Exercise 2a: Load, Animate and Review a Model

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1 Exercise 2a: Load, Animate and Review a Model This exercise uses the file bumper_deck.key and the corresponding d3plot. Step 1: Load the solver input and result files, bumper_deck.key and d3plot. 1. From the Standard toolbar, select the New Session button,, to delete the contents of the current HyperWorks Desktop session. 2. Select Open Model to load the Load model panel: 3. Click the Load model file browser,, open the file bumper_deck.key located in \Model-files\ch2\2a-bumper\. 4. Click the Load results file browser,, open the file d3plot located in \Model-files\ch2\2a-bumper\. 5. Click Apply to load the model data from the results file along with the input data.

2 Step 2: Animate the model. 1. Click the Animate Start/Pause button,, to animate the window. 2. Click the button again to stop the animation. 3. Click on the triangle next to the first button and note the various animation types available. Animation Types A brief description of each animation type is given below: Transient Modal Linear Displays the model in its time step positions as calculated by the analysis code. Creates and displays an animation sequence starting and ending with the model s original position. The deforming frames are calculated based on a sinusoidal function. Creates and displays an animation sequence starting with the original position of the model and ending with the fully deformed position. An appropriate number of frames are linearly interpolated between the first and last positions. Step 3: Animate from time 0.00 to Click the Animation Controls button,. 2. Click the first arrow next to Current time,, to display the page at time Set the Animate end time to 0.04 by entering 0.04 into the text field. 4. Move the slider bar under Max Frame Rate: down, to slow down the animation. 5. Animate the model. Note the model animates between 0 and Stop the animation. 7. Click the Animate end forward arrow until the slider bar reaches the end of the animation.

3 8. Change the animation type to Linear Animation Mode and note the difference in the panel. Animation Controls panel for Linear Animation Mode. 9. Change the animation type back to Transient Animation Mode,. Step 4: Choose a specific time step using the Result Browser. The active load case and simulation are displayed in the Result Browser: 1. Click on the dropdown for the Loadcase Selector. Notice that there is only one Loadcase in model. 2. Select Time = under the Loadcase Selector in the Results Browser. 3. Use the arrows to the left of Time = to move through the time steps. You can also move through loadcases/subcases and modal shapes using the Results Browser. 4. Set the current time to Time = Step 5: Use the view controls. The view controls for the animation window are contained in the 3D View Controls toolbar and the Standard Views toolbar. 1. Within the 3D View Controls toolbar (shown below), left click on the Dynamic Rotate Mode button,, then left click in the graphics area and drag your mouse to rotate the model.

4 If the 3D View Controls toolbar is not visible, select View > Toolbars > HyperWorks > 3D View Controls to turn on its display. 2. Left click on the Pan button,, and then left click and drag your mouse in the graphics area to pan the model. 3. Left and right click on the arrows,,, to rotate the model, left/right, up/down, and clockwise/counter clockwise. 4. Left click on the Zoom button,, to zoom in and right click on it to zoom out. 5. Within the Standard Views toolbar (shown below), select the Fit button to fit the model to the window. If the Standard Views toolbar is not visible, select View > Toolbars > HyperWorks > Standard Views to turn on its display. 6. Click the XY Top Plane View button,,to view the model in the Top view. 7. Within the Results Browser, right click and select Create > View. This creates a new folder called Views with a single saved view called View 1.

5 8. Within the Standard Views toolbar, select the Isometric View button,, to change the view to the Isometric view. 9. Right click on Views in the Results Browser and select Create > View. This creates a second view named View Click on the icons next to View 1 and View 2 to recall the selected view. Step 6: Use the mouse controls 1. While holding in the ctrl key and the left mouse button, drag the cursor to rotate the model. 2. While holding in the ctrl key and the right mouse button, drag the cursor to pan the model. 3. While holding in the ctrl key and the middle mouse button, circle a portion of the model to zoom in. 4. While holding in the ctrl key, spin the mouse wheel to zoom in at the cursor location 5. While holding in the ctrl key, click the middle mouse button to fit the model to the screen. Step 7: Change the Window Layout and load files. 1. Click the drop down next to the Page Layout button. 2. Select the two window layout. 3. Activate the new window. 4. Load the bumper_deck.key and d3plot files in the new window by clicking Apply in the Load Model panel.

6 Step 8: Change the view in multiple windows simultaneously using Synchronized View. 1. From the Page Controls toolbar, select the Synchronized View button,. This opens a window that allows you to select which windows should be synchronized. 2. Both window are selected by default, so simply click OK. 3. Select the YX Rear Plane View,, to display the rear view for the two windows 4. Click the Isometric View button,, and zoom in/out of the model to change the view. 5. Click the select the Synchronized View button,, to turn off the synchronization. 6. Make the left window active by clicking in it and then rotate the model.

7 Only the model in window 1 in the graphics area rotates.