameter values, and watch asthe object is immediately updated.Multiple objects can be selected andupdated automatically.

Using the Statistics toolbar, you candisplay numerical data for thecorresponding plot curve.

The Curve Edit toolbar allows youto manipulate curve data.

The Status toolbar displaysinformation relevant to your currentoperation.

From the Menu Bar you access controlsfor the interface, animation or plottingoperations, and signal processing. Themenu bar automatically updates dependingon your operational mode.