Edit postures and activity conditions

This section presents the topics related to reviewing the model’s posture and defining conditions that affect the analysis.

After entering or capturing a posture, you may need to check its angles, specify whether it is seated, enter loads or forces, or define time-related conditions such as action duration and repetitiveness.

Available topics

• Postural information: displays the model’s posture angles and lets you export that information in CSV format.

• Seated posture: explains how to specify that the model is seated and how this condition affects analyses.

• Define hand loads and moments: enters loads or forces applied to the hands and their associated moments.

• Loads on body segments: enters loads applied to specific joints or body segments.

• Action duration and repetitiveness: defines how a posture is interpreted over time in Single posture mode.

Review before analysis

Before interpreting the results, confirm that the posture and its associated conditions accurately represent the actual task. In particular, check that:

• the model’s posture is consistent with the observed posture;
• the posture angles are reasonable;
• loads are defined at the correct location and in the correct direction;
• the seated condition is assigned correctly, when applicable;
• action duration or repetitiveness is configured appropriately.

When working with a time-based posture sequence, also see Posture-sequence analysis and Timeline.