Introduction

Adams interface

The Simcenter Amesim™ software Adams interface enables you to link a Simcenter Amesim model with an Adams multibody model of a mechanical structure. By coupling motion simulation and system simulation, this interface improves the accuracy of your full system simulation.

This interface is useful when hydraulic or pneumatic fluid power systems or other Simcenter Amesim systems interact with complex mechanical structures.

The interface interface is designed so that you can continue to use many of the Simcenter Amesim facilities while the model is running in Adams. In particular, you can change the parameters of the Simcenter Amesim model within Simcenter Amesim in the normal way and monitor the results by creating plots just as if you were producing a regular run.

Normally you will have Simcenter Amesim and Adams running simultaneously so that you can use the full facilities of both packages. An illustration of this process follows:

Construct the Simcenter Amesim model with import/export icon from/to MSC.Adams
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Modify Simcenter Amesim submodel parameters
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Complete the MSC.Adams model and link with Simcenter Amesim part
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Run the simulation

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Examine Simcenter Amesim submodel results in Simcenter Amesim	Examine MSC.Adams system results in MSC.Adams

When the process is finished, the user can change the Simcenter Amesim model parameters within Simcenter Amesim, as well as the Adams parameters within Adams.