About Measure Results

Before you can calculate and view measure results, you must have run one or more analyses of your mechanism and saved and restored analysis result sets.

• Position, distance separation, velocity, acceleration, or cam measures using the Measure Results dialog box. You can also create system and body measures that do not require a mass definition.

• Analysis measure features using the Analysis Definition dialog box. Distance and angle analysis measures are the most useful types of datum analyses for graphing measure results.

For information on creating an analysis measure, or using the measures as parameters when you run a Creo Behavioral Modeling motion analysis, search the Help Center.

Analysis	Measures
Kinematic	• Position, Velocity, Acceleration • Separation • Creo Parametric features • Degrees of Freedom • Redundancies • Time • Body orientation • Body angular velocity • Body angular acceleration
Dynamic	All except loadcell
Static	• Position • Connection reaction • Net load • All system measures • All body measures • Creo Parametric features
Force Balance	• Position • Connection reaction • Net load • Loadcell • All system measures • All body measures • Creo Parametric features
Position	• Position • Separation (distance) • Time • Body angular acceleration • Creo Parametric features

You can graph the results of a measure for one or more Mechanism Design or Mechanism Dynamics analyses. You can retrieve a saved results file, save the measure results to a table file, or print them.

It is normally more efficient to create measures before you run an analysis. Measures that you create after running an analysis require that the software compute the evaluations before it creates the graph. These measures will take more time to graph when compared with measures that you create before running an analysis. Sometimes measures are not computed after the initial analysis run. In this case, run the analysis a second time.

Use graphing to plot a measure over time or a measure against another measure. You can create a graph of multiple measure curves for one set of analysis results, or you can see how a single measure varies with different result sets. You can also graph multiple measures with multiple analyses.