HVE Software Manual (Markdown Edition)

This is the HVE (Human Vehicle Environment) manual. It brings together the HVE on-line help, the HVE User's Manual and the individual physics program manuals in a single, searchable set, revised throughout to describe the current version of the software.

Each manual is also available as a PDF for printing or offline reading — see PDF Downloads.

Where a dialog, option or default has changed since the printed manuals were published, the page describes the current behavior and marks the change with an (updated: …) note. Options that no longer exist have been removed or flagged, and options that were previously undocumented are now described.

Contents

Section	Covers
01 — User Interface	3-D editor, preferences, units, playback, cameras, rendering, grids, lights, overlays, text
02 — Vehicles	Vehicle information, inertias, sprung mass, payload, CG, stiffness coefficients (A/B), body torsion, aerodynamic drag
03 — Suspension & Steering	Suspension data, springs/shocks, jounce/rebound, roll steer, camber, anti-pitch, spindle axis, steering system, wheel locations
04 — Brakes & Powertrain	Brake assemblies and designer (disc, dual-piston, wedge, duo-servo, duplex), brake tables, drivetrain, transmission, differential
05 — Tires & Wheels	Tire data, friction, physical data, Fy vs. inclination, slip vs. rolloff, wheels
06 — Safety Systems	Air bags, belt restraint systems, accelerometers
07 — Humans	Human models, human information, CG, joint properties, material properties
08 — Environment	Environment information, surfaces, contact surfaces, materials, friction, geometry primitives (box, cone, cylinder, sphere, ellipsoid)
09 — Events & Driver Controls	Event setup, position/velocity, driver controls (steering, braking, throttle), contacts, inter-vehicle connections, simulation controls
10 — Calculation Options	Per-model calculation options: EDCRASH, EDGEN, EDHIS, EDSMAC, EDSMAC4, EDSVS, EDVDS, EDVSM, EDVTS
11 — Reports & Output	Accident history, damage data, collision pulse, trajectory and variable-output reports/graphs

Program Manuals

Updated Markdown editions of the HVE program manuals, each reviewed against the current physics engine and application code:

• EDCRASH
• EDGEN
• EDHIS
• EDSMAC
• EDSMAC4
• EDSVS
• EDVDS
• EDVSM
• EDVTS
• SIMON
• DyMESH
• GATB
• RDF
• Damage Studio

HVE User's Manual

Updated Markdown edition of the HVE User's Manual (Version 5, Seventh Edition), in hve-users/:

Section	Covers
01 — Overview	Using HVE, What is HVE?, How to use HVE
02 — Menu Reference	Files, Set-up, View, Options, Help menus
03 — Human Editor	Creating/editing humans, human model definition
04 — Vehicle Editor	Creating/editing vehicles, vehicle model definition
05 — Environment Editor	Creating/editing environments, environment model definition
06 — Event Editor	Creating/editing events, event model definition
07 — Playback Editor	Report/playback windows, editing the event sequence
08 — 3-D Editor	3-D editor, object tools, manipulators, tutorial
09 — Video Output	Video basics, HVE video interface
10 — Brake Designer	HVE Brake Designer
11 — Appendices	Back matter