Creating a GET or REACH Activity

You can create GET or REACH activities.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Have a scenario with a manikin and objects.
See Also
GOTO Dialog Box
Editing Human Activities
GET Dialog Box
REACH Dialog Box

Create a Single-Handed GET Activity

You can create a single-handed GET activity.

  1. Create a task using the breadcrumb trail.
    See Using the Quick Activity Breadcrumb Trail
  2. Click Create GET .
    The dialog box appears.
    Note: If the object to GET is not within the reachable distance of the manikin, use the graphic handle to create a free walk. This ensures that placing a manikin is within the reachable distance. The 3D viewer updates and the manikin reach for the object.
  3. Select the object to get.
    The graphic handle snaps onto the previously created human interface and the manikin reaches for the object.

    Note: The Human Interface icon displays on the object selected, click to create another, if required.

  4. Create a Human Interface to edit the default Contact hand that is associated with the HumanInterface1.
    Important: Clicking the ALT key snaps the graphical handle to the manikins feet so that you can move the manikin to another position, if required.
    Note: If both the hands are equidistant from the selected human interface, the right hand is the default picking hand. If one of the hands already has a picked object that engages, the other free hand takes even though it is not close to the selected Human Interface.
  5. Select OK.

Create a Double Handed GET Activity

This describes how to create a Double Handed Get Activity.

Click Create GET.


The rest of the interactions are identical to the Single Handed GET except that:

  • Select two different Human Interfaces defined on the same product to indicate it is double handed. (in this case, during simulation, the manikin line of sight is between the two Human Interfaces.)

  • Note: Release the hands in the double handed pick so as to reselect a different Human Interface. Select any hand segment in the work area, and click OK in the dialog box to release the hand.

During simulation, both of the hands grasp the object simultaneously. There is no option to specify that the object to grasp by the two hands in a sequence.

Creating a Create REACH Activity

This describes how to use the Create REACH activity.

Creating a REACH activity is exactly identical to the GET activity, except for the following differences:
  • Apart from the hand segments, you can specify the foot or the Line of Sight for a REACH activity.
  • Proposes no intrinsic basic skills for reaching with the foot or the Line of Sight.