INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Adams/Car Training
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Welcome to Adams/Car Training
● Welcome to Adams/Car training. In this course, you learn
how to use Adams/Car to create, catalog, and analyze
suspension and vehicle assemblies.
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Welcome to Adams/Car Training
● What’s in this section:
● A Brief History of Adams
● About MSC.Software
● Getting Help
● A Review of Basic Adams Terminology
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A Brief History of Adams
● Adams: Automatic dynamic analysis of mechanical
systems.
● Technology was implemented about 25 years ago.
● Mechanical Dynamics Incorporated (MDI) formed by
researchers who developed the base Adams code at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. MDI has been
part of MSC.Software Corporation since 2002.
● Large displacement code.
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A Brief History of Adams (Cont.)
● Systems-based analysis.
● Original product was Adams/Solver, an application that
solves nonlinear numerical equations. You build models in
text format and then submit them to Adams/Solver.
● In the early 90’s, Adams/View was released, which
allowed users to build, simulate, and examine results in a
single environment.
● Today, industry-specific products are being produced,
such as Adams/Car and Adams/Driveline.
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About MSC.Software
● Find a list of MSC.Software products at:
● http://www.mscsoftware.com/products/products.cfm
● Find a list of Adams products at:
● http://www.mscsoftware.com/products/mdadams.cfm?Q=457&Z=455
● Find additional training at:
● http://www.engineering-e.com/training/
● Or your local support center
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Getting Help
● Online help
● To access the online help, do one of the following:
● From the Help menu, select Adams/Car Help
● Press F1 when a dialog box is active
● Once the online help is displayed, you can browse through the
table of contents or the index, or search for any terms.
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Getting Help (Cont.)
Index/search for entire
Contents of Adams/Car help
selected tab
Table of contents
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Getting Help (Cont.)
● Technical support
● To find your local support center, go to:
http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/contacts/index.cfm
● To read the Service Level Agreement, go to:
http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/pdf/MSC_Tech_Support_Guide_2006.pdf
● knowledge base
● Go to http://support.adams.com/kb
● For a quick tour of the knowledge base, go to:
http://www.adams.com/news/newsletter/vol3/kbtour.htm
● Consulting services
● Go to http://support.adams.com/services/consulting.shtm
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Getting Help (Cont.)
● MSC Virtual Product Development Community
● To join the community of MSC.Software users, go to:
http://forums.mscsoftware.com.
● Select Adams to view the Adams discussions.
● Select MSC News to view product alerts and company news and
events.
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A Review of Basic Adams Terminology
● Adams/Solver
● The solution engine.
● Adams/Solver dataset (*.adm)
● The ASCII file submitted to Adams/Solver, which contains
statements and functions that define the model.
● Adams/Solver command (*.acf)
● An ASCII file that contains commands to control how
Adams/Solver runs the model.
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A Review of Basic Adams Terminology (Cont.)
● Adams/Solver output files
● Graphics (*.gra) - Information about how graphics work.
● Request (*.req) - Contains output for user-specified results.
● Results (*.res) - Contains state-like results for every entity. This
file is generally very big, and is not produced by Adams/Car by
default; you can, however, change Adams/Car to write this file.
Required to animate flexible bodies.
● Message (*.msg) - Information about the Adams/Solver
simulations. Useful for debugging with DEBUG/EPRINT.
● Output (*.out) - Output including initial conditions and request,
and content can depend on output specifications. It is usually
tabular and human readable (for example, tables for output from
LINEAR command).
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