Our most popular course was designed to introduce new or unfamiliar users to the most powerful biomechanical software available. Through 8 hours of online videos, it teaches you all the techniques you need to start using Visual3D on your own and developing your own projects.
An essential part of reporting data is the inclusion of numerical parameters. Particularly when providing data that needs to be interpreted at a glance, many biomechanists choose to include specific numbers. In this chapter, we show you how to calculate some basic metrics, and then how to add them to a table.
When a biomechanical report is meant to be delivered to a patient, athlete, or professional customer, it is typically advisable to make a good impression at the first glance. In this chapter, we discuss some stylistic choices that can be made, particularly for creating a front page for your report.
One final element as part of this introduction to reporting data in Visual3D is the inclusion of Ground Reaction Force data. This is not particularly different from other graphs per se; however, some of the methods we use to do this highlight features that might otherwise go overlooked.
Automation is the key to setting up an effective biomechanics lab. In this unit of Visual3D Basics, we show you how to design a pipeline that automatically performs all the steps in the previous 3 units. We show you how to load files, build models, perform calculations, and report data by creating your own script.
Opening files can be a tedious task, and has little to no scientific significance. However, automating the loading of data not only saves time, but it can also prevent user error. In this chapter, we show you how to start designing your pipeline by explaining how to use commands to open the various files in a folder.
As we start the biomechanics side part of the automation, our focus is to reduce the number of clicks necessary. From opening a static trial to applying a biomechanical model and customizing it to a subject’s height and mass before assigning it to the dynamic motion trials, in this chapter, we show you some ways to design an efficient pipeline.
Beyond saving time, processing your data and performing calculations should be done in the same way for every data set in a project. Using a pipeline ensures that the series of calculations is done in the same way every time as it does not depend on user input. In this chapter, we show you how to set up the processing steps and how to perform biomechanical calculations in an automated way.
In this chapter, we introduce the use of a text editor that will greatly assist in your pipeline design. We show some tips and tricks to easily edit the pipelines you create in Visual3D to make development more efficient, and easier to annotate for later review.
The final chapter of this unit is dedicated to automatically generating a report from the pipeline. We previously showed you how to create a biomechanical report in Unit 3, and now we show you how to use it as part of your automation.
Expanding on the concepts from the first unit of Visual3D Basics, we focus on the upper body to introduce several key features to build biomechanical models. From landmarks to inverse kinematics, this unit shows step-by-step how to define all of the segments to track the motion of the elbow, shoulder, and cervical joints.