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Supported Functions

SolidWorks Motion supports many functions and expression functions. You can enter these functions in the Expression boxes of the Motor or Force PropertyManagers. You can use these expression functions to define a wide variety of non-standard phenomena in your model in a Motion Analysis study.

Supported Functions

Function name:

Summary definition:

ABS

Absolute value of (a)

ACOS

Arc cosine of (a)

AINT

Nearest integer whose magnitude is not larger than (a)

ANINT

Nearest whole number to (a)

ASIN

Arc sine of (a)

ATAN

Arc tangent of (a)

ATAN2

Arc tangent of (a1, a2)

COS

Cosine of (a)

COSH

Hyperbolic cosine of (a)

DIM

Positive difference of a1 and a2

EXP

e raised to the power of (a)

LOG

Natural logarithm of (a)

LOG10

Log to base 10 of (a)

MAX

Maximum of a1 and a2

MIN

Minimum of a1 and a2

MOD

Remainder when a1 is divided by a2

SIGN

Transfer sign of a2 to magnitude of a1

SIN

Sine of (a)

SINH

Hyperbolic sine of (a)

SQRT

Square root of a1

STEP

Smoothed step function

TAN

Tangent of (a)

TANH

Hyperbolic tangent of (a)

Simulation Constants and Variables

Function name:

Summary definition:

DTOR

Degrees to radians conversion factor

PI

Ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle

RTOD

Radians to degrees conversion factor

TIME

Current simulation time

Operators

Function name:

Summary definition:

IF

Defines a function expression



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