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Animation Dashboard - Tire/Road1

Animation dashboard → Tire/Road tab
Lets you overlay wheel/tire forces with the detailed FTire animation files including tire deformation. The Tire/Road Tab is only activated if FTire animation files (file extension .ogl or .rgu) have been created during the simulation and graphics option is set to OpenGL/Native.
The FTire wheel/tire forces and deformations are stored in an .ogl file. You can create this file by selecting Cosin Animation File (.ogl) under Settings → Solver → Output to Yes.
The Road Deformation is stored in an .rgu file. You can create this file by selecting Soft Soil Deformations (.rgu) under Settings → Solver → Output to Yes.
 
Note:  
The .rgu file is only created when using soft soil roads and a Cosin License ('ftsoil') is available.
 
For the option:
Do the following:
The following option is available for Overlay Animation Settings:
Display Overlay Animation
Select to overlay the .ogl animation on the Adams animation. The tires of the Adams model are hidden and tires from the .ogl file are displayed.
The following options are available for both Overlay Animation Setting and Video File Animation Settings:
Display Tire Forces
Select to display the tire forces from the .ogl animation. Following colors are used:
■red: contact element sticking to ground (local sliding velocity smaller than tire-file-dependent threshold)
■yellow: sliding
Display Rim
Select to display the tire rim graphics from the .ogl animation.
Display Road Patch
Select to display the road patch from the .ogl animation.
Note: Road patches are only created if specified in the FTire property file as animation detail (you can do this by creating the FTire property file using Cosin/Tire tools, select animation&sound and check, for example, road:grid)
Select Axle/Tire
Select for which axle/tire to overlay the .ogl animation on the Adams animation.
The following options are available for Road Animation Settings:
Road Deformation
Select to display the road deformation from the .rgu animation.
Note: The .rgu file is only created when using soft soil roads and a Cosin License ('ftsoil') is available.
Road Grid Scale
Scale the road grid dimensions.
1 Adams Car only