Modify Air Spring
(Standard Interface) Right-click component → Modify Shared Dialog Box
Modifies the reference to the property file and, therefore, the spring characteristics associated with the air spring you selected. This is comparable to changing springs in the physical world.
For the option: | Do the following: |
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Air Spring | |
Property File | Specify a property file. Note that air-spring property files are in XML File Format only. Select the "+" button to add a new property file to the list. Select the "-" button to remove one or more property files from the list. |
Trim Load/ Auto Trim Load | Select one of the following: ■Trim Load - Enter a value that sets the spring's trim load. ■Auto Trim Load - Adams Solver uses a differential equation to set the spring's trim load. |
Scale Factor | Enter a scale factor to be applied to the force function. The default is 1.0. |
Symmetric | Enabled when you modify component pairs (or brothers): ■yes - Modify properties of both components in a pair. ■no - Only modify properties of the selected component. When you modify a single component, this option is disabled because a single component is by nature asymmetric. |
 | Select to display a dialog box where you can add multi-line comments to any entity, to describe its purpose and function. Your template-based product displays different comments dialog boxes, depending on the entity type for which you want to record comments: ■If recording comments for modeling entities in Standard Interface, your template-based product displays the Entity Comments dialog box. ■If recording comments for any other entity type, your template-based product displays the Modify Comment dialog box. Learn about Recording Comments. |
 | Select to modify the property file in the Property File Editor. |
 | Select to view property file information. By default, your template-based product displays this information in the Information window, but you can choose to display the information in a text editor. Learn about: |