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Working with Animations

Now you’ll review the animation you loaded with the clearance study results that Adams/PostProcessor just performed. You’ll view the animations in different ways, including interactively setting the speed at which Adams/PostProcessor runs the animations.

Viewing an Animation

The animation that you will view is stored on the page named p2_clearance.

To select the animation page:

•	In the treeview, select p2_clearance.

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Adams/PostProcessor switches to animation mode and displays the first frame of the animation. All the elements in the dashboard change to those for controlling animations. The pull-down menu at the top of Adams/PostProcessor to the right of the toolbar also changes to Animation to indicate the current mode.

•	Notice the red and green lines in the animation:

•	The green line tracks the distance between the right wheel (PART_21) and the steering wheel (PART_10).

•	The red line tracks the distance between the left wheel (PART_22) and the steering wheel (PART_10).

To run the animation:

•	At the top of the dashboard, select the Play tool.

Notice that Adams/PostProcessor continuously plays the animation. You can also set Adams/PostProcessor so that it plays the animation only once or plays the animation forward and then backward.

To set the animation to play only once:

1.	On the dashboard, select Animation, if necessary.

2.	Set Loop to Once.

Interactively Playing the Animation

To help you investigate the results of a simulation, you can play animation frames forwards and backwards, rewind to an earlier frame, or play only a portion of the animation. In this tutorial, you’ll interactively play the animation by dragging the animation slider.

To interactively play the animation:

1.	To rewind the animation, select the Reset tool.

2.	At the top of the dashboard, drag the slider bar back and forth to watch how the animation plays backwards and forwards at the speed at which you drag the slider.