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Alibre Motion is a motion simulation solution for analyzing the behavior of mechanical assemblies with moving parts. When designing mechanical systems and mechanism that move, such as linkages, engines, automotive suspensions, conveyors, etc., it is important to understand how various components interact and behave according the to engineering principles and physical laws.
With Alibre Motion you can build virtual prototypes to help analyze and optimize designs without having to build and test expensive and time-consuming physical prototypes. Alibre Motion enables multi-body dynamic analysis on an assembly created in Alibre Design enabling one to realistically predict and visualize the assembly's motion.
Features and Benefits
Easy creation of virtual prototypes with Automatic Constraint Mapping
Alibre Motion automatically creates a corresponding motion model of an assembly created in Alibre Design using the assembly constraints defined when modeling the assembly. This allows one to quickly create a virtual prototype that can be "put into motion" with very little additional effort. Mechanisms or machines to be simulated can include parts, joints and actuators, like a motor or a force.
Quick creation of animations that can be saved as AVIs
Alibre Motion allows users to quickly capture the simulated motion as an AVI video for replay by popular view players like Windows Media Player. Animated simulations can then be used to demonstrate a concept to a colleague or customer, or used in marketing or sales materials to demonstrate products for sale.
Generate Motion with prescribed rotations and translations
Alibre Motion allows one to prescribe a rotation or translation to a part to view the kinematic motion of an assembly.
Generate Motion due to gravity and prescribed forces and torques
Alibre Motion allows one to account for the effect of gravity in a physical system as well as simulating true dynamic motion by prescribing a force or torque, such as that generated by a motor or actuator in a real-world machine.
Accurate modeling with a variety of physical elements
Alibre Motion includes a variety of tools for modeling a mechanism or machine using joints, constraints, motors, actuators, springs, dampers, forces, torques or gravity.
Interference
Alibre Motion provides automated interference detection in a moving assembly allowing one to determine the position in an assembly's motion in which parts collide. Once a collision is determined the user can then zoom in on the area of concern and refine the design to remove the interference.
Helpful simulation feedback including motion traces and XY plots of results
Users can also study the motion of the assembly by creating a motion trace defining the motion of a given point on the assembly. Users can study the system's motion in the form of plots of various kinematic and dynamic properties. XY plots can be generated for positions, velocities, accelerations, forces and torques. These tools allow users to graphically view important properties and results to assess if and how the mechanism or machine will function in its intended real-world environment.
To learn more about the product in general, for more detail on the specific features in Alibre Motion, contact Alibre sales at 877-525-4273 or email sales@alibre.com.
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Alibre Motion is capable of both kinematic and dynamic analysis. In kinematics one is concerned with the motion of objects without concern for the forces that cause the motion, and in dynamics one is concerned with the forces.
This example plots the acceleration of the piston in red and the velocity of the piston in blue.
Quickly check the model for parts that will collide when in motion.
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