Overview:
Adjusting suspension angles is crucial for optimizing vehicle handling, tire wear, and overall performance. The ability to customize the camber, caster, and toe angles of your suspension effectively can be the difference between first or last place when it comes to motorsport. For this purpose, a modified front suspension model has been created to explore the change in suspension angles through suspension hardpoint shimming.
These suspension shims are small, flat pieces of material used in a vehicle's suspension system to adjust and fine-tune various aspects of the suspension setup.
Follow along with the below video series which covers the entire process of:
- Assembling a front half car model using the Assembly Wizard
- Creating a new lower control arm system to feature these shim and top hat entities
- Using the same techniques to modify the upper control arm and tierod
- Easily defining a Kinematics and Compliance event and understanding the automatic Suspension Design Factor outputs
- Integrating HyperStudy to optimize the suspension for a given toe and camber angle target
- Completing a DOE to better understand sensitivity factors and generating a Pareto Front of solutions.
Prerequisite:
For a complete understanding of all topics covered in this video, it is recommended to have completed both the MotionView/MotionSolve Introduction v2023 eLearning and MotionSolve v2023 for Vehicle Modeling eLearning, although it is not strictly required.
Release Version: 2025.0
Completed Model:
