Active Motion Settings

Edit Toolbar : Active Motion Settings

To open the Active Motion Settings dialog-box

1.Click Edit toolbar > Active Motion Settings.
Active Motion Settings dialog-box

Active Motion Settings dialog-box

There are four tabs in the Active Motion Settings dialog-box.

Dialog Separators

The Dialog Separators are Horizontal Orange Bars.

Click the orange separator to show the contextual parameters.

For example, the separators in the image to the left are:

•Motion Name
•Motion Cycle Data
•Motion Units

The two buttons at the bottom of the Active Motion Settings dialog-box are:

'Save as Defaults': ['Defs' is 'Defaults'].

Use this button to make the changes become the new Active Motion Settings.

'Load Defaults':

Use this button to load new, saved, Active Motion Settings.

Note: The Active Motion Settings become the default settings when you save a model and then exit MechDesigner.
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Motion Name

Motion Name [Read / Write]

1.Enter a new name with your keyboard.
2.Press the Enter [also called 'Return'] key on your keyboard.

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Motion Cycle Data

Number-of-Steps [Read / Write]

The number of points along each motion graph.

Note: MotionDesigner evaluates motion-values at all and ANY value of the X–axis.

Cycles / Min: [Read Only]

See MechDesigner >Edit menu > Machine Settings]

Seconds / Cycle [Read Only]

Seconds / Cycle = 1÷ Cycles/Min

IMPORTANT: 'Cycle/Minute' [MechDesigner] and 'Motion-Width' [MotionDesigner]

To make sure the duration of the motion is correct in MotionDesigner, you must edit the machine-speed in MechDesigner. See MechDesigner > Edit menu > Machine Settings so that Seconds/Cycle is = the Motion Width.

For example: If you want a cycle time of 1200ms (milliseconds), then enter (60*1000)/1200 = 50 Cycles/Minute.

Then, if you change the X–axis units to msecs, one cycle will equal 1200msecs, and not 1000msecs.

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• Position Units: Units
•Y Velocity Units: Units/sec
•Y Acceleration Units: Units/sec/sec
•Y Jerk Units: Units/sec/sec/sec

Note: The scale of the model does not change when you edit 'Units'.

For example: 90mm becomes 0.090m or 3.543inches.

Motion Units

X–axis Units:

Units available:

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Y–axis Units:

Units available:

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X-axis Parameters

The settings for the X–axis.

'Degrees' at Start

'Units' at Start  [The unit is a function of the Motion Units - See Motion tab > Motion Units separator]

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Y-axis Parameters

Counts/Degree

Counts per 'Unit'

'Degrees' at Start

'Units' at Start

Counts at Start
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Number Format

Format

Number Format

Precision

Precision

Digits

Digits
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Motion Colors

☑Show Grid check-box [does not seem to do anything!]

Colours

Click a button next to the colour to open the Windows Colour Picker®

•Line: the colour of the plot that is not the Selected-Segment
•Grid: the colour of the vertical and horizontal 'Grid-Lines'
•Selected : the colour the Selected-Segment
•Background: the colour of the graph space
•Overlay: the colour of the Overlay Trace

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Sizes

Line Thickness

The thickness, in pixels, of the lines in the graph plot.

Maximum Line Thickness = 8

Symbol Size

The symbols in MotionDesigner are the triangles that represent the Blend-Points.

Maximum Symbol Size = 8

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