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Set up and run a motion analysis, plot the results, and export the results.

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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.
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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Motion

Set up and run a motion analysis, plot the results, and export the results.

Inspire Motion provides Multibody Simulation (MBS) capabilities to analyze the motion, dynamics, and interactions of interconnected rigid or flexible bodies within a system. The approach to MBS can vary depending on your perspective and objectives.

To address this diversity, Inspire Motion offers a versatile framework tailored to different user roles through two distinct profiles.

Designer Profile:
Designers typically begin with CAD, leveraging existing geometrical features to define the connections within their mechanisms. The primary objective is to evaluate the performance and functionality of an existing design.
Analyst Profile:
Analysts often start with a blank slate, employing a hard-point-based design approach. Hard points represent critical locations, such as mounting points or load-bearing connections within and between assemblies. Using these points, mechanisms are constructed with simplified primitive shapes. Joints, located at the hard points, are conceptual in nature. The focus here is on gaining a fundamental understanding of how a new mechanism might function before applying detailed shapes or refinement.

This dual profile approach allows Inspire Motion to cater to both the refinement of existing designs and the conceptual development of new mechanisms, offering flexibility and precision for diverse user needs.