Tire graphics parameters

Hello everybody,

In help file are written 5 parameters for setup tire graphics. Unloaded_radius, Width, Aspect_Ratio are working, i can see change of tire graphics, but changing valus of Rim_radius, Rim_width do not change graphics of tire.

Are those two parameters somehow special, working for some tire model, or what am i missing?

Thanks

Jozef

0 Martin Kieltsch over 7 years ago

In the past it at least reacted to setting the aspect ratio in the tire property file:

[DIMENSION]

UNLOADED_RADIUS        = 340.6

WIDTH                  = 255.0

ASPECT_RATIO           = 0.8

FTire has additional values in some demo properties:

$----------------------------------------------------------------------DIMENSION

[DIMENSION]

$these data are not used by FTire, but only by the calling solver

unloaded_radius =                317.446               $ mm

width =                          225                   $ mm

aspect_ratio =                   0.4                   $ -

rim_radius =                     228.6                 $ mm

rim_width =                      190.5                 $ mm

But if you change them, the tire graphics don't follow.

Seems they're somewhat outdated.

But who cares ?

The MSC tire graphic is just to give you a rough idea where the tire is. If you need something nice for showing off to your boss, you'll need some CAD files anyway.

For our environment I prepared a couple of shells that are loaded by a dbox upon user demand.
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0 jozef.bucha over 7 years ago

Thanks for response

Yes,
unloaded radius, width and aspect ratio works fine but rim radius and rim width are dead but mentioned in help. I am using shells to "impress" someone directly in tir file as external graphics parameter.

Regards

Jozef
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0 Micha over 7 years ago

there are ways to impress even more with your virtual tire
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