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Create a Request

Ribbon menu → Design Exploration Tab → Instrumentation container → Create a new Request

(Classic) Build → Measure → REQUEST → New

Creates a request. Note that the options for providing result and component names are only available if the output of the results set is XML format. See Results (.res) Options dialog box help.

Learn more about Requests.

For the option:	Do the following:
Tips on Entering Object Names in Text Boxes.
Request Name	Enter the name that you want assigned to the request in the Modeling database.
Adams Id	Assign a unique ID number to the request. See Adams Solver ID.
Component Names	Available for XML result files only. Enter one or more strings that identify the names of the result set components the request produces. Learn more about About Naming Results and Components in Requests.
Component Labels	Available for XML result files only. Enter one or more strings that identify the labels to be used when plotting the result set components. Labels can be strings that include white space. Quotes must be used to define the string if you set special characters or whitespace.
Component Units	Available for XML result files only. Enter one or more strings that identify the unit dimension of the result set components in XML result files. If you do not specify units, then the units of the components are predefined based upon standard request type (for example, displacement, velocity, and acceleration). See standard units.
Results Name	Specifies the name of the result set in which all result set components produced by this request are placed when the result file is written in XML. If there is an existing result set with this name, then the result set components are placed in that result set. If there isn't an existing result set, then a new one is created and all the result set components are placed there. This is helpful if you want to group the output from multiple requests into a single result set. For example, you might have several different requests measuring driver input for a vehicle, and you might want to place them all within a result set named Driver_Inputs for easier viewing in Adams PostProcessor.
Comments	Add any comments about the request to help you manage and identify it. See Comments.
Define Using Type & Markers/ Define Using Function Expressions/ Define Using Subroutines/Define Using Variables	Set to: ■Define Using Type & Markers ■Define Using Function Expressions ■Define Using Subroutines ■Define Using Variables
If you selected Define Using Type & Markers, the following options appear:
Output Type	Select the type of output (Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, or Force).
I Marker, J Marker, R Marker	Specify the Markers with respect to which the output will be calculated.
If you selected Define Using Subroutines, the following options appear:
User Function	Enter parameters to the user-written subroutine REQSUB. Enter the user function using the following format where r1 through r30 are constants passed to the subroutine: r1, ..., r30 Learn About Specifying a Subroutine.
Routine	Specify an alternative library and name for the user subroutine REQSUB. Learn about ROUTINE Argument.
Title	If you specified to write an output file (.out), enter up to eight headings for columns of request output. Separate each heading with a comma (,). Each heading can have as many as eight alphanumeric characters, including underscores (_). The first character in each heading must be alphabetic. You cannot use a comma (,), a semicolon (;), an ampersand (&), or an exclamation point (!). If you do not want to specify a title for a particular column, use two quotation marks (" ") with no characters between them.
If you selected Define Using Function Expressions, the following options appear:
f2 , f3 , f4 , f6 , f7 , and f8	Enter function expressions in the boxes f2 , f3 , f4 , f6 , f7 , and f8 . Do not use f1 and f5 . Adams Solver uses them to hold magnitudes for the three functions that follow. You do not need to enter a function in every text box. Learn About Specifying Function Expressions.
Title	Enter a title for the top of each set of information output. The entire comment must be on one line. The title can be only eighty characters long. You can use blank spaces and all alphanumeric characters. However, you cannot use the comma (,), the semicolon (;), the ampersand (&), and the exclamation point (!).
If you selected Define Using Variables, the following options appear:
Variables	Enter the variables in the text box. Learn about Creating and Modifying State Variables.