The Dynamics Visualizer Tab
- Marc Lievin
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 ... |
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Collision Geometries |
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Collision geometries in color (CGÂ Colorization) | No shortcut key, use check box to select |
Center of Mass |
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Constraints |
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Part Origins |
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Inertia |
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Contacts |
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Enable Mouse Spring | No shortcut key, use check box to select |
* For the Contact Normal Visualization, we use the following terminology
Matched: The contact was associated to a contact from the previous frame
Matched and Sliding: The contact is matched and is currently sliding
Unmatched: The contact was not associated to a contact from the previous frame
Unmatched and Sliding: The contact is unmatched and is currently sliding
(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 |
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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 where the dynamics and graphics are on the same node. Launching simapp.exe for example