Hi Ruochun,

Thank you for your reply! I have a question about the clump. Do the 
particles in a clump interact with each other via any force model?

Thank you,
Weigang

On Monday, May 20, 2024 at 10:26:03 PM UTC+8 Ruochun Zhang wrote:

> Hi Weigang,
>
> Yes. Again,  DEME only cares about the position and radius of the initial 
> spheres, so you can supply it however you want. If you have a file that 
> records this information using your own format, then the easiest thing is 
> to have your own C++ or Python script that reads it into arrays and then 
> feeds them to the solver. If your file shares the format with DEME's 
> standard clump output file, or your file is simply the output of 
> *WriteClumpFile*, then you can conveniently load clump positions and 
> orientations by *ReadClumpXyzFromCsv *and *ReadClumpQuatFromCsv *(examples 
> are in GRCPrep_Part1 and 2). Note that currently, sphere radius cannot be 
> read from standard clump output files since it's part of the clump template 
> information thus not in the clump output.
>
> Thank you,
> Ruochun
>
> On Monday, May 20, 2024 at 12:56:56 PM UTC+8 weigan...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I would like to generate a block which consists of a assembly spheres. Is 
>> it possible to generate the block by other code, and then load it into 
>> DEM-Engine via a file containg the informations (such as position and 
>> radius) of the spheres?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Weigang
>>
>

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