Familiarizing Yourself with Adams Driveline
As you familiarize yourself with Adams Driveline, note the following:
■You use the menu along the top of the window to execute commands and display dialog boxes. Notice that some menus are shaded in grey. This indicates that you cannot execute these commands because you do not have a subsystem open. When you open a subsystem, these menus change to black, indicating that you can execute the commands.
■You can use the main shortcut menu to execute simple commands, such as rotating views, zooming, and fitting assemblies in the main window. To display the main shortcut menu, right-click in the main window, away from any entities.
■Instead of manually entering text in boxes that require database objects, you can have Adams Driveline automatically do this task for you. To do this, right-click the text box of interest, and then do one of the following:
■Point to Hardpoint (or the entity of interest), and then select Pick. On the screen, place the cursor on top of the hardpoint. When the color of the hardpoint changes, click the left mouse button to select that hardpoint.
■Point to Hardpoint (or the entity of interest), and then select Guesses. From the pop-up menu that appears, select the entity name you want to use.
■Point to Hardpoint (or the entity of interest), and then select Browse. Adams Driveline displays the Database Navigator, which contains a list of entities, hardpoints in this case. Double-click the entity name you want to use.
