About Human Locations

This gives a general overview of the human location command.

A Human Location is a geometric shape. This helps to define the final location to reach in various activities. The human location defines with respect to a resource or product.

Modes of interaction:

• Action / Object: Select human location command, then a product or resource.
• Object / Action: Select a resource or product, then the human location command.

To visualize and edit the human location, you can either:

• Double-click, or select the edit command in the context menu directly on the Human Location node. A 2D representation displays in the work area.
• Click Human Location. All the human locations appear in the context. Select a human location for editing. If selecting a product or resource, a new human location creates and this associates with the selected object.

Using human locations here are some specifics:

• The dialog box opens with a default name and radius of 175 mm (diameter of 350 mm roughly corresponds to the bounding box diameter of an average manikin.)
• It is initially places at the location of the mouse click, then snaps to the selected geometry.
• It displays itself as a disc with the center corresponding to the specified Robot's position.
• The node gets created under the specified product/resource.

Selecting Delete, deletes the human location.

This describes the concepts of human locations in a Create GOTO.

The human location is a destination point for any skill.

An example of this is in a GOTO activity and it stores itself on the object.

• Creates and or retrieves without being linked to a manikin.
• Creates by positioning a basic geometry (point) at a relative location from the object.
• The manikin cannot have a human location to any of its segments.

The GOTO :

• Involves a repetitive sequence of postures leading to displacement of the manikin.
• May have relation with human locations.

The following skill types:

• Walk forward.
• Walk backward.
• Side step.

The free walk refers to a mode within GOTO where you can walk the manikin to any required location without explicitly creating human locations. This is accomplished by dragging the Robot attached at the feet of the manikin

There are two ways of positioning the human location with respect to the selected object:

• The Robot automatically snaps to the human location, so you can move and rotate the human location.
• An automatic recognition feature provides for the selection of a point on planes and lines. Clicking a plane or on a line automatically snaps the human location to that location.

These two modes can combine for greater use of positioning. First you can snap quickly to the human location to a given geometric element, then the position can be fine-tuned with the Robot.

A straight-line path between the initial manikin position and the human location displays:

• Clicking at any point on the line adds a spline point. Moving the mouse close to the spline point displays a toolbar with two icons. The second icon is to associate the spline point (through point) to a resource or product. Click the second icon and on any product/resource. This associates the spline point to the selected resource/product.
• Select the Spline point by pressing the left mouse and dragging to modify the path of GOTO activity. Releasing the left mouse ends the drag of a spline point.