Setting up MassZone Predictions Using Animation Paths

Animation tools provide an easy and predictable way to calculate crash predictions with MassZone. You can also fine tune aspects of the crash by comparing the animation to the MassZone prediction.

To use animation paths to set up MassZone predictions:

1. Create a collision animation that includes any number of vehicles. In the animation settings, include the paths, speeds, and synchronized points.



2. Synchronize the animated vehicles to intersect at the same time. The animation playback uses the settings that you configured settings. For the vehicles to intersect at the same time, you'll need to configure the vehicles so they intersect at those specific KEPs (Animation Key Event Points). In an animation, the vehicles pass through each other as they complete their travel paths.



3. Select the first animation path, and then from the tool panel, click Add to MassZone. (You can also right click the animation path and select Add to MassZone from the context menu.) This adds the model to the MassZone Universe (MZU).

4. Repeat the previous step for the second animation path.

5. Open the MZU Control Panel.

   
   

6. Click Calculate Prediction. The vehicles follow the animation path until the collision occurs, and then the MZU prediction calculations override the animation. The vehicles collide, damage and positions are calculated, and then the vehicles come to rest.



7. Compare the MZU prediction with the animation. Use the tools in the MZU Control Panel to run the prediction. Use the animation controls to run the animation.

8. Save the prediction by saving the project as a FARO Zone (.FZProj) file. You are prompted to save periodically when MassZone data is detected.