Timeline Event Viewer

Timeline is a graphical utility for specifying and visualizing time-based events.

Timeline consists of two components: an Event Viewer and an Event Editor. The viewer helps engineers validate event setup by displaying curves and seeing how loads will act on a model during analysis — their activation and deactivation times and how their magnitude changes over time. With the editor, users enter curves into a spreadsheet-style dialog to define individual events or loads. Curves can also be generated using the built-in functions, a start time and an end time.

Timeline features:

• the ability to click and drag points on a plot display;
• a built-in equation editor for creating event curves;
• depiction of various event curves on a single plot or multiple plots;
• presentation support, including capabilities to save curves as images for reports;
• a library for saving commonly used curves; and
• the ability to exchange curve data with Microsoft^® Excel or other applications through the use of a comma-separated value file.

Timeline Event Editor

The built-in equation editor: 

• Supports a single variable (x);
• Includes 20 built-in functions; and
• Includes support for the constant PI.