Creating or Editing a USETOOL Activity

You can create or modify a USETOOL worker activity.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin:

  • The manikin and all other resources must be in your scenario.
  • The manikin must have at least one Human Task defined shown in the Behavior section.
  • The manikin must have a grabbed object - Create GET before launching.

Note: If the Track modifies outside of a USETOOL activity, this modification does not take into account during a simulation.

See Also
Modifying Activities with Tracks or Repeatable Sequences
Editing Human Activities

Create a USETOOL

This describes how to create a USETOOL activity.

  1. Click Create USETOOL .
    Note: If there are no grabbed objects, a message is displayed, click Close and create a GET.
    The dialog box appears to show the UseTool tab. See USETOOL Dialog Box
  2. Use the Track Toolbar for your requirements.
    The context toolbars appear.



    The Contextual Commands Toolbar appear.

    If the manikin is not within reach, the graphic handle snaps to the manikin's feet to move the manikin within range of the object it wants to reach. This creates a walk in the human task.

  3. Click OK .


    See Interpolation.

    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.

Edit USETOOL Activity

This describes how to edit the USETOOL Activity.

Double-click UseTool in the breadcrumb.


The dialog box appears and the USETOOL synchronizes at the starting of the track (first trajectory point).

See About Sequencing Sequencing.

  • Defining a walk activity, the walk path displays. You can click the walk path to add/delete/modify the spline points. Double-clicking the walk path brings up the USETOOL definition dialog box in the Walk To phase.
  • Select a position.
  • Select the trajectory points directly in the 3D window. Use the Previous/Next in the action bar to navigate along the trajectory points in the track and use the insert/modify/delete icons to modify the trajectory points.
  • The regrasp or reposition postures can edit by clicking the respective icons in the action bar at the appropriate trajectory point.
  • The target location displays in a different color. You can select a different trajectory point and define it as the target location. If the trajectory uses a repeatable sequence within the same activity, those target locations do not modify. Specifying a new location, it uses the modified target location.
  • Select different trajectory points and specify them as a repeatable sequence. The previously used repeatable sequence within the USETOOL activity does not automatically update.
  • Click OK to save the changes.