Full-Vehicle Analysis: File Driven Events

Full-Vehicle Assembly

Select the Full-Vehicle Assembly you want to analyze. The menu lists all full-vehicle assemblies currently open in your session.

Assembly Variant

Select the assembly variant you want to analyze. The menu lists all full-vehicle assembly variants of the chosen assembly.

Switches to the selected variant and adds the required testrig as needed.

Output Prefix

Enter a string that specifies the Analysis Output Name. The string can contain only alphanumeric characters and underscores (_). Adams Car generates the output files following this naming convention: the output files are called output_prefix_external_file_name to form the complete analysis name. For example, if you enter test_45 as the output prefix, and if you submit a sine_steer.dri loadcase file, then the output file name becomes test_45_sine_steer.

Solver Settings File

Select one or more files (extension .ssf) defining the solver settings to be temporarily applied for this simulation (optional).

Opens the Solver Settings File (extension .ssf) editor dialog box.

Simulation Mode

Select interactive, background, graphical, files or event only.

See Mode of Simulation: Interactive, Mode of Simulation: Graphical, Mode of Simulation: Background, Mode of Simulation: Files_only, Mode of Simulation: Event_only.

Enter the name of a file that contains road data information. The tire subsystems use this information to calculate the tire/road interaction forces.

Tips on Entering File Names in Text Boxes

Import and visualize road graphics from file.

Remove road or path graphics.

View road / path file in info window.

Edit road / path file in road builder or text editor.

Driver Control Files

Enter one or more event files from any Adams Car Database. The file(s) contains all the inputs that will be applied to the full-vehicle assembly.

Tips on Entering Object Names in Text Boxes.

To learn more about event files see Using the Driving Machine.

Create Event Log File

Select if you want Adams Car to write information about the assembled model and analysis to an Analysis Log File.

Add Vehicle Dynamics Requests

Activates requests computing certain vehicle dynamics outputs during the full vehicle event.

Some of these additional requests are required for standard post-processing (reports and plots).

Compute Characteristic Values

Activates requests computing suspension and steering characteristics during the full vehicle event.

The additional requests are equivalent to those previously already available for suspension analysis.

See Output of Suspension Analyses in Adams Car - Running Analysis for more details.

Select to display a dialog box where you can add multi-line comments to any entity, to describe its purpose and function. Adams Car displays different comments dialog boxes, depending on the entity type for which you want to record comments:

Learn about Recording Comments.

Select to view property file information. By default, your template-based product displays this information in the Information window, but you can choose to display the information in a text editor.

Learn about:

Select to display an Alignment dialog box where you can set toe, camber and caster alignment values.