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Notice that the window like all other windows in the AnyBody Modeling
System is divided into a tree pane on the left and the actual data area
to the right. If you play around a bit with the tree you will soon see that
it resembles the trees from most of the other window types, but that
some stuff is missing. This is because the tree is filtered, and it requires
a further explanation:
The AnyBody Modeling System contains a special type of data called
output data. This is essentially what comes out of a computation.
Output data is organized in series with one item for each time step of
the analysis, so the output data is not available until an analysis has
been performed. The tree in the Chart View has been filtered such that
you only see the output data. This makes browsing a bit less confusing.
However, the tree retains its basic structure, so to get to useful data
you normally have to expand the tree through
Main.ArmStudy.Output.Model. Notice that the other option next to
Output is Abscissa. The standard Abscissa in an
InverseDynamicAnalysis is time, so if you expand the Abscissa branch
and click the 't' variable, you will get a straight line with slope 1
because you are plotting time against time.
Global output data
Directly under output you also find some data pertaining to the "global" properties of the model:
• Ekin - the total kinetic energy of the system
• Epot - the total potential energy of the system
• Emech - the total mechanical energy of the system, i.e. the sum of potential and kinetic energies
• Pmech - the mechanical power of the system