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User's Guide

Welcome to the OpenSim User's Guide!

To begin learning more about how to use the OpenSim software, step through the pages in this user guide. The chapters are listed below.

Or if you know what you would like to read about, use the search bar in the top right to expedite the process.

Chapters of the User's Guide

  • Introducing OpenSim
  • Installation Guide
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Loading and Saving Models and Motion Data
  • Navigator Window
  • Coordinates Window
  • Snapshots and Movies
  • Model Editing
  • Excitation Editor
  • Plotting
  • Overview of OpenSim Workflows
  • Preparing Your Data
  • Scaling
  • Inverse Kinematics
  • IMU Placer
  • IMU Inverse Kinematics
  • Inverse Dynamics
  • Static Optimization
  • Forward Dynamics
  • Residual Reduction Algorithm
  • Computed Muscle Control
  • Analyses
  • Induced Acceleration Analysis
  • Joint Reactions Analysis
  • Probes
  • OpenSim Models
  • Command Line Utilities
  • Video Gallery

The National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research (NCSRR) is a National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research supported by NIH research infrastructure grants R24 HD065690 and P2C HD065690. OpenSim is also supported by the Mobilize Center, an NIH Big Data to Knowledge Center, grant U54 EB020405, and by DARPA through the Warrior Web Program. See the People page for a list of the many people who have contributed to the OpenSim project over the years. ©2010-2017 NCSRR. All rights reserved.

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