PC-Crash Features

PC-Crash 13.0 Two wheeled driver control

• Driver model to steer 2-wheeled vehicles

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PC-Crash 13.0 Backwards Trailer Simulation

• Chained vehicle motion backwards in time

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PC-Crash 13.0 New Occupants and Animated Pedestrians

• 3D models for vehicle occupants
• New animated pedestrians

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PC-Crash 13.0 High Resolution Screenshots

• Double-resolution screenshots

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PC-Crash 13.0 Machine Learning severity from photos

• Neural Network trained on photos
• Estimates the impact severity

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PC-Crash 12.1: 360 VR

• Use 360 images
• render VR video

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PC-Crash 12.1: Super-resolution image enhancement

• Bicubic image scaling

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PC-Crash 12.1: 360 panoramas & videos

• Use 360 images
• render VR video

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PC-Crash 12.1: Trailer Loads as DirectX Objects

• Load DirectX shapes
• scale and position

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PC Crash 12.1: Multibody Optimization

• Adjust Hue/Saturation/Lightness
• Brightness/Contrast, or Invert colors

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PC-Crash 12.0: Viewports

• Multiple Views at Once
• 2D - 3D options

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PC-Crash 12.0: Camera match improvements

• Background images now automatically toggle on-off
• Selection gets a zoomed-in target

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PC-Crash 12.0: Vehicle spring connections

• Attach springs dampers directly
• simulate rope, chains, or other connections

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PC Crash 12.0: Point cloud color control

• Adjust Hue/Saturation/Lightness
• Brightness/Contrast, or Invert colors

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PC-Crash 11.1: Shadows & Reflections

• Extensive 3D rendering improvements
• Including shadows, reflections, and lighting

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PC-Crash 11.1: Light sources on vehicles

• Attach light sources
• To vehicles

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PC-Crash 11.1: Solar position display

• Use the solar calculator
• Determine the sun’s position
• Put the sun in that position for your animation

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PC-Crash 11.1: Optimizer Log File

• Save a log file
• Using your Monte Carlo Collision Optimizer trials

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PC-Crash 11.1: Sequence labels

• Label your sequences
• For better organization

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PC-Crash 11.1: Looming

• Using sightlines
• Between vehicles

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PC-Crash 11.0: Texture mapping from background image

New Texture Mapping feature

• From photographic evidence
• Generate textured objects

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PC-Crash 11.0: New vehicle outlines

Vehicle outline wraps

• Improves contact detection
• New 3D vehicle envelopes

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PC-Crash 11.0 : Vehicle Display

Simulation playback feature

• Vehicles can now be shown or hidden
• At different times

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PC-Crash 11.0: UI Changes

User Interface updates

• new updates to the UI

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PC-Crash 11.0: Save impact parameters

Saving parameters

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PC-Crash 11.0: The Ribbon

• New organization
• Menus and tools

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PC-Crash 11.0 : E57 point clouds and UCS improvements

Load and save binary 3D scan / point clouds

• Much smaller
• Faster operations
• Simplified workflow

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PC-Crash 10.2: Powered multibody joints

Power your multibody simulations

• Build multibody vehicles
• Drive over pedestrians
• Wheels roll over objects

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PC-Crash 10.2: 3D camera matching

Use scene photos to recolor your scene

• Zoomed point selection
• Map photo data to your scene
• Use as textures on planes

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PC-Crash 10.2: Camera flight paths

Fly around your animations

• Move between predefined cameras
• Stay or move as you like
• Works in preview too

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PC-Crash 10.2: Time-varying multibody joints

Change joint stiffness over time

• Specify piecewise-linear stiffness
• Use for braking or acceleration
• Rotational or translational joints

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PC-Crash 10.2: 3D scan improvements

Positioning scans is now a snap

• Define a zero plane
• Move scans to new layers
• Improved point selection

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PC-Crash 10.2: Program Active Safety

New Visual Programming Interface

• Cars can sense each other
• Program your own control logic
• Reuse program blocks

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PC-Crash 10.1: New Orthographic Views

2D from a new perspective

• Work on your project from new viewpoints
• Save custom views in your project
• Change coordinate systems to match your view

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PC-Crash 10.1: Advanced Optimizer

More power, more control

• Optimize on over 40 parameters
• Braking, steering, even geometry or inertia
• Use other collision models, or no collision at all

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PC-Crash 10.1: New Multibody Joint Speeds

Powered joints

• Set a linear or angular joint velocity
• Build a Multibody vehicle to drive over stuff
• Make realistic rotating wheels

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PC-Crash 10.1: Full Vehicle FEA

A new frontier in accident reconstruction software

• NCAC validated vehicle models
• Runs in hours
• Batch control

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PC-Crash 10.1: Point Cloud Improvements

More power and convenience

• More flexible selection and editing
• Filtering to reduce complexity

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PC-Crash 10.1: 3D Improvements

• Save camera views in your project
• Transparency for any object or color
• Recolor DirectX vehicles by part
• ... and much more

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PC-Crash 10.1: Camera Position Optimizer

Go from scene photo to data

• Find where a photo was taken
• Map photo features to your scene
• Use aerail photos, survey data or 3D scanner clouds

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Point Clouds

3D spaces made from points!

• Use for vehicles and scenes
• .xyz .xyzrgb file formats
• Supports tens of millions of points

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MultiBody Joint Types

More control

• Now with pins, pistons, universal joints and more
• Use joint limits for more realism
• Build complex systems like motorcycles with rotating wheel and compressible forks

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Finite Element Analysis

Full FEA in PC-Crash

• Create, edit, compute, display
• Multiple element types and materials
• Batch processing

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Antiroll Forces

On suspension models

• Generate additional suspension load based on left/right differential compression
• Use different antiroll factors for each axle

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Traffic lights

Show light phase in your simulation

• Traffic lights that change phase
• Customizable sequence tables
• Seen in 3D and 2D

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