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Data Element Create Plant Input

Ribbon menu → Elements Tab → Data Elements container → Plant Input

(Classic) Build → Controls Toolkit → Plant Input

(Classic) Build → Data Elements → Plant → Plant Input → New...

Interactive Simulation dialog box → Linear States Tool → Right-click Plant Input text box

Defines a set of inputs (state variables) to the mechanical system that Adams Solver recognizes as system input during an Adams Linear simulation. When you run any other type of simulation, the plant input acts only as a pointer to the list of the specified variables.

Both function expressions and user-written subroutines can access the plant input:

■Function expressions access the values by using the Adams Solver function PINVAL(i i), where i specifies the PINPUT ID and i specifies the ith variable in the plant input list. Note that i is not the ID of the variable.

■User-written subroutines call the subroutine SYSFNC to access single elements of the plant input list and call the subroutine SYSARY to access all values for a PINPUT (see the Subroutines section of the Adams Solver online help).

Learn more:

■Plant Inputs and Outputs

■Ways to Use Plant Input and Output

Note:

Variables can appear in more than one plant input. This allows you to output two or more sets of state matrices at the same time.

For the option:	Do the following:
Plant Input Name	Enter the name that you want assigned to the plant input.
Adams Id	Assign a unique ID number to the plant input. See Adams Solver ID.
Comments	Add any comments about the plant input to help you manage and identify it. See Comments.
Variable Name	Enter the list of variables.