Thank you very much. Those examples should be more than enough to help me 
get started.

On Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 9:25:54 AM UTC-6 [email protected] 
wrote:

> I don't know what you are trying to do: in your latest example 'shaft' and 
> 'base' have two links pointing in two different directions. Did you want to 
> link to ground instead?
> Moreover, the motor already provides the revolute joint embedded. So you 
> are duplicating the joint.
>
> And also, you enabled collision straight away: in this case it's not 
> really needed and I would disable it for now.
>
> I strongly recommend you to start from demos and then add on top of them.
> BTW, by pressing the 'i' button of the keyboard during simulation you can 
> get a panel in which you can enable some settings.
>
> Here is the documentation about links and motors (depending on your 
> PyChrono version there might be some differences):
> https://api.projectchrono.org/development/links.html
> https://api.projectchrono.org/development/motors.html
>
> Here some useful demos:
>
> https://github.com/projectchrono/chrono/blob/main/src/demos/python/mbs/demo_MBS_crank_plot.py
>
> https://github.com/projectchrono/chrono/blob/main/src/demos/python/mbs/demo_MBS_motors.py
>
> Il giorno giovedì 22 febbraio 2024 alle 01:30:39 UTC+1 T-Lind ha scritto:
>
>> I've also set up this simpler example here 
>> <https://github.com/T-Lind/chrono-sim/blob/master/just_motor.py>:
>> [image: Screenshot 2024-02-21 182758.png]
>> If you can help me figure this out, I'd be more than happy to write 
>> documentation related to this example for Project Chrono.
>> On Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 5:45:41 PM UTC-6 T-Lind wrote:
>>
>>> "the "nothing seems to work" means that the rotating axis is not 
>>> matching your expectations?" - Correct
>>>
>>> My assembly goes from looking like this:
>>> [image: Screenshot 2024-02-21 173829.png]
>>> to this distorted figure:
>>> [image: Screenshot 2024-02-21 173917.png]
>>> I'm not entirely sure how to display link frames or the CoG, even after 
>>> looking around for it. And I did look at quite a few of the Pychrono demos 
>>> (particularly the ones involving motors), but they all seem to use an 
>>> outdated version and many do not work. In this 
>>> <https://github.com/T-Lind/chrono-sim/blob/master/rigid_bodies.py> 
>>> program I made, a ball is thrown at a cylinder, knocking it over.
>>> [image: Screenshot 2024-02-21 174115.png]
>>> Are there any up-to-date resources you'd recommend looking at (using 
>>> PyChrono, preferably)? I want to avoid wasting your time here.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 2:26:24 PM UTC-6 [email protected] 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi T-Lind,
>>>> the "nothing seems to work" means that the rotating axis is not 
>>>> matching your expectations?
>>>> Can you show a picture? Maybe one with CoG drawing enabled, one with 
>>>> Link frames enabled?
>>>>
>>>> Why don't you try with something simpler first? Without many rotations 
>>>> in between?
>>>> We also have plenty of demos that surely cover also this simple example.
>>>>
>>>> Dario
>>>>
>>>> Il giorno mercoledì 21 febbraio 2024 alle 03:58:21 UTC+1 T-Lind ha 
>>>> scritto:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully this isn't too much trouble, I'm just getting into Project 
>>>>> Chrono.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using PyChrono and am testing out this program here 
>>>>> <https://github.com/T-Lind/chrono-sim/blob/master/motor_assembly.py> (the 
>>>>> STEP file is small so I committed it to GitHub). It's just a simple test, 
>>>>> but I'm trying to get the shaft to rotate along the same cylindrical axis 
>>>>> of the motor.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried a bunch of different configurations, but nothing seems to 
>>>>> work. Any help would be appreciated!
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>

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