Can time-variant objects be considered in the WinProp API?

Matthias Goelke_22079
Matthias Goelke_22079 New Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Can time-variant objects be considered in the WinProp API?

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  • Matthias Goelke_22079
    Matthias Goelke_22079 New Altair Community Member
    edited December 2016

    With PRO-V the WallMan tool allows to define time-variant objects (group of polygons and trajectories of movement including speed profile) and then the corresponding object data can be saved for various time steps in individual databases (i.e. one idb file per time step).

    In the API it is then possible to define one database (i.e. one idb file) for the simulation, based on this approach the WinProp API function can be called subsequently with different idb files for the multiple time steps.

    So the main benefit of adding the PRO-V module is in the additional WallMan functionalities (WallMan does not run under the API, i.e. the additional functionalities are in the WallMan GUI version), while for running the predictions there will be no additional feature, but the WinProp_Predict function from the API can be called for each time step with a separate idb file.

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