If you are talking about ADAMS/View then the Getting Started : Latch tutorial is a good place to start. If you can complete it correctly then it may be worth looking round elsewhere.

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Thank you very much for your answer. I finished the latch not long ago and am now trying to work on Adams Car for a bicycle project. I'm a little lost and not sure where to continue. I previously wanted to make it on Adams View but didn't know how to get hollow cylinders, I don't know if that was an unnecessary worry though and if I can just use what is there.

There's a couple of ways of making hollow cylinders. I'm not a VIEW user, so take this with a pinch of salt. The lazy way (mine) would be to work out the mass properties for each tube and type them in. Alternatively you can do a Boolean operation and subtract the hollow from the solid. That is assuming that tubes aren't directly available.

I think you are going to run into various problems using Car for bikes. The first is that the static equilibrium position for a bike is lying on its side on the ground, which is not very useful.


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I see, thank you very much, I think the lazy way should work. I will try to use Adams View first then