Welcome to the Human Measurements Editor User's Guide!
This guide is intended for users who need to quickly become familiar with the
product.
This overview provides the following information:
Human Measurements Editor is based on a best-in-class human modeling system which, for many years, has permitted detailed investigation into human-centered design issues in the context of a workplace before it physically exists.
The Human Measurements Editor specifically focuses on creating detailed digital humans for advanced human factors analysis and global target audience accommodation.
In addition to six default manikins, Human Measurements Editor users can create any human being from any population anywhere in the world. Users can amend all 103 anthropometric variables on the manikin or manipulate a smaller number of "critical" variables and ask the Human Measurements Editor to determine the rest. These variables can be altered manually by inputting desired measurements in percentile value, unit measurement, or by an intuitive "click and drag" graphical user interface.
The Human Measurements Editor also has the capacity to define the mean and standard deviation of all anthropometry variables. Using a unique multi-normal technique, the Human Measurements Editor ensures that resultant manikins do exist in the target population. In addition, it is possible to specify the percentage of the population to be accommodated in the design using the boundary manikin technique.
Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 5 products. It also describes the general layout of V5 and the interoperability between workbenches.
You may also like to read the Human Builder User's Guide, for which the appropriate license is required.
To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step Getting Started tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to access the Human Measurements Editor workbench from the start menu, the specification tree, and from the Manikin Tools toolbar.
Once you have finished, you should move on to the User Tasks section of the book that provides procedures for using the features of Human Measurements Editor.
The Workbench Description section describes each functional icon or command in the workbenches.
The Glossary provides definitions of terms specific to Human Measurements Editor and related products.
Navigating in the Split View mode is recommended. This mode offers a framed layout allowing direct access from the table of contents to the information.
To perform the scenarios, sample documents are provided. For more information about this, refer to "Accessing Sample Documents" in the Infrastructure User's Guide.