To define the motion of a mechanism, you can create analysis steps to specify a series of kinematic and dynamic actions through time. This allows you to test and run different simulation scenarios for a mechanism. Analysis steps are created under an analysis case. By default, when you create an analysis case, the app creates a dynamic step. To simulate a kinematic step, define at least one driver with a function on a joint. To simulate a dynamic step, define the gravity of the mechanism, or create at least one driver with a function on a joint. In each kinematic step of the simulation, bodies, joints, and drivers are solved. Joint limits and unilateral contact forces are taken into consideration. You can create multiple kinematic or dynamic steps under an analysis case. You must compute the analysis case to generate the results of every analysis step. | ||||||