About the Tutorials
The two tutorials in this guide give you an introduction to using Adams Flex:
■Building and Simulating a Flexible Model - The first tutorial teaches you how to integrate flexible bodies into Adams View and attach rigid bodies to them. The tutorial also introduces you to Adams Flex basics, such as the options that are available for setting up the modal content of flexible bodies before a simulation.
■Exchanging a Rigid Body with a Flexible Body - The second tutorial teaches you how to bring a flexible body into an existing model and replace a rigid body with the flexible body. It lets you see how easy it is to integrate the flexible body into an existing rigid model so you can gradually add complexity and realism to your model.
■Runtime Switching between Rigid and Flex - The third tutorial teaches you how a flexible body's representation can be switched between rigid and flexible during and analysis. This is useful when only a subset of an event requires flexibility in a given component. Simulation time can be reduced by treating some components flexibly for only those portions of the analysis where the result accuracy actually requires it.
Note that there are additional tutorials in the guide, Using Adams Flex, that explain many of the advanced features of Adams Flex. They are presented in the chapters in which the advanced features are explained.