How does the Dashboard work?

The Dashboard is designed to visualize the results of your Simcenter Amesim simulations as a 2D animated scene, and to interactively control your Simcenter Amesim simulations

To create a Dashboard, you click the New dashboard icon in the Analysis toolbar:

Figure 1: The Analysis toolbar

A new Dashboard window opens:

Figure 2: Dashboard window

You can have several separate Dashboard animations for a system, in which case you add an additional Dashboard for each new animation you want to create.

For example, if you are simulating a complete car, you can create several Dashboards linked to the different subsystems you want to animate: for example, a Dashboard for the speedometer, the rev counter, the throttle, the gearbox and the brake, a second Dashboard for the Vehicle Energy Management system, and through the interactive signal input feature, control gear ratios, throttle and brakes in real-time.

You can manage your different Dashboards through the Manage dashboards dialog box:

Figure 3: Managing Dashboards

This dialog box is described in Managing Dashboards.