Welcome to Adams Explore

Explore is a feature in Adams View and Adams Car enabling the export of user-selected model characteristics to a spreadsheet file (.xlsx format) from which one can modify model parameters, run simulations and generate plots. This is especially useful for users who wish to enable non-Adams-user colleagues to perform "what-if" studies with their models based on certain parameters, simulations and output in a familiar environment like Excel.

From Adams View or Adams Car Standard Interface, the user specifies which content to include in the exported spreadsheet and where on the network Adams is configured to accept spreadsheet-based runs.

From a spreadsheet program, like Excel, one can then edit model parameters and launch analyses for the simulations the Adams user included in the exported spreadsheet (Adams View simulation scripts or Adams Car events).

When the simulation(s) complete a new spreadsheet is generated that includes results: values for the design objectives originally exported to the spreadsheet and plots based on the plot configuration file specified by the Adams user when originally exporting the spreadsheet.

Explore also allows the import of spreadsheets back into Adams so that models can be updated with the parameter values specified by the spreadsheet user.