About Adams Insight

Adams Insight, part of the Adams® 2022.1 suite of software, is a powerful design-of-experiments software. Adams Insight is a stand-alone product that also works with many other Adams products. Adams Insight lets you design sophisticated experiments for measuring the performance of your mechanical system. It also provides a collection of statistical tools for analyzing the results of your experiments so that you can better understand how to refine and improve your system.

Within the Adams analysis environment, there are conduits between Adams Insight and the other Adams products (for example: Adams Car). These conduits streamline the process by taking advantage of the inherent parametric strengths of the vertical application.

When these parametric applications are not accessible, you can use the Adams Insight ASCII Conduit (Adams Insight ASC). It provides the power of a streamlined parametric investigation process for systems that are defined by text files. For example, if you only have an .adm and .acf file of an analytical Adams Solver system, you could use Adams Insight ASC to easily execute various Adams Insight investigation strategies. Adams Insight ASC has an editor that enables you to import the ASCII files (.adm, .acf) and turn them into ASC templates, which together define an ASC system.

Adams Insight ASC is a general-purpose tool that helps you work with various analysis environments, from your own or inhouse-developed applications to commercial applications which accept an ASCII input deck.

See the section Adams File Types for more information on Adams Insight file types.