The Dynamics Visualizer Tab



The Dynamics Visualizer tab on the Player interface shows options for that you can use to show information about dynamics entities in your simulation, such as CGs, constraints, and more.

To add a Dynamics Visualizer tab on a player, a Dynamics Visualizer Page must be added to the setup file. A Dynamics Visualizer extension and a Contact Visualizer extension must be assigned to the DynamicsVisualizer Extension and ContactVisualizer Extension fields.

(1) For convenience, some of the visualization options have a short key that you can use:

To See ...

Press ...

To See ...

Press ...

Collision Geometries

Shift+G or select checkbox

Collision geometries in color (CG Colorization)

No shortkey, use check box to select

Center of Mass

Shift+M or select checkbox

Constraints

Shift+J or select checkbox

Part Origins

Alt+Shift+M or select checkbox

Inertia

Shift+I or select checkbox

Contacts

Shift+C or select checkbox

Enable Mouse Spring

No shortkey, use check box to select

(2) To set the scale factor that the system applies to displayed contact lines, use the selector to specify a scale factor.

(3) You can select one or more of the following display modes:

Display Mode

Description

Display Mode

Description

Normal

Shows the normal force response

Force

Shows the contact force

Torque

Shows the torque option for supported types of contacts

Penetration

Shows the amount of penetration

Direction

Shows the direction of the contact force

The Dynamics Visualizer page will only work in a single node application were the dynamics and graphics are on the same node. Launching simapp.exe for example