For kicks I took a look at the FSAE A/Car templates supplied by MSC. First, thank you to MSC for supporting FSAE and the students. What I found was the templates date back to Adams version 11.0 and other than the powertain they have not had any topology updates. For students (novice adams users) these templates would be frustrating to use or unusable.
I've started to weed-out some the "gotchas" and create some new templates that are more representative of a Formla SAE car topology (single rear brake, chain drive, t-bar swaybars etc..). I'd like to hear from anyone that has done similar work, so that I can incorporate those ideas.
I am currently working with 2005 R2. I will wait until the 2005 R2 templates are completed before moving the templates over to MD R3.
John Burford