Organization of this manual

This manual describes the interface between Adams and Simcenter Amesim. You can either use co-simulation or model exchange. In both cases the simulations are run from within Adams.

The main part of the manual deals with the standard interface and section 5 looks at the differences between export and co-simulation.

The structure of this manual is the following:

• The Preliminaries section describes how you must set your working environment so that you can use the interface.

• The Importing Simcenter Amesim into Adams section describes how Adams imports the Simcenter Amesim model.

• The Co-simulation or full export? section describes the differences between co-simulation interface and the export facility.

Sometimes a section of text is only valid for a Linux environment, for such text, the following presentation is used:

Using Linux Description for Linux-based environments.

Similarly, sometimes a section of text is only valid for a Windows environment, for such text, the following presentation is used:

Using Windows Description for Windows-based environments.

We assume that either the reader of this manual is already familiar with using Simcenter Amesim and Adams or a Simcenter Amesim user and an Adams user will collaborate in performing the task.

We recommend that new Simcenter Amesim users at least do the tutorial examples in the Simcenter Amesim manual before attempting a combined simulation. Similarly, a new Adams user should become familiar with using Adams before attempting a combined simulation.