InMotion permits assembly, kinematic, dynamic and static analyses of complete mechanical systems. Its major features include a graphical user interface, integration with INERTIA’s finite element database and the ability to analyze numerous load cases simultaneously.

These features allow highly complex mechanisms, such as automotive suspensions, to be designed, analyzed, animated and simulated. By moving, scaling and rotating joint placements and link geometry to various positions, the user can determine the impact of the resulting loads, displacement, velocity, accelerations and other mechanical behaviors.
Models are built in the same manner as conventional CAD systems. Links can be generated with specific attributes, constraints, joints and loads. Link types include gears, ground, rack, roller, simple and slider. Joint types include gear-set, pin and slot, rack and pinion, revolute, universal and translational.

Constraints include difference, distance, simple and twelve other driver types. Harmonic, polynomial, simple and user-defined, time and position dependent driving constraints can handle virtually every industrial application.

In addition to masses, InMotion can apply such rotational and translation force-producing elements as springs, dampers and actuators.

The reaction forces at each joint are displayed graphically and textually, and the entire mechanical system can be animated. The position, velocity and acceleration vs. time or position for each link and coupler paths for points of interest may be plotted.

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