Is there a method to specify an specific folder other than the one in the project database in the Local Hard drive to store Flexible body files?

Hello,

We are looking for a environmental variable or equivalent method to specify a predefined location where to store the flexible body files (.mnf).

To give an example, there is the possibility to do a similar procedure to use subroutines in ADAMS/Car: "Use a common folder for all the subroutines: The environment variable MDI_USER_PLUGIN_DIR can be used to specify a comma-separated list of locations where Adams/Solver library files (.dll, .sl, .so) exist." Do we have an equivalent for Flexible bodies?

Any suggestion?

0 jozef.bucha over 7 years ago

What is reason of your intention? The need to manually copy mnf files? Because you can with right mouse click use browse and find mnf file everywhere on hard drive.
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0 badri.shirgur over 7 years ago

I usually manually edit each flex body location to a subfolder in the working directory. An example of that would be

\local_folder\star.mnf

This allows me to copy/move my .cmd files to a new folder and then create a subfolder in the new folder to store all the mnfs. I then don't have to point the flex bodies to the new location of the mnf files.
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0 Martin Kieltsch over 7 years ago

Well in that case you didn't get the idea of A/Car databases and you create loads of obsolete data on your HDD (mnfs usually have huge file size)

By using <my_database>/flex_bodies.tbl/xxx.mnf you already have a fixed & reproduceable destination.

If you "move" or "copy" the whole project, it means you relocate the whole cdb as all your model is there, too.

You can even "switch cdb's" by simply changing some "!" chars in your .acar.cfg

DATABASE example /home/xxx/DATABASES/yyy.cdb

!DATABASE example /home/xxx/DATABASES/alternative_yyy.cdb
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0 Maziar R over 7 years ago

Hi Javier,

Currently, there is no env. variables for this purpose. However, as you know, you can always modify the CMD or ADM such that it references a PATH to the MNF file of choice in a different directory.

Thanks,

Maziar
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0 Fredrik Sjogren over 7 years ago

Hi Javier,

If you are looking for a common way of storing your mnf files accross the organization, avoiding to have duplicates of mnfs in different Car databases, you can create a separate Car database specifically for your mnfs. Then subsysstems can reference this single common database for the mnfs.
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