ADAMS/Hydraulics Release Notes

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What's New

The following enhancements have been made to ADAMS/Hydraulics for the 2005 release:

Modeling Enhancements

  • Linux Support: ADAMS/Hydraulics 2005 is now supported on the Linux operating system (Red Hat Linux 9.0).
  • Added air and helium real gas options to the gas-charged accumulator component.
  • Added Cd parameters to the Cylinder1 (cyl1) and Cylinder2 (cyl2) components. In previous releases, these values were hardcoded. Now, the hardcoded values are the default values and you have the option to change them.
  • Mechanical coupling option for Pump/Motor3 and Generic Pump/Motor2.
  • Added Electric Pressure Function to Pressure Reducing Valve3.

Usability Enhancements

  • Enhanced several error messages.
  • Added dynamic icons for Directional Control Valve2w2, Directional Control Valve3w2, Directional Control Valve4w3, Servovalve4w3, and Spoolvalve4w3p.
Documentation Enhancements

Overall Documentation Improvements

For MSC.ADAMS 2005, we've made improvements to the MSC.ADAMS help:

  • Added global search so you can search across the entire set of MSC.ADAMS help. To access the global search, do one of the following:

    • At the top of the help, select Switch Products, and then select the Search tab.

    • In any product, select the Search tab, and then in the window that appears, select Global Search.

    Note that the global search does not include any .pdfs (including getting started guides and ADAMS/Driver).

  • Removed any hardcoding of font sizes so you can scale the text of the help to any size. Please note that many of the equations do not scale because they are images, and the help looks the best when viewed with medium (or 100%). In addition, your browser will print the text the same size as it is displayed.

  • Documented many of the environment variables for the products to help customize your session. The environment variables are for ADAMS/Controls, ADAMS/Durability, ADAMS/Flex, ADAMS/Solver, ADAMS/View, and the template-based products (ADAMS/Aircraft, ADAMS/Car, ADAMS/Driveline, ADAMS/Rail). For more information, see the Running and Configuring help.

 

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Issues Resolved

In the previous version of ADAMS/Hydraulics, icon labels were appearing at the model origin rather than the appropriate locations. This bug has been resolved.

The Cartridge Valve 3D and Shuttle Valve components have been updated to improve static robustness.

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Revised: 09/06/05