All, I’m headed to PRI this week and will of course stop at the Aim booth.
Let me know if you have any specific questions you want me to ask and I will take note as best I can word for word their comments.
I’m 99% sure that distance travelled uses the line as measured by GPS. I can see on RS3 for each lap of a session, both time and distance plots for the segment. Also in another window vehicle track position is shown in Google maps
I think that there is a baseline distance for each segment when the track map is initially created. I’m guessing here.
Are you all using the same .drk files for comparing RS2 with RS3?
I open RS2 analysis from RS3, and the sessions are already there ready to open
thanks, I would like to know if there are any fundamental advancements in how the time compare chart is created, that makes RS3 a better data tool than RS2
I received an out of office response from Robinson saying that he was going to be at PRI. I hope you get a chance to discuss the topics in this thread.
Also, I’d love to know:
- why they removed the accelerometer and gyro from the Mtchron5S.
- How are the determining the gyro information on the 5S.
Thank you!
I’ll let you guys know. I’ll try and get audio if they’re up for it !
In the meantime feel free to pile in the questions.
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I find it not bad, even on my cheapo laptop
Update: spoke to Roger head of training at AIM. He said it would be a smart idea to do a few webinars to answer the questions on this thread. He said he read it partially but has been busy with PRI.
So, look for some cool things coming up.
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I hope the webinars are more succinct. The ones on YouTube are 4x longer than they need to be.
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Thats good feedback thanks for this.
I’ve never used a software tool that relied on webinars in lieu of documentation, and I don’t understand why AIM does this
To be fair to AIM, it’s not difficult to navigate and learn the software to use it for basic and intermediate data analysis. I’ve never watched one of their webinars and I am pretty proficient in all the important things you actually need to analyze to go faster. And that’s how 99% of people use the software.
For more in depth and deep engineering focused analysis you need to dig a bit deeper to find that info I guess.
Webinars are such an inefficient source of reference material, though. They are great for real-time participants and actual dialog on complex things - but if you need a focused bit of information you spend several times longer trying to dig it out of a webinar (or series of webinars!) than you do a document.
Even if publisher of the webinar does a great job creating a timestamped reference, simply watching the webinar at the provided timestamp for what you’re interested in will inevitably take longer than reading it - and that’s true of every time you go back to reference it in the future.
I think that’s very dependent on the person. I’m decidedly not a software user on a developer level or a SAAS type person constantly reading or coding. While I’m a ‘digital native,’ I do appreciate worked examples and applied instruction.
Aim could absolutely have more documentation. But with something like driving analysis and using the software having a tutorial on a new feature is invaluable to someone like me.
That said, if I’m looking for a quick fix or a quick solution I hate it when a company wants me to watch a tutorial or a FAQ landing page article. I just want to talk to a live person or have the answer step by step written out in an easy to find place. So I like it both ways at varying times.
Where AIM really screwed up is the webinars are obsolete for the latest versions of RS3. Most of the button locations and icons were significantly moved, so there’s extremely little value in the webinar even if it was efficient.
I came into it with professional motorsport experience, and it was still frustrating to learn how to do basic things like custom splits or deal with changing course layouts. For the last several months, I have been unable to get it to plot distance, and their tech support was useless. I told them what version I was using, and their first response was “what version are you using?” a week later.
Caleb, What do mean you couldn’t get it to “plot distance”? Were you trying to change the time/distance plots from time to distance? See below, this is a distance based plot of RPM and Gsum.
I found AiM pretty responsive within a day. I haven’t been able to solve the problem that I have but they provided my with a solution but I can’t seem to figure it out, yet.
I’ve been sorta down on RS3 but I’ve taken a 180 on RS2 vs RS3. I have found that RS3 is significantly better than RS2 and I don’t think I’ll be going back to RS2.
Yeah, I used to be able to plot by distance, but now it just gives an error. It counts laps correctly, and I can create a new track from the data, but when plotting by time, the distance annotation is just [-]. Same thing with data from either my 5S or my daughter’s 5
So you don’t have the tiny ruler button/icon? If you don’t have, I would delete RS3 and reload the latest version or email your problem to AiM.
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I do have it; that’s what pops up an error saying it won’t do distance. Prior to clicking that button, I know it’ll fail because, where yours says time and distance where I circled it, mine says time and [-].
First thing I tried was to install the beta release, and it did it as well.