About Measure Results
Measures can help you understand and analyze the results of moving a mechanism and provide information to improve the mechanism's design.
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.
You can create these types of measure:
• Position, distance separation, velocity, acceleration, or cam measures using the Measure Results dialog box. You can also create system and rigid body measures that do not require a mass definition.
• Several additional types of dynamic measures using the Measure Results dialog box (requires a Mechanism Dynamics license).
• 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.
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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.
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The following table tells you which measures give the most useful information for each analysis type:
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Analysis
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Measures
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Kinematic
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• Position, Velocity, Acceleration
• Separation
• Creo Parametric features
• Degrees of Freedom
• Redundancies
• Time
• Rigid body orientation
• Rigid body angular velocity
• Rigid body angular acceleration
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Dynamic
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All except loadcell
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Static
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• Position
• Connection reaction
• Net load
• All system measures
• All rigid body measures
• Creo Parametric features
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Force Balance
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• Position
• Connection reaction
• Net load
• Loadcell
• All system measures
• All rigid body measures
• Creo Parametric features
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Position
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• Position
• Separation (distance)
• Time
• Rigid body angular acceleration
• Creo Parametric features
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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.
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Use display arrows for a visual representation of the changes your measures make during an analysis.
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