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Building and Simulating a Flexible Model

What This Tutorial Does

What You’ll Create and Simulate

Starting Adams View and Creating a Database

Building the Model

Creating the Flexible Link into the Database

Adding a Fixed Joint

Creating and Moving a Sphere

Adding a Second Fixed Joint

Simulating the Flexible Model

Investigating Modes

Displaying the Flexible Body Modify Dialog Box

Adding Color Contours

Setting the Datum Node

Changing the Deformation Scale

Modifying the Modal Content

Displaying the Flexible Body Modify Dialog Box

Disabling Individual Modes

Disabling a Range of Modes

Simulating the Model with Disabled Modes

Viewing Numeric Results