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Powerful
physics-based motion simulation
  The
most popular virtual prototyping tool for
SolidWorks, COSMOSMotion™ lets you make sure
your designs will work before you build them.
COSMOSMotion is powered by ADAMS®, the most
widely used mechanical simulation software in
the world.
Fully embedded inside of
SolidWorks, COSMOSMotion is the standard virtual
prototyping package for engineers and designers
interested in understanding the performance of
their SolidWorks models.
COSMOSMotion enables engineers
to size motors/actuators, determine power
consumption, layout linkages, develop cams,
understand gear drives, size springs/dampers,
and determine how contacting parts behave.
The result is a quantitative
reduction in physical prototyping costs and
reduced product development time. COSMOSMotion
also provides qualitative benefits such as the
ability to consider more designs, risk
reduction, and the availability of valuable
information early in the design process.
COSMOSMotion™
provides the following features and benefits:
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Full Integration with SolidWorks.
COSMOSMotion is fully embedded within the
SolidWorks Windows®-native environment.
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Easy to Use Interface.
COSMOSMotion has an intellimotion wizard to
quickly build motion models and a browser
similar to the SolidWorks Feature Manager.
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Joints.
Joint types include revolute, cylindrical,
spherical, universal, translational, screw,
planar, and fixed joints.
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Joint Primitives.
Joint primitives include inline, inplane,
orientation, parallel axis and
perpendicular. |
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Contact or Cam Restraints.
Contact container types include
point-to-curve 2D contact, curve-to-curve 2D
contact, curve-to-curve 2D intermittent
contact and 3D contact. |
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Joint Couplers.
Joint couplers allow motion of a revolute,
cylindrical, or translational joint to be
coupled to the motion of another revolute,
cylindrical, or translational joint.
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Motion Drivers.
Motion drivers include actuator or motor.
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Motion Types.
Motion types include displacement, velocity
and acceleration. |
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Motion and Forcing Functions.
Motion and forcing functions include
constant, harmonic, step, data points (spline),
and expressions as a function of time (any
ADAMS® functions). |
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Forces.
Forces include linear and torsion springs,
linear and torsion dampers, action-only
force and moment, action/reaction force and
moment, point-to-point impact force,
gravity, and bushings. |
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Results Visualization.
Extensive results visualization tools
include the display of displacement,
velocity, acceleration, and force vectors,
the trace of any point of the body during
the simulation, 3-D animation, saving
animations in AVI and VRML format, dynamic
interference checking, and exporting results
to excel or text files. |
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Export joint forces to COSMOSWorks.
Inertial loads and joint forces can be
exported to COSMOSWorks for stress analysis.
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