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Set up and run a motion analysis, plot the results, and export the results.
Motion Analyst
The Analyst profile functions as a feature-rich pre-processor, originally inspired by the needs of the automotive industry. Utilizing a hard-point design approach, it provides access to the full suite of MotionSolve features and capabilities. The Analyst profile offers unparalleled flexibility in system modeling and can be highly tailored to specific industry requirements. However, this versatility comes with increased complexity, requiring a higher level of MBD expertise and a specialized mindset for effective use.
Motion Analysis
Run a motion analysis, plot the results, and extract the results for use in structural (FE) analysis and optimization.
Check Model
Check Model detects errors such as negative mass for a body and negative diameter for a beam. The types of checks that are conducted are specific to entity types.

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Variables
Create and assign variables to parametrize a model. This allows you to quickly iterate and compare design concepts by tweaking the values of the variables.
Parametric Modeling
Create parametric sketches, geometry, and PolyNURBS with construction history and variables.
Implicit Modeling
Create implicit models with primitives, lattices, point clouds, fields, offsetting, Booleans, inverting, smoothing, morphing, and filleting.
Structures
Set up your model and run a structural analysis or optimization.
Motion
Set up and run a motion analysis, plot the results, and export the results.
- Motion Designer
  The Designer profile adopts a user-centric approach, prioritizing accessibility and ease of use over complexity. While its feature set is less extensive than that of the Analyst profile, it compensates by streamlining functionality and abstracting complexities through intuitive user interactions. This simplicity empowers users outside the traditional Multibody Dynamics (MBD) community to achieve their objectives efficiently, requiring minimal familiarity with MBD.
- Motion Analyst
  The Analyst profile functions as a feature-rich pre-processor, originally inspired by the needs of the automotive industry. Utilizing a hard-point design approach, it provides access to the full suite of MotionSolve features and capabilities. The Analyst profile offers unparalleled flexibility in system modeling and can be highly tailored to specific industry requirements. However, this versatility comes with increased complexity, requiring a higher level of MBD expertise and a specialized mindset for effective use.
  - Attachments
    Attachments offer a means to connect definition-based analyst entities such as systems, analyses, data sets and templates.
  - Motion Create
  - Motion Connections
    Define motion connections by grounding parts and creating rigid groups and joints.
  - Motion Forces
    Apply motors, actuators, springs, and gravity to define the elements for a motion analysis.
  - Flexible Bodies
    Convert rigid bodies or rigid groups to flexible bodies and review flexible body modes before running a motion analysis.
  - Motion References
  - Motion Measurements
  - Motion Control
  - Motion Analysis
    Run a motion analysis, plot the results, and extract the results for use in structural (FE) analysis and optimization.
    - Analyze Motion
      Use the Analyze Motion tool to run and review the results of a motion analysis.
    - Review Flexible Body Results
      Review and animate flexible body results including local deformations, stress, and strain apart from the rigid body results.
    - Force Explorer
      Use the Force Explorer tool to visualize force and torque vectors in a motion analysis.
    - Tracers
      Use the Tracers tools to visualize the path of a trace part or trace point during a motion run.
    - Topology Explorer
      Graphically view and edit model connections. This allows for faster and easier debugging, editing, and understanding of model connections.
    - Check Model
      Check Model detects errors such as negative mass for a body and negative diameter for a beam. The types of checks that are conducted are specific to entity types.
    - Interference Detection
      Detect interferences and conditions of tangency between parts, then view detailed results on where they occur in a motion analysis.
Fluids
Prepare and run a computational fluid dynamics simulation.
Design Explorer
Evaluate designs by using geometric variables and applying a design-of-experiments (DOE) or optimization method. We recommend fully constraining your sketch when sketch variables are used in the design exploration.
Manufacture
Set up and run a basic porosity or thinning analysis.
Print 3D
Prepare and run an additive manufacturing simulation, and export a file for 3D printing.
Rendering
Adjust the materials and environment of objects in the scene to create a photorealistic image.
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Check Model

Check Model detects errors such as negative mass for a body and negative diameter for a beam. The types of checks that are conducted are specific to entity types.

Check for Model Errors

Search for unresolved references and invalid data in the model. If errors in the model are detected, open a .txt file to review them.

On the Motion ribbon, under Profile, select Analyst.
Under Check, select the Check tool.

Tip: To find and open a tool, press Ctrl+F. For more information, see Find and Search for Tools.

The check is launched. Once complete, a message appears.
To open a .txt file and review any model errors, click the Details button.